Example sentences of "[det] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some are on split levels , all are comfortable , full of atmosphere , and boasting an abundance of beautiful furniture and rafted ceilings .
2 They are normally short and fixed term though some are overnight ( ‘ at call ’ ) deposits and some are for 364 days .
3 Colour was generally white , a few are blue , green , salmon and purple and a few were in two colours .
4 Some were on new bicycles ,
5 Some were in hairy shirts and bare feet .
6 Some were in religious orders and acted as confessors , others were lay people .
7 In 1984 only 17% of America 's landfills were privately owned ; by 1991 , over half were in private hands .
8 Half were in lone-parent families , a quarter in step-families and a quarter had been adopted or were living with grandparents or foster parents .
9 This is to 468 yards with a ridge and bunkers on the dog-leg .
10 Now on one occasion , as I say this is a conglomerate this is of several things put together , but one happened rather like this .
11 All of this is for economic reasons .
12 This is for two reasons : ( a ) state subsidies to farmers are harder to disguise than rigged prices , and therefore harder to keep increasing ; so even if the right reforms initially seem perverse — requiring EC governments to spend more on farmers — that will be only temporary .
13 Management development therefore moves centre stage , and this is for two reasons .
14 This is for two reasons .
15 This is for two reasons : first , these strategies largely ignore the political conditions of their implementation , and second , they fail to answer the question of whether such a ‘ regeneration ’ is possible and whether , if possible , it can take place under conditions which will be of benefit to socialist politics .
16 This is for two reasons ( which , by the way , are often wrongly conflated , including in some of these essays ) .
17 According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ .
18 This is for sixth formers and teachers .
19 Oh well this is for different kinds of metal you see
20 While the ideal perhaps remains the appointment of full-time professional librarians with a dual teaching qualification , at present this is for most schools in most LEAs a pipe dream .
21 So we shall have mashed potatoes this is for mashed potatoes .
22 But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents .
23 This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period .
24 It is a rectangle 520 by 125 feet , surrounded by a colonnade on three sides ; this is in two storeys , the lower one Doric , the upper Ionic .
25 This is in many ways an easier , more convenient option , than the individual taking complete responsibility for her actions .
26 So are members happy that this is in safe hands and er proceeding satisfactorily ?
27 This is in some ways a departure for many house churches which have been strongly pastoral in emphasis .
28 This is from Provincial Pleasures .
29 Then , looking at average pensioner income — this is from written answers in Hansard , 25 July 1990 , c. 305-6 , based on 1987 net income figures — the single person figure is £75.10 and the couple 's figure is £145.67 .
30 This voucher can be used with their next mortgage application through the society , as long as this is within six months of the original application .
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