Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian challenged the Prime Minister to comment on the increase , and he answered that the chairman must be worth that salary . |
| 2 | Could it be worth this pain ? |
| 3 | Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size |
| 4 | Locust , locust beans they 'd be about that length , they used to be just like a brown bean , they were dry . |
| 5 | Julia was horrified , thinking that the last thing David 's mother would want to hear just then would be about another woman 's wish to be with her husband . |
| 6 | It would be during this period that those first stirrings of mental activity in the mind of primitive man which were ruthless evolution , were having a profound effect on the development of his mind , long before he was able to give practical effect to them . |
| 7 | Yeah could be off this pork farm , oh no he 'd kee he 'd breed partridge not pheasant would n't he ? |
| 8 | If Fen thought she had no other attachments , she 'd be off this boat in double quick time . |
| 9 | But there is no reason for the Community to get involved in employment legislation , which must be for each country to decide for itself . |
| 10 | There would be erm the possibility of the unitary authorities themselves getting together to prepare joint structure plans , so in as , as , instead of having a joint authority with er members joining in , in one committee to oversee the preparation of the plan , there would be individual authorities er working to their own committees with members er operating separately , but preparing through that mechanism a joint structure plan and the third option would be for each authority itself to prepare a unitary development plan , incorporating both strategic policies and the sorts of policies that we are currently seeing and familiar with in local plans . |
| 11 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |
| 12 | Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide . |
| 13 | What would be more difficult would be for each group to resist both poles of power ( management and union ) and not become a caucus or adjunct of either . |
| 14 | Will he consider conducting an inquiry into what the optimum pupil-teacher ratio should be for each age of children , because that ratio will differ ? |
| 15 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 16 | What possible justification could there be for such coldness ? |
| 17 | Oh , would be for that sort of money yeah |
| 18 | What will it be for that clef ? |
| 19 | What all ( bar for some reason ‘ Memorial ’ Vol. 1 ) have in common is the inclusion of takes from the now-famous November 26th 1945 quintet session which represents for jazz — and bebop in particular — something akin to what Woodstock would later be for another generation ( but without the audience participation ) . |
| 20 | It wo n't be for another month . |
| 21 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 22 | A good theorist should be aware of the weaknesses in his theory , and his prime advocacy will be for more imagination in examining the issues involved and better experimentation wherever possible . |
| 23 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 24 | If the latter , can it be for any offence or only for a serious one , and is the offence in the problem sufficiently serious ? |
| 25 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 26 | I think there has always got to be for any executive — and for any employee for that matter — new challenges , new frontiers to keep them enthused . |
| 27 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 28 | Whilst we ask you to make regular monthly repayments , these can be for any sum from 1/10th to 1/25th of your borrowing limit to suit your pocket , and you can change the amount at any time . |
| 29 | His debt did not have to be less than £20 ; it could be for any amount . |
| 30 | You 're growing up , yes , but you 're not grown-up and you wo n't be for some time , and in the meantime you 're still my girl . |