Example sentences of "[det] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that comments like that are music to your ears ? |
| 2 | A lot of things you remember like that are moments of desolation . |
| 3 | And often we are the people who embroider it and overbear it with all the complications ent that that are that are part of it . |
| 4 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 5 | The most immediate examples of this are ones in which the imposed density variations are entirely vertical ; as in Chapter 22 , this implies that any motion is the consequence of instability of the rest configuration . |
| 6 | And allied to this are concerns about ‘ not getting the results ’ and about one 's reputation with colleagues in general , and especially with the senior staff whose opinion can make or break a career . |
| 7 | Overlaid on this are strands of sexual politics as the strike allows women to take greater responsibilities . |
| 8 | Lurking behind this are views about law and about the family . |
| 9 | Allied to this are views about the limited efficacy of law . |
| 10 | Schemes like this are part of the £23 billion |
| 11 | The exceptions to this are relatives of the nautilus , the squid and the octopus . |
| 12 | Beneath this are bowls of the same shape and construction , but increasingly greater diameters . |
| 13 | Next to this are heaps of coal and a conveyor cantilevered out over the river . |
| 14 | Examples of this are courses in accident and emergency , neuromedical and neurosurgical nursing or ophthalmic nursing . |
| 15 | Some are calls to each other ; some to the gringo . |
| 16 | Some are casulties of war , others the victims of terrorist attack . |
| 17 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |
| 18 | But some are north to south which confuse things . |
| 19 | But some are north to south which confuse things . |
| 20 | Two of his daughters , Ella and her sister Eva , became Salvation Army officers and of his thirty three grandchildren some are ministers in the free churches , most are Salvationists and one is the General . |
| 21 | Some are members of the CND , others of the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons . |
| 22 | But some are gluttons for punishment . |
| 23 | Some of the following are invented examples , for language teaching or grammatical analysis , and some are pieces of language which were actually used to communicate . |
| 24 | Some are heaps of stones in a number of characteristic shapes , dating back a thousand years or more . |
| 25 | I am on medication for high blood pressure ; could this be part of the problem ? |
| 26 | Oh would this be sort of formal would the p other person be dressed in sort of black clothes or Aha . |
| 27 | Examples of this were discussions of population growth which made no mention of birth control and figures on the distribution of the sexes through occupations which were offered without explanation or analysis . [ … ] |
| 28 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 29 | Added to all this were wrangles over the Community Budget and the Common Agricultural Policy together with the protective responses which followed in the wake of the oil price recessions of the 1970s and growing foreign competition . |
| 30 | On the one side of this were portraits of Wilson , Cathery , Chambers and Plimsoll . |