Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |
| 2 | The Foreign Secretary he had appointed only six months previously , had for some weeks been as exhausted in health as he had become weak on Italian sanctions . |
| 3 | Some ideas are as follows : the first team to have everyone sat on the floor , first team to have everyone standing on one leg . |
| 4 | Have you noticed how well-prepared some individuals are when they answer the phone and how others are ill-prepared , as though they never receive calls ? |
| 5 | Some possibilities are as follows : |
| 6 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 7 | As to economic support , one noticeable difference in the circumstances within the former Soviet Union over the past few weeks is that the price of a liberalisation programme has been put in place . |
| 8 | What was surprising in some ways was that the RHA did decide to act . |
| 9 | The thinking in some quarters is that Intel Corp 's Pentium , if and when it does finally arrive , will be priced at $795 for the 60MHz species and $995 for the 66MHz . |
| 10 | Thinking in some quarters is that Intel Corp 's Pentium , if and when it does arrive , will be priced at $795 for the 60MHz species and $995 for the 66MHz . |
| 11 | The feeling of some councillors was that the accompanying contract was somewhat ‘ one-sided ’ . |
| 12 | The reason there have been few accidents is that the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it and both Scorton residents and the many visitors to the area are denied pedestrian access to the village . |
| 13 | Some faces are as yet absent … |
| 14 | The great advantage of such institutions is that they fit you for prison conditions . |
| 15 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 16 | Throughout his premiership the diagnosis from such authorities was that Mr Major should not place too much emphasis on low taxes , and should ‘ distance himself ’ from Thatcherism . |
| 17 | A standard objection to such views is that these general principles often clash one with one another as necessary truths could not . |
| 18 | Nothing can prevent people from saying that the answers he gave were not ‘ adult or ‘ fundamental ’ , but it should be obvious that such adjectives are as culture biased as Saruman 's ‘ real ’ : by themselves they express only the prejudices of the user . |
| 19 | One of the good things about such clubs is that they offer a range of courses , so that , having mastered the basics , you can progress to a more advanced level . |
| 20 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 21 | The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the ‘ Mink on Shetland ’ presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages . |
| 22 | A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance . |
| 23 | The problem with such lists is that they do not specify any order . |
| 24 | Although one object of having such ministries is that they can deal with problems in a manner specially suited to conditions in Scotland and Wales , the fact that the ministers belong to the UK Cabinet and are responsible to the UK Parliament means that there is considerable pressure for uniformity . |
| 25 | The great problem however with such books is that their information dates very quickly . |
| 26 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 27 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 28 | It 's difficult to evaluate how successful such co-ops are but many do seem to gain work on a fairly reasonable basis for their members , and they are certainly worth considering . |
| 29 | As we discuss in Chapter 6 , a better way to envisage such imperatives is as latent : waiting , as it were , to be activated by the social and political relations and contexts in which people are living . |
| 30 | The beauty of such gardens is that they are not dependent on scale for their success . |