Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose now that each player believes that the other 's preferences are as in the first game . |
| 2 | The object sought to be achieved in construing any commercial contract is to ascertain what the mutual intentions of the parties were as to the legal obligations each assumed by the contractual words in which they chose to express them ( Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 1030 ) . |
| 3 | An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues . |
| 4 | The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on . |
| 5 | One disadvantage of this to all parties is that over a long period memories fade and evidence becomes more difficult to establish . |
| 6 | One argument for common investment funds is that at the moment they provide a way of getting round the narrow and wider investment bands that dictate charity investment . |
| 7 | A second assertion of monetarists is that in the absence of government intervention in the economy , there will be an automatic tendency towards the ‘ natural rate of unemployment ’ — that is , ‘ the level of unemployment which has the property that it is consistent with equilibrium in the structure of real wage rates ’ . |
| 8 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 9 | And the reason so many stagewise guitarists tend to prefer valves is because of their ability to follow , in a particularly human way , the dynamics of the music being fed into them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On a macro scale , this is of course how Blacks were and to a large extent are still viewed : as a disruptive , damaging force disturbing the previously calm , stable landscape of cultural superiority . |
| 12 | One of the conclusions that can be drawn from the responses is that despite the increased provision of online information services by a range of organisations including Aberdeen City library , the Scottish Council and others , the level of awareness and potential of such information sources is still low . |
| 13 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 14 | The difference between the two countries is that in Britain such sources are primary sources , and in the United States , the primary source is the written document . |
| 15 | One of his largest monuments is that to Thomas , first Earl of Coventry , in the church at Elmley Castle , Hereford and Worcester , of about 1700 , which fills the height of the transept The earl ( in contemporary dress as was usual with Stanton ) is bewigged , and reclines comfortably , elbow on a cushion , with his coronet beside him . |
| 16 | The main drawback of such workings was that by their very nature they were of only limited duration . |
| 17 | The reason , I suspect , that the postmodern avant-garde of the 1920s did not have greater social effects was because of a delinkage or desynchronization of the cultural and the social . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 20 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 21 | An easy way to remember this for making calculations is that in two colours each square is one BIT . |
| 22 | The most ambitious of the three catalogues is that from Brussels , which includes art from Pole to Pole . |
| 23 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 24 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 25 | While the general behaviour of some dogs on the beach can be a cause for concern , the main reason why they are banned from some beaches and other public places is because of the danger of contamination by their excrement . |
| 26 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 27 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 28 | The only paragraphs in Section 2 which does allow any exemption for individuals is that concerning emigres who " although of Russian blood " had " not been in USSR since 1930 " prior to their " joining the German forces " . |
| 29 | It is possible that the closure of the efficacy gap at four weeks was because of the reduction in dosage in the prednisolone group , but also because fluticasone propionate acted more slowly . |
| 30 | Sociologically the difference between working and middle classes was that between servant-keepers and potential servants , and was so used in Seebohm Rowntree 's pioneer social survey of York at the end of the century . |