Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the RNLI has a unique appeal , the methods of attracting support are in many ways no different to those used by all the other major charities in the country . |
| 2 | Electric windows and mirrors , central locking , rear heating , rear wash/wipe and a tilt wheel are on all models , but today 's hard-pressed executive has to find another £701 for a sunroof and £1,092 for air conditioning . |
| 3 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 4 | But though the churches are failing , religion is in some ways more powerful than ever , if by ‘ religion ’ we mean some way for people to make sense of their lives , and particularly suffering . |
| 5 | The ‘ happy ’ ending in which the Toons inherit their own ghetto is in some ways positive , but the Toons remain happy infants — has anyone ever tried to imagine the bedroom scenes of Roger and Jessica ? |
| 6 | ‘ How fit shooting is for all kinds of men : how honest a pastime for the mind ; how wholesome an exercise for the body . ’ |
| 7 | The subconscious mind is at all times fully protective and will not allow the patient to betray himself by his actions or his words . |
| 8 | Ritual is in some ways akin to routine , the process of regularizing actions . |
| 9 | For them , getting a winter coat was a big thing , it was to many working-class women what getting a car is to many men . |
| 10 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 11 | However , there is authority from cases decided before the 1977 Act that the approach to such clauses is first to construe the contract to define the parties ' obligations without reference to the disputed clause , and then take account of the clause in order to decide what its effect is on those obligations ( see Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) . |
| 12 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 13 | This term is in some respects a misnomer , for within it are the hepatic lipocytes ( fat storing or Ito cells ) and a specialised basement membrane-like matrix , which consists predominantly of type IV collagen , laminin , and proteoglycans . |
| 14 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 15 | This point needs to be stressed , because recruitment administration is in many respects so mundane that outsiders to the personnel department have difficulty understanding why it should cause a problem . |
| 16 | However , that imposition simultaneously reveals how , without linguistic knowledge to explain the distinction , the enforced recognition is for many teachers a traumatic experience . |
| 17 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 18 | Days when my mind was like those days , grey and comfortless for no particular reason . |
| 19 | The Shah had always preferred Republicans to Democrats and he had felt that Carters human rights programme was in some senses directed against him . |
| 20 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 21 | Certainly the ambition was in both cases the same : in a lecture which he gave soon after finishing The Cocktail Party he declared that he only wished to write plays " of contemporary life " . |
| 22 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 23 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |
| 24 | ‘ This guarantee does not affect your statutory rights ’ : we 've all seen it written and , believe it or not , this statement must by law be on all guarantees , in order to explain and remind us that we also have rights against the supplier , as well as the issuer of the guarantee . |
| 25 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 26 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 27 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 28 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 29 | However , the Universe is in many ways a very orderly place : if nine planets orbit a star in roughly the same plane , the tenth can be expected to do likewise . |
| 30 | Now while there is no reason to doubt that the first kind of structure contributes in one way or another to the effect of the poem , it can be and has been argued ( Riffaterre 1966 : 206ff. ) that the second is in most cases irrelevant to the text 's poetic status , since it tends to fall well below the ordinary reader 's level of consciousness . |