Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm and repeated instruction of the strike organisers was that passive resistance alone was to be used . |
| 2 | The photography alone is worth a couple of hours viewing . |
| 3 | The directors considered this , and decided that one payment only was in order because , although they could find evidence of the donation by the man , they could find no evidence of any donation by the horse . |
| 4 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 5 | oh mm cos one thing really gave the key away was in the , the sermon on the mount where Jesus said that the meek ought , ought to inherit the earth |
| 6 | The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 . |
| 7 | The recent debate concerning the role of RE in the new legislation of 1988 has shown how powerful this attitude towards religion still is among politicians , the church and the public at large . |
| 8 | The pope 's intention now was for a diet of princes to be convoked — to be chaired by a papal legate . |
| 9 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 10 | Rather they alert us to just how powerful female potency really is in our collective psyches , despite , and even because of , its long repression . |
| 11 | Her fingers were very long and slim , and her mouth really was like a rosebud . |
| 12 | More than half his mail now is from women . |
| 13 | Think about it , Aurora — decide whether your desire to hang on to the club really is for his sake — or yours . ’ |
| 14 | The , the opposition here is between the Lamarckians who are wrong , and think you can inherit er , an acquired callous from your ancestors , and the Darwinian who is right , who believes that callouses are related to natural selection . |
| 15 | Thus , the value of the firm is equal to the total value of its expected future stream of cash flows , discounted to take account of the ‘ time value of money ’ ( ’ a pound tomorrow is worth less than a pound today ’ ) and risk . |
| 16 | The key to the underlying tension here is in the line : ‘ Is it possible for the inmates to make the visitors understand what life is like for them without arousing the hostility of the Warden ? ’ |
| 17 | The reflectors , the mean here is at thirteen the average is thirteen they 're all slightly higher , so eighteen to twenty would be a very strong whereas the others have just come out fifteen to seventeen which is strong , you 've actually come out fairly strong there , because the highest score for anything is twenty . |
| 18 | This figure here is in effect what we would should be looking for per week . |
| 19 | The insulation here is into a soffit . |
| 20 | The intention here is to essay such an identification and therefore move beyond the empiricism with which the Localities programme has been charged . |
| 21 | Ah the professor here 's from er the Newfoundland University studied all the dialects in Great Britain . |
| 22 | Anyone who wishes to contribute must catch the Chairman 's eye and the usual practice then is for the Chairman to call on the persons in the order in which he has seen them . |
| 23 | A spiral closing anticlockwise is in pain . |
| 24 | Nithard does so , however , while the author of a curious single annal for 830 – 1 , tacked onto the Prior Metz Annals ( the last entry otherwise was for 805 ) makes Judith the central figure in the story , and explains the 830 rebellion in terms of her stepsons ' hostility to her and her " very goodlooking son Charles " who " they feared might succeed as heir in his father 's realm " . |
| 25 | But he saw that Scottish football too was on the decline and blamed the system of promotion and relegation introduced into the Scottish League in 1921 . |
| 26 | The primary effect of the nodal description above is of inaccessibility to the reader . |
| 27 | At that time , the principal manufacture locally was of lace . |
| 28 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 29 | 'P' — if a primary run only is to be done , |
| 30 | 'S ' — if a secondary run only is to be done or |