Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | Potential hardrock sources , associated with basic igneous rocks , do not have sufficiently high concentrations to be of commercial interest at present . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | You will find your professional abilities to be in constant demand and you will be directly concerned with the provision of services . |
| 6 | Monasteries , hopeful of future gain , could frequently have preferred their entrants to be from wealthy families . |
| 7 | The Erembald family , of which the chancellor of St Donatian 's and the castellan of Bruges were members in 1127 , was alleged by its opponents to be of servile origin ; that its members chose to murder Charles the Good rather than dispute the allegation suggests its truth . |
| 8 | The Master of the Rolls , Lord Donaldson , one of the four , told barristers recently that the interests of justice might require preparation and presentation of criminal , matrimonial and judicial review cases to be in separate hands . |
| 9 | He needs at all rimes to be in full possession of his faculties , or that extra , unpredictable poetic thrust would never declare itself — that heart-lifting boost that rockets mere words into the outer spaces of true poetry . |
| 10 | Or ( another possibility ) , one may judge one theme in scripture to be an organizing focus ( first stage ) , and then ( second stage ) bring that criterion to scripture , judging other themes to be of lesser importance or frankly wanting . |
| 11 | The world was never told by God that it could overcome the evil inherent in it , but Christ tells his disciples to be of good cheer because he has overcome the world . |
| 12 | If you served at RAF Valley , Mona , Bodorgan , Llandrog , Penrhos , Hell 's Mouth , Llanbedr or Tywyn , or if you would like to know more of the aviation heritage of North Wales , you might well find Roy Sloan 's researches to be of special interest . |
| 13 | Married women are more likely than lone mothers to be in paid employment . |
| 14 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 15 | It 's hard for most men to be with successful women but Robert is very proud of me . ’ |
| 16 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 17 | Transmission lines vary in length from centimetres to thousands of kilometres , and to achieve satisfactory transmission it is essential for the delivery and return conductors to be of low-enough resistance and sufficiently insulated from each other . |
| 18 | Young people are more likely than older voters to be against egalitarian measures favouring those who have yet to gain a capital stake in our society . |
| 19 | I was told that the local authority were still maintaining an open mind about the possibility of placing the children with the father and that the choice of foster parents made in October was intended to cover the possibility of the children being returned to the father , but also to cover the possibility of a need for the children to be with foster parents for some longer time , in the event of the assessment of the father proving unsatisfactory . |
| 20 | Not only have the supply of components to be of perfect quality and in the exact quantity , but they have to be delivered in small batches at very specific times . |
| 21 | Here is a man , to anticipate terms we shall find in the next two chapters to be of lasting significance in respect of Chaucer 's use of the fabliau , who can indeed find " " Goddes foyson " " in his wife 's " " queynte " " without enquiring further . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that nothing is more insulting to women — whether it is said by women or men — than talk of setting targets for the number of women to be in top posts ? |
| 23 | The subsequent fate of the cup , which appeared to archaeologists to be of Greek design and bearing ribbing resembling that of one found at Mycenae , is uncertain . |
| 24 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |