Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps , like Hope , he found an inexplicable access of joy : ‘ I must be alone , ’ he wrote , ‘ if either my imagination or my heart are to be enriched . ’ |
| 2 | Statements conveying preferential relationships between terms indicate which terms are to be treated as equivalent to one another , or which concepts are to be grouped together under one index term . |
| 3 | They resent the " off-comed-un " , the " bloody potoiler " , the " bloody hiker " , forgetting that no matter how far back their own roots go , they or their ancestors were at one time " foreigners " too . |
| 4 | The sociologist as a ‘ citizen ’ has to ask about the uses to which his or her work is to be put ( see , for example , the discussion of Project Camelot in Chapter 13 ) . |
| 5 | In the eyes of the employing local authority the position of the head as leader-cum-manager depends on how much he or she can manage without the authority 's assistance and on how correct his or her activities are in terms of fitting into national and local patterns of responsibility . |
| 6 | The importance of the family for the prevention of delinquent behaviour was also recognized and it is now widely accepted that the delinquent child and his or her family are in need of the same kind of attention as the deprived child and his or her family . |
| 7 | This teacher normally has no colleague in school with anything like the dominant , even entrepreneurial attributes of ‘ a good head of department ’ in a British secondary school ; in addition his or her headteacher is in principle primus inter pares , with an essentially administrative role : attending to the smooth running of the various councils and committees which since 1968 have clustered round the French school , negotiating with the Ministry usually through its inspectorate , to obtain an adequate supply of teachers , etc . |
| 8 | Shareholders will end up with a highly leveraged vehicle — which is fine if the group is going to thrive and win its franchise , but dangerous if either the group 's stream of advertising revenue or its franchise is under threat . |
| 9 | The tapes and conversation details will all become completely anonymous no one will know who 's used the words or whose voice are on the tapes together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language is spoken in the nineteen nineties we 'll go down in posterity , eh ? |
| 10 | The number of people in Britain who are from , or whose parents are from , the New Commonwealth countries and Pakistan — a category close to but not quite identical to that of the black population — is just over 2 million , just under 4% of the population . |
| 11 | For each primary pupil estimated as being in a household where the child , or the head of household , was born outside the United Kingdom , Eire , the United States or the Old Commonwealth , the Authority receives an extra £274 ; if the pupil is estimated to be in a household which is lacking amenities or overcrowded , is in a one-parent household , has four or more dependent children under the age of 16 , where the head is semi-skilled , unskilled or a farm worker , or whose family is in receipt of Supplementary Benefit , the authority accrues an additional £137 on each count . |
| 12 | All lands afforested by Henry II or his sons were to be disafforested . |
| 13 | or his Mabbot 's of Manchester wafer-machine . |
| 14 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 15 | The presumption of ownership which follows from A's or X 's possession may , for instance , be rebutted by a rival claimant , Y , who can show that he or his predecessor was in possession , and that A or X wrongfully dispossessed him . |
| 16 | In this way observed differences in yields , or whatever property was under investigation , could be accounted for . |
| 17 | … or perhaps worse , your bull has broken into your neighbour 's heifers or your lambs are on the road where they could cause an accident . |
| 18 | If you do n't have a spare or your spare is of the wrong type this does n't mean that you ca n't fit an extra drive . |
| 19 | You or your partner are aged 60 or over , and you are getting the pensioner or higher pensioner premium |
| 20 | What would happen to your family if you or your partner were to suddenly die ? |
| 21 | This was compounded by her belief that her normal examination ( aged 34 ) meant that neither she nor her children were at risk , and she had never discussed the family history with them . |
| 22 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 23 | Neither their range nor their alignment being of more than average accuracy , the damage they did was haphazard but promising . |
| 24 | And my Will is to be Buried in Linen in a Suit which I shall provide for that purpose And I do hereby order and direct that the Sum of Ten Pounds shall be paid to the person who shall be the last in attending me to the time of my expiring and who shall see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen . |
| 25 | I went to bed Friday night and my head was like a cor that was really , all round here that was really sort of hurting . |
| 26 | ‘ You may be running this firm while my father 's in hospital and my uncle 's in limbo , ’ she said tightly , ‘ but your position is purely a temporary one . |
| 27 | This was the Hurlingham Club end of the court , and my patrol was along the front of the court , up Daisy Lane , to the junction with Fulham Palace Road , past the ‘ local ’ Six Bells , past the side of the Court , along the riverside back to base . |
| 28 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 29 | That 's what me and my friends are into , and it does n't make us stupid or slags just because we like to dress up and have fun . ’ |
| 30 | I er , I 'll give you a classic example , I erm and my wife was with me |