Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization . |
| 2 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 3 | I am in many senses neither asleep nor awake . |
| 4 | ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures . |
| 5 | Never for the future come near me when I am in these tumults unless I send for you . |
| 6 | Mr President brothers , sisters , and friends I know I 'm amongst many friends here . |
| 7 | I 'm against some sorts of professionalization , but it would be silly to think that the university should have nothing to do with any profession . |
| 8 | I 'm in some ways surprised the non-political groups want to affiliate with with the party . |
| 9 | As an Anglo-Scot , with a Scottish father and an English mother , I suppose I 'm in both camps . |
| 10 | His is in some ways a tragic case : a man of immense talent and massive erudition , gifted with profound insights , who could not say the things he most wanted to say but who , nevertheless , has gone on to say them . |
| 11 | I was above such things . |
| 12 | I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship . |
| 13 | Last week , when I was in that ceramics export place , I found some photographs under a file in my boss 's desk . |
| 14 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 15 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 16 | I wish I was in those bars tonight . ’ |
| 17 | Each quotation describes a journey in a carriage taken by the protagonists of works which are in many cases those whose titles bear their names : Emma , Madame Bovary , Clarissa , etc . |
| 18 | Selling old books , which are in many cases out of date , has raised £41.64 for the Cancer Relief MacMillan Fund . |
| 19 | It is perhaps hard to see what Picasso found to admire that was common to both tribal sculpture and the work of Cézanne , two arts which are in many ways diametrically opposed . |
| 20 | The country is divided into thirty-two states which are in many respects self-governing , with laws differing from state to state , although all are subject to the national federal law . |
| 21 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 22 | It lumps together subjects which are in some ways profoundly dissimilar , and erodes distinctions which may in themselves be significant not only conceptually but in terms of policy . |
| 23 | More recently we have bond ( that is , fixed-interest funds ) designed to maximise and maintain income levels , and cash funds which are in some ways an alternative to bank or building society deposits , though they may produce a slightly higher return . |
| 24 | ( They may also have generated some demands by spreading the word about regimes and rules in the Northern Ireland prison system , which are in several respects more liberal than in England . ) |
| 25 | Not only was he going to be absolutely furious about her being in this police station , but she dreaded having to tell her cousin about it too . |
| 26 | Its incipit began with the prayer : ‘ Almighty Author and lover of peace , scatter the nations that delight in war , which is above all plagues injurious to books ’ . |
| 27 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
| 28 | One is the private sector , at the service of the governing and dominant class , which is to all intents and purposes closed to people who do not belong to the upper class . |
| 29 | When the political and economic imagination is confronted by the economic success of an example which is in many respects an alternative to those Pacific cases , typified here by reference to Sweden , the implicit choices really do become quite evident . |
| 30 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |