Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s , the annual programmes produced by both the Partnership and Programme Authorities were in many respects not substantially different from those produced a decade earlier . |
| 3 | The later recognition analyses are unlike those used in the previous two studies where relationships between risk and recognition sensitivity were explored within individual junctions . |
| 4 | John Hitchin of Phoenix Bookshops was among several respondents to comment that ‘ customers were definitely treating books as gifts ’ . |
| 5 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 6 | It is well known that the substantial cost of re-equipping the many US registered airliners with electronic digital flight data recorders was behind this opposition . |
| 7 | Car Wars is in this tradition . |
| 8 | ‘ We know the rather negative condition reports ’ , says Filedt Kok , ‘ but the painting 's overall impact and its enhancement of the museum 's Rembrandt holdings is of more importance to us . |
| 9 | Section 222 provides that accounting records are at all times to be open for inspection by officers of the company . |
| 10 | It is also worth overcoming an approach to computer-aided historical research which assumes that the complexities inherent in disambiguating and interpreting fuzzy information and of representing idiosyncratic data types are at all unique to history . |
| 11 | So neither plant owners nor instrumentation makers are at all keen to report on RFI problems that could later be used against them in legal proceedings . |
| 12 | Spelling rules are of little help , because if they are thorough enough to explain a pattern , they 're likely to be incomprehensible to the children . |
| 13 | The specially prepared Walk For Life sponsorship forms are in this issue of the journal . |
| 14 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 15 | Balance sheets are usually produced for each account , but the operating accounts are in much more detail : the General Fund will be segregated into , for example , education , public health , roads . |
| 16 | And some dreams , I 'm not saying Katherine 's is , I 'm sure it is n't , but , but some people , some people 's anxiety dreams are of that kind . |
| 17 | in part this reflects the fact that occupational skill levels are of such a low order that they present no real requirement for educational preparation . |
| 18 | Mutual benefit societies were in many ways the forerunners of building societies . |
| 19 | The CNAA 's Charter required the degrees it approved to be ‘ comparable ’ with those of universities , and the General Committee — and Council itself — thought that two-year degrees would stretch the interpretation too far : students would be under too much strain , and British degree courses were in any case already shorter than in most other countries . |
| 20 | Kit Kats were about all I could afford . |
| 21 | P-waves can be transmitted through any material ( sound waves are of this type ) , but S-waves can only be transmitted through solids . |
| 22 | The offices of Lord Warden , Ranger , and other Forest offices were in most cases abolished , and compensation allowed by the Acts to the holders . |
| 23 | Areas that emit most acid precursors are among those which suffer the most acid deposition , but only long-range transport of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen from these sources can explain acid rain experienced at locations remote from significant pollution sources . |
| 24 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 25 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 26 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 27 | The forest routes are in many ways ideal for these activities because ( a ) there is little or no motor traffic , ( b ) the tracks are well maintained , and ( c ) the trees provide shelter . |
| 28 | The ANC described the moves as " window dressing " , noting that none of the generals named in allegations of police excesses and assassination squads were among those removed . |
| 29 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 30 | Whitehall vigorously denied that the British security forces were in any way connected with the bank raid . |