Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere .
2 Now on one occasion , as I say this is a conglomerate this is of several things put together , but one happened rather like this .
3 While the ideal perhaps remains the appointment of full-time professional librarians with a dual teaching qualification , at present this is for most schools in most LEAs a pipe dream .
4 This is in many ways an easier , more convenient option , than the individual taking complete responsibility for her actions .
5 This is in some ways a departure for many house churches which have been strongly pastoral in emphasis .
6 Although this is by any standards a grotesquely over-simplified account of hundreds of pages , it brings out the attitude which Althusser contests — the idea that Marx 's theory of political economy is just an alternative to the classical one , in that crucial experiments can be devised to adjudicate between them .
7 This was in many cases brief and some departmental reports were skipped through with little comment being made .
8 But this was in many ways a blessing .
9 In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers .
10 This was in some ways just as dramatic as that of the 1980s , if only because of the very large warships — and their great number — being deployed in the area .
11 Article 10 is in these terms :
12 Sir Denys had little doubt that the coming months seem set to be as difficult as 1991 was for most countries , ‘ It would not be prudent at this stage to attempt to predict when recovery might begin ’ , he said , ‘ But when it comes , it is very likely to be gradual ’ .
13 The new paragraphs 30 and 31 are in these terms :
14 These are of several types but predominantly of the circular tumulus design with its stone base and decorative cornice ( 80 and 84 ) .
15 These are in many ways ideal , since they aim at comprehensiveness , are arranged in classified order , and give a good deal of information with each entry .
16 Yet , compared with the literary censorship of the sixties , these were in most areas miniscule .
17 We travelled by train , CA to Manchester Piccadilly , and then on to York , on 158 's on both journeys .
18 The year 1975 was in all respects better for the Hesketh team .
19 Sara 's continued presence in the Lime Street cottage meant that he would inevitably return to Stowey , however briefly ; but his departure in the late summer of 1798 was in most senses final .
20 Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways .
21 These topics may all be within some children 's experience .
22 And they had a shop on Vale as well and a shop in erm on , big s store on Road at but that was the Cop , independent Coop you see , like they all were in those days , the Coop , the Coop and so on , had a Coop , had a Coop , had a Coop at er , they 've all had three shops .
23 Where the issue of assessment and examining in the arts becomes problematical is in those instances where the justification can be seen to be overtly influenced by external factors .
24 The latter is in some cases subject to statutory regulation , in others it is a matter of local discretion .
25 July 1981 was by any standards a trying and testing month .
26 If I pull my jumper off like that be like that dresses .
27 The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems .
28 Section 8 is in these terms :
29 The only sites where some time dependence of the blockages was apparent was for those derivatives with a pendant intercalator ( 2 , 3 , 5 and 6 ; Figures 2 and 3 ) .
30 The substituted section 9 is in these terms :
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