Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman residence of the pope from the time of the Emperor Constantine had always been the Lateran and before Innocent 's time there was only a temporary residence at St Peter 's . |
| 2 | Since the publication in 1932 of Berle and Means ' study of American capitalism , The Modern Corporation and Private Property , it has been the orthodoxy that in the majority of large public companies managements have escaped effective shareholder control . |
| 3 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 4 | Even so , it seems evidently to have been the case that before Stalingrad the voicing of direct criticism of the person of the Führer and his leadership was a rarity . |
| 5 | Perhaps the only heartening aspect of the whole Gulf conflict has been the way that in the post Cold War age , there has been a sustainable coalition of western and eastern states determined to prevent Saddam profiting from his attack on Kuwait . |
| 6 | Indeed , the large number of placings and the large discounts in that year may have been the reason as to why placings have had higher discounts than offers for sale , on average . |
| 7 | In three men gastrectomy may have been the cause and in two poor nutrition may have been responsible . |
| 8 | However , central to this development has been the debate as to whether action should extend beyond the immediate needs of the establishment of the internal market . |
| 9 | Erm at that erm meeting members did er bring up a number of points er , the comments and questions which have been put to the Environment Trust and the answers to them are there on page ninety five under progress to date and , and on onto page ninety six er , the main ones really are the question as to whether er , any rented housing could be provided erm , in the scheme is dealt with there the Environment Trust only develop for sale or for equity share er , they 're not a housing association , they 're a charitable body erm so they did n't feel that they were able to er , take on the role of er , provided rented housing in the scheme . |
| 10 | You must be the judges of whether or not I 'm the devil or at least his representative , but I hope you do n't see me that way . |
| 11 | Now so much more time has been released for us to be the church but at the same time we have nowhere to hide and nothing to blame ! |
| 12 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 13 | Twenty-five was about the average age of marriage for Scottish women , — and it does appear to be the case that with the notable exception of Dundee ( where a large number of women continued working ) it was usual throughout the period up to 1914 to give up regular employment on marriage and to return to it only if widowed or in great hardship . |
| 14 | It may well be the case that with regard to many people unlawfully at large this should be regarded as ‘ hot pursuit , ’ but the approach of the Court when faced with a patient absconder allows a choice of methods to be adopted . |
| 15 | William 's reign remains more problematic ; here scholars are prepared to concede a more significant role to Court–Country tensions , although it seems to be the case that at least from 1696 political strife can be understood essentially in terms of a struggle between Whigs and Tories . |
| 16 | As far as the exemption in s103(3) is concerned , " arrangement " is again widely defined as any agreement , scheme or arrangement and it is thought that it must be the case that at least part , if not the whole , of the consideration for the shares allotted is the transfer of the shares in the other company ( ie the target ) . |
| 17 | Accordingly , it may be the case that by the time this book is in your hands departments may have new names and policy responsibilities may have been moved from one department to another . |
| 18 | Because it also happens , it happens to be the case that in local elections people tend to vote on national issues or perceptions . |
| 19 | South east also doing well and in the south east , looking at the it seems to be the case , one ca n't put too strong an el too strong erm a sort of weight on it but it seems to be the case that in the south east it 's the food , drink and tobacco sector and chemicals which are tending to , to lead the way there erm Scotland also strong export demand . |
| 20 | That is unlikely to be the case because of the higher cost of beef , lamb and pork in Britain compared with US production . |
| 21 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 22 | He states : ‘ The most persistent theme of this work will be the thought that for most people at most times the expressive order dominates or shapes the practical order . ’ |
| 23 | So I 'll be the casualty and at the moment we wo n't worry about all the various things you use a high sling for , we just want to make sure that you can actually do it , okay ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 'll have to be the kitchen because of the baby . ’ |
| 25 | To preserve life should always be the goal and in most cases of this nature the mother can be saved . |
| 26 | And clearly I would say that rather than to cross it in that column shown to the A sixty four north that Mr shows , it should be the converse and at least a tick , if not two . |
| 27 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
| 28 | One is that it is doubtful in the extreme whether one can assume that the legislature always intended the tribunal to be the arbiter as to what the contents of the bracket ought to be . |
| 29 | The fact that several shoals are compelled by circumstances to amass in a swim at the same time may be the explanation as to why it is easier to make a big catch from a river . |
| 30 | He looked at the dead engineer , or the man whom Van Gelder had taken to be the engineer because of his blue overalls , and examined the back of his head carefully . |