Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to find out where an image will be , it is only necessary to know were two of the rays go . |
| 2 | PETER MacLeod believes that an ability to communicate is one of his vital strengths . |
| 3 | The culture change we seek to secure is one of ensuring that our new arrangements are needs led rather than service driven . |
| 4 | The will and ability to stand is one of the most basic manifestations of the life-force , almost more basic than an interest in food and water . |
| 5 | The desired ratio of skull to muzzle is 3 to 2 . |
| 6 | Training within the home in an informal ‘ conference ’ situation greatly benefits the development of the awareness that time to listen is one of the greatest gifts we give to those we love . |
| 7 | It is your bad luck if the warren you choose to ferret is one of these . |
| 8 | Home visits were much appreciated when they happened but failure to visit was one of the more common and significant criticisms ( Cartwright , 1990b ) . |
| 9 | Yeah , cos all he needs to buy is two of them and he 's won ! |
| 10 | Triumphing against all odds and losing when it seems easier to win is one of Scotland 's most endearing faults . |
| 11 | What 's happening with Philip I do n't know whether Philip will be able I think what we 'll have to do is one of us will have to drive the Metro |
| 12 | What I tried to do was one of those |
| 13 | The ability to cry is one of nature 's ways of relieving stress and tension . |
| 14 | This puts in perspective the Department of Economic Development 's approach to community economic development , which has to date been one of employing outside consultants without sufficient consideration for the need of local input . |
| 15 | He is believed to have been one of two armed men who last month hijacked a police car , prompting a manhunt over three Irish counties . |
| 16 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 17 | A few months after his death , I was asked to act as editor of this bicentenary history of the Royal Veterinary College , and I am proud to have been one of the team that has produced a book which I hope does justice to the author and to the College . |
| 18 | No works of art were produced by Miss Wise , nor was she heard of again after 1918 ; she is believed to have been one of the victims of the influenza epidemic of that time . |
| 19 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 20 | Seppings , who used to say ‘ partial strength produces general weakness ’ , seems to have been one of the first Naval Architects to have a clear mental picture of the stress systems in a ship 's hull . |
| 21 | With a passionate love of the visual arts , an intelligent partner to guide her purchases , and a large income to spend on pretty much any picture she fancied , Queen Victoria ought to have been one of the most distinguished of all royal collectors . |
| 22 | The sitter seems to have been one of the more vapid society cocottes who sat for Vigee-Lebrun . |
| 23 | I was privileged to have been one of the 28 guests , which included 11 veterans of the Tirpitz raids , who were invaded to attend these events . |
| 24 | Kastri on Kythera seems to have been one of the earliest , if not the first , Minoan colony , and it was set up well before 2000 BC . |
| 25 | The Labyrinth at Knossos is generally recognized to have been one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world . |
| 26 | When , therefore , on 9 December 1949 , an amendment to the Military Aid Program bill proposed by the combined Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Armed Services sought to earmark the sum of $75 m. for what was eventually described as the ‘ general area of China ’ , in voting to cut the appropriation for the Military Assistance Program in half the House of Representatives may , as Acheson said , have been in one of its berserk moods ; but in order to save the Program , and its underpinning of the fledgling North Atlantic Alliance , Acheson was prepared to accept the amendment and , as he presents it , it seems to have been one of the easiest passages in that summer of difficult decisions . |
| 27 | From its first issue it identified itself as a coordinating centre for research in English studies , and indeed , the development of an identity based upon research for the discipline can be seen to have been one of its major functions . |
| 28 | In that historical sequence , some organisms , such as humans , have appeared only very recently , and their past ancestry seems to have been one of rapid and quite dramatic change . |
| 29 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 30 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |