Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 2 | On the next day , he had to appear again before the Emperor and was given a pair of white gloves to put on before he took the Royal pulse ; he pronounced His Majesty to be in good health , which pleased the Emperor . |
| 3 | There are further work opportunities on the horizon in Kuwait , where Wimpey expects the future to be in joint ventures . |
| 4 | ‘ We expect the majority of our turnover to be from overseas markets , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Potential hardrock sources , associated with basic igneous rocks , do not have sufficiently high concentrations to be of commercial interest at present . |
| 6 | Kepler Wessels , the South African captain , has said , somewhat surprisingly , that he considers the one-day series and the Test to be of equal importance . |
| 7 | Sadly , Stirling gave orders for much of the equipment to be off loaded and sent back to Kabrit . |
| 8 | The pavement-quality concrete apron allows cargo to be off loaded directly to the terminal , thus enabling operational speed . |
| 9 | Within the framework established by the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 for the head teacher to be in overall control of discipline in a school ( taking account of the governors ' policy on discipline ) , the law is content to allow teachers much discretion in the enforcement of school rules and application of sanctions . |
| 10 | ‘ It was no place to be in high summer . ’ |
| 11 | There was no lovelier place to be in fine weather , and we also rejoiced in the rain , because rain equalled kilowatts . |
| 12 | " Whoever could be listening ? " cried Clara loudly , knowing that Geoffrey A. Machin and Peter Hawtrey had cut Geography in order to do just that , and the other girls clucked and murmured and veiled themselves , thinking such deliberate flouting of the conspiracy of shame to be in doubtful taste . |
| 13 | In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault . |
| 14 | The following possibilities of choral orchestration are limited to the most-used textures ; traditional forms such as fugato , fugue , and canon are omitted , being too closely identified stylistically with past epochs to be of effective use today ( though some mention of them will be made later ) . |
| 15 | Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) . |
| 16 | It was , however , open to the plaintiff to be in deliberate breach of the contract in order to ‘ cut his losses ’ commercially . |
| 17 | The boundaries of labourism and its location within the working class need to be re examined . |
| 18 | His evident need to be in constant pursuit spoke frustration to Wishart who suspected that Minton was never sexually fulfilled . |
| 19 | Horses which have a day off per week and stand in need to be in loose boxes ( stables ) |
| 20 | You will find your professional abilities to be in constant demand and you will be directly concerned with the provision of services . |
| 21 | The Oxford Archaeological Unit has stated the site to be of limited interest and have said that a full excavation would suffice to investigate it . |
| 22 | Monasteries , hopeful of future gain , could frequently have preferred their entrants to be from wealthy families . |
| 23 | By demanding proof of guilt to be beyond reasonable doubt we accept that some accused who are probably guilty will be nonetheless acquitted . |
| 24 | A more likely explanation is that , seeing that the Germans had vanished overnight from the field of Gumbinnen he judged his outnumbered foe to be in full retreat , either to the fortress city of Konigsberg or over the Vistula . |
| 25 | An empowering statute will often frame the jurisdictional requirement in the following terms : if the Secretary of State has reasonable cause to believe , for example , a person to be of hostile origin , he may imprison him . |
| 26 | It was good for Anna to be with other children , yet to have Christine there too . |
| 27 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 28 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 29 | These plans may propose training programmes in either the national priority areas , or in areas considered by an LEA to be of local priority . |
| 30 | She has always considered people to be of prime importance no matter how elevated her position . |