Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian the other children spoke in school was not a dialect like my Triestino and in many subjects I was in any case behind the others , a thought which made me very unhappy . |
| 2 | ‘ IT 'S NOT the number of winners I am after this year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish . |
| 5 | This page lists all the DCs which are in some way related to the DC . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 8 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The sort of things that we cover in the er er code of practice for charging to clients which are outside this . |
| 11 | Beyond the page-turner are the real semi-literate books which are of another kind entirely . |
| 12 | Shoppers who are in any doubt should ask their card company for a new card . |
| 13 | There are doubters who are like this . |
| 14 | On June 17 Jordan launched an international appeal to halt the trials and to help save five Jordanians who were among those sentenced to death . |
| 15 | Rather , the recession called for candidates who were above all young , sharp , bright and who had the necessary track record of success to turn businesses around . |
| 16 | No one can say just how many species of animals there are in these greenhouse-humid dimly lit jungles . |
| 17 | More significantly , in many districts there were in most villages several households which depended on cattle stealing for their livelihood . |
| 18 | At the outset I should point out that the accounts which are before this meeting are for the year ending 5th April 1992 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 21 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
| 22 | It is the fear of losing love , friendship , or both that provides the means whereby the conscience warns the individual of the consequences of performing acts which are in some way hurtful to other creatures . |
| 23 | It is as a consequence of the choices facing countries which are in this intermediate category that the postmodernist organizational debate takes on an important policy dimension . |
| 24 | These appear to be the valid wordings for trusts which are in most common use : ‘ I request ’ , ‘ I ask ’ , ‘ I wish ’ , and ‘ I entrust ’ , which are individually just as effective as if they were all used together . |
| 25 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 26 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 27 | The register is ‘ prima facie evidence of any matters which are by this Act directed or authorised to be inserted in it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Then it would surprise you , perhaps , to learn that Kao Chen was one of the two assassins you were after that day ten years ago . ’ |
| 29 | As a useless item , the name was extended to city dwellers who were of little use when unleashed in the countryside . |
| 30 | Yeah Bob Geldof and the Boom Town Rats they were on that and |