Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it pay wages and provide working conditions which are or above the average of its locality ? |
| 2 | These conditions are that at no time during the relevant accounting reference period — ; |
| 3 | And the more obvious it is that I 'm the best , the more convinced they are that under the surface , in some subtler way that only a more discriminating critic would appreciate , they are … |
| 4 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 5 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 6 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 7 | They are that in the State of execution the execution of the Letter does not fall within the province of the judiciary ; and that the State addressed considers that its sovereignty or security would be prejudiced thereby . |
| 8 | What is more , because people 's short-term and long-term memories operate rather differently , they may well remember something quite different three days later : and the chances are that in the real marketplace it is the longer memory that matters . |
| 9 | The salient differences between these two applications are that in the second case the consultant , though independent of the course team , is known to be supportive and familiar with the background and context of the course under examination ; the quality of the consultant 's judgement is also known to most of the course team . |
| 10 | Love her or loathe her , odds are that in the bestseller stakes Lady Thatcher will be nudging Catherine Cookson all the way to Christmas . |
| 11 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 12 | The chances are that in an adult novel — certainly in Masefield 's sea-stories — this kind of instant personal illumination would have been avoided : the alternative , an allusive type of dialogue , would have shifted the emphasis from what is really authorial statement to an implied point of character . |
| 13 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 14 | The facts are that within a decade of the Vienna Congress , nationalism was gathering furious pace . |
| 15 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
| 16 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 17 | And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against . |
| 18 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 19 | A practical consequence of this relationship has been that from the late nineteenth century onwards managerially and technically trained personnel have been well represented on the boards of major German companies . |
| 20 | A variant theme in recent historiography has been that by the mid-ninth century , nobles had been too much influenced by the church 's stress on peace , and had thus become unfit for military service . |
| 21 | The suggestion had been that in the galleries |
| 22 | Finally , it may have been that before the Pleistocene , with its powerful glacial and periglacial denudation , the amount of gravel transferred to the sea by the rivers was much less , so that there was far less material from which the sea could build beaches . |
| 23 | The result has been that within the legal framework , policies have been chosen on an ad hoc basis . |
| 24 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 25 | The consultant needs to see the relatives as well as the patient and take time to explain what the treatment is for , what its effects are and about the side-effects . |
| 26 | Bought it , I do n't know one for sale now , you know , but for the price they are and for the rent it 's very reasonable . |
| 27 | The first two were Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak , ornate with fabulous wide-mouthed forest monsters and small plump boys fallling through the night devoured by dough . |
| 28 | I thought , maybe you are but at the same time |
| 29 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 30 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |