Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Included in protection are methods for detecting likely hazard events and in warning those likely to be affected . |
| 2 | In the crossing cupola are mosaics of the Christ Pantocrator with four angels around him . |
| 3 | The Isles of the Blessed , the Chinese Isles of Orchids and their peach blossom spring , such ideas as Eldorado , Shangri La , heaven , nirvana are examples of this need . |
| 4 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 5 | Section 682 provides that income arising under a settlement shall be deemed not to have been distributed if and to the extent that it exceeds the aggregate of : ( i ) the sums , excluding all payments of interest , paid in that year by the trustees of the settlement to any persons ( not being a body corporate connected with the settlement and not being the trustees of another settlement made by the settlor or the trustees of the settlement ) in such manner that they fall to be treated in that year , otherwise than by virtue of s677 above , as the income of those persons for the purposes of income tax , or would fall to be so treated if those persons were domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and the sums had been paid to them there ; and ( ii ) subject to s682(2)– ( 5 ) ( rules for ascertaining undistributed income where interest is paid by trustees ) any expenses of the trustees of the settlement paid in that year which , in the absence of any express provision of the settlement , would be properly chargeable to income , in so far as such expenses are not included in the sums mentioned in para ( i ) above ; and ( iii ) in a case where the trustees of the settlement are trustees for charitable purposes , the amount by which any income arising under the settlement in that year in respect of which exemption from tax may be granted under s505 of TA 1988 exceeds the aggregate amount of any such sums or expenses as aforesaid paid in that year which are properly chargeable to that income . |
| 6 | Clean air and defence are examples of public goods . |
| 7 | Broadly speaking the struggles of social classes to reproduce the material conditions of their existence are part of , but not exhaustive of , civil society . |
| 8 | As regards the latter , some of the most mobile in the British case are workers in personal services ; those , for example , seeking work in the catering trades . |
| 9 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 10 | The women in this case are suspects in their own right , especially if we take notice of that boy , though from what you–say I ca n't see Anna 's mother hauling herself up on the scaffolding behind Benson 's , or making a run for it when the boy turned up . ’ |
| 11 | Venison , duck , lamb , steaks and seafood are specialities of the house . |
| 12 | One of the latest to succeed in that direction are Harlequins with the announcement of help to the tune of £350,000 over the next four seasons from Flowering Original , an offshoot of the Whitbread beer company , which already sponsors the Welsh Heineken Leagues . |
| 13 | That is : given characteristics are attributed to the entire population of Shetlanders and to the entire population of incomers : any differences which exist within the category are differences in degree of applicability . |
| 14 | Coexisting within this category are people with a middle-class inheritance of culture and resources , coexisting beside others ( including many managers , teachers and social workers ) who owe their social advancement to state education and to state-sponsored growth schools , health services and local authorities . |
| 15 | This implies the recognition and the self-centredness of addictive disease and the denial of its existence and of its consequences by the sufferer are forms of insanity . |
| 16 | One takes the point , whilst insisting that scrupulosity and rigour are matters of means not ends . |
| 17 | consistency and persistence are watchwords in early learning , especially with certain volatile ( hyperactive ) children who find it difficult to concentrate for long enough to absorb life 's lessons . |
| 18 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 19 | CONTINUITY AND CHANGE are features of every political system . |
| 20 | All the men that appear in the play are part of a circle of friends , situated in Venice . |
| 21 | Among other things he gets off his chest are opinions about contemporaries : Bob Appleyard could be ‘ quite nasty and overbearing ’ , Ray Illingworth was ‘ selfish ’ but often helpful , John Edrich was ‘ a little stirrer off the field ’ , Geoff Arnold ‘ moaned incessantly ’ on tour , and Geoff Boycott was the ‘ most selfish , egotistical individual I have ever met ’ . |
| 22 | On the next level are classrooms for conductor-trainees , offices and a sitting/buffet area , which has to cope with an international mix of families , visitors , students , staff and conductors . |
| 23 | Farther into the light at gallery level are sculptures of those who helped build the cathedral : Charles IV , his mother , his third and fourth wives and his son , the two architects including the self-portrait of Peter Parler , the master masons and three archbishops . |
| 24 | Thru reveals that many structuralist theories of narrative are simulacra of the story we have all internalized of the constitution of subjectivity through the reification of women . |
| 25 | Lurking behind their response are images of RE reflecting past experience : " dull " , " irrelevant " , " soft option " , " load of nonsense " , " dangerous — trying to get at people " , " morals and all that " , " a training in prejudice " , " an anachronism in the modern world " , " the odd one out in schools " , " to do with the God squad " . |
| 26 | But it remains prone to generalizations : ‘ we share a common root as women … capitalism , imperialism and racism are symptoms of male supremacy — sexism ’ ( 1970 : xxix , xxxix ) . |
| 27 | You and some other Members of Parliament are residents of Westminster . |
| 28 | Corded , cordless and even gas-powered guns are now sold , and the advantages for the user are speed of setting time and convenience . |
| 29 | The best leaves for smoking are things like oak or beech . |
| 30 | The programmes for positive discrimination in favour of ‘ sub-species ’ such as women or blacks and the demand for legislation to ban smoking are mirror-images of the eugenics movement . |