Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 2 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 3 | ( It should be noted in passing that the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts are of little relevance here . |
| 4 | The following hardy green manures are among those most suitable for autumn sowing . |
| 5 | No counsel appearing on this appeal has attempted to defend those findings of fact or suggest that the reasons are in any way adequate . |
| 6 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 7 | Balance sheets are usually produced for each account , but the operating accounts are in much more detail : the General Fund will be segregated into , for example , education , public health , roads . |
| 8 | ‘ Audited accounts are in any event only one of the sources of information which a prudent banker takes into account . |
| 9 | Now we know why Labour policies are in such a mess . |
| 10 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 11 | A character with Metallurgy will know of the adulteration , one with Numismatics will know the coins are worth less than face value . |
| 12 | Cobra effigies and icons are in most part multicephalous , that is possessing three , five , seven or sometimes nine heads , always an odd number . |
| 13 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 14 | The geographical nature of the North-East dictates that the vast majority of North-East based national football reporters gravitate to Newcastle and Sunderland on a daily basis because the clubs are in such close proximity . |
| 15 | The toilets are on that way . |
| 16 | Organic vegetables are of little use if their leaves are yellowing , their vitamins and minerals long departed . |
| 17 | The first version suggests that women can gain authority by using men 's linguistic strategies , while the second is more sceptical about this ; linguistic strategies are after all chosen within particular social contexts and relations . |
| 18 | But while some of these cases are of this simple kind , others are more directly involved with modern market conditions , whether as a form of investment or as a form of prestige advertising . |
| 19 | His ‘ invention ’ , like that of hobbits , has been well-chronicled by Humphrey Carpenter ( Biography , pp. 64 and 172 ) ; the two cases are in several ways similar . |
| 20 | An abstract reaction mechanism , where the chemical reactions are at most second order and give a detailed mass balance when the system is closed , can be reduced to the system [ 40 ] : ( 2.5 ) unc The unc are concentrations of reactants that are held constant , giving an open system , and the hi are rate constants : thus the a and the hi are positive . |
| 21 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 22 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 23 | Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind . |
| 24 | Perhaps the comics are in this category too , not merely ‘ rubbish ’ but collections of rampantly-bad jokes and celebrations of poor taste . |
| 25 | They find that unhappy childhoods are behind many difficulties in later life . |
| 26 | Erm in Plato talks about the , the weaving together of forms and it says erm er it 's it 's er through the weaving together of forms that reason arises in us and but then again this is the level of as well so I think that this is the , the origin of this notion that all the forms are in each , they 're all woven together somehow . |
| 27 | The specially prepared Walk For Life sponsorship forms are in this issue of the journal . |
| 28 | The only parts of the experimental area where there are no facilities for cyclists are in those residential streets that are sufficiently lightly and slowly trafficked as to constitute no danger to cyclists sharing the roadway with cars . |
| 29 | If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ? |
| 30 | ( 8 ) Estates , interests and charges in or over land which are not legal estates are in this Act referred to as " equitable interests , " and powers which by this Act are to operate only in equity are in this Act referred to as " equitable powers " . |