Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right .
2 The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation .
3 The qualities that are disapproved of are ones they do n't think they have , or consider that they keep under control .
4 The only place I could think of was Stonehenge which must have been spanking new then and as up to date as a Hilton or an out-of-town Sainsburys .
5 The other criteria I I I I tend to agree with are matters which are capable of being weighing and balancing against each other and they are not overriding , but I think those three matter which I specified are overriding and would rule out any location .
6 ‘ The first thing to remember is that 99 per cent of the people you come into contact with are people whom you do n't have to worry about at all .
7 Determined to let Rune 's volatile lover know the truth — that , far from being lovers themselves , she and Rune were nothing more than strangers linked by a common family crisis — she began firmly , ‘ Look , Lotta — there 's something you should know .
8 The only thing is another old place that in was Auchentipple There used to be a chapel there and it was called the Hunt Chapel , but it 's just a hunt now .
9 We 're integrating with respect to T so it 's going to be K it 's not going to be K X it 's K
10 They tend to be loners who dream big dreams , but they are conscientious , hard working , clever and get up early — is this you ? !
11 These tend to be prisoners who are a problem for the discipline staff , either because they are excessively violent or because they are suicidal .
12 There are certain to be cases which do not fall within these guidelines , and these will cause problems until such time as " case law " has been established .
13 As with other effort to make an impact , if you want to be success you must have substance in your message .
14 In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic .
15 I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them .
16 My problems are precisely the same as my father 's , but the climate 's different now : in those days , people who had large houses were thought to be plutocrats who ran society , the Establishment if you like .
17 so we 've got , if we do give them work to do it 's got to be stuff which they do n't feel inadequate to do .
18 The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins .
19 ‘ I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances ’ ( Phil .
20 Henry 's defection to the charms of the nursing profession had finally made up Rosemary 's mind for her , and from now on it was going to be Hank-from-Texas who occupied all her thoughts .
21 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
22 One 's going to be shape I 've got a lot of material to go on it , we have n't made the backing .
23 His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity .
24 Now you 've er , you 've defined what you think is , what you consider to be Marxism which is the political aim , the strategy and of course within your definition er it 's so easy to er make a definition which suits your premise that er the Chinese Party was not Marxist .
25 This is not a very convincing solution , since most readers do n't feel that this a dramatic monologue , and take the ‘ I ’ of the poem to be Wordsworth himself .
26 Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself .
27 For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state .
28 One of your writers actually says : ‘ If there is to be government somebody has to pay for it . ’
29 If there is to be government somebody has to pay for it .
30 He says there are obviously going to be officers who query the reason for it , but they do n't have all the facts as they magistrates do .
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