Example sentences of "and be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |
| 2 | This is because the additional semantic traits normally carried by mare are already inferable from the rest of the sentence , and are to that degree superfluous . |
| 3 | Ley hunters today tend to think of leys purely as alignments and are to some extent dubious about Watkins 's idea of old straight tracks-though the South American paths do present a question mark here . |
| 4 | The various clinical activity indices in general use depend on subjective features for their calculation and are of little use in day to day patient management , but do at least provide a tool which enables comparison of data obtained from different centres . |
| 5 | We will not consider any more complex tones , since these are not often encountered and are of little importance . |
| 6 | Indices such as the dependency ratio are widely quoted and are of some use in portraying overall trends and relationships between different elements of the population of Specific countries ( or any other geographical area ) . |
| 7 | The JCT suggest that the form is suitable where the proposed works are of a simple content involving the normally recognised basic trades and skills of the industry and are without any building service installations or other complex specialist work . |
| 8 | The very old and the young have a weaker mind than those in their prime and are for this reason more vulnerable to spirit attack . |
| 9 | Their flowers appear over several weeks in summer and are at all times most striking and handsome . |
| 10 | What is apparent is that the risk factors identified run parallel to and are in many respects very similar to those already noted in relation to child abuse . |
| 11 | Not only are many consumers injured by corporate crime ; thousands of employees too suffer from ‘ accidents ’ at work ( which are in fact not pure accidents but events which spring directly from the conditions of production and are in that sense avoidable ) or work-induced diseases , such as asbestosis , lung cancer , and mesothelioma . |
| 12 | Massey 's schematic representation of this form seems to imply that particular production units may be associated with head offices , but this does not imply a privileged status for any particular unit because head office functions may not be associated with any productive unit and are in any event highly mobile . |
| 13 | Obviously its qualities varied considerably and are in any case difficult to assess . |
| 14 | An study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has shown how EC " structural " funds , designed to alleviate poverty , fail to account for the environment and are in some cases responsible for the destruction of habitats and extinction of species . |
| 15 | Such upwarps consist of broad swells running parallel to the coast and are in most cases flanked on their oceanward side by a great escarpment . |
| 16 | Other publications emanating from official enquiries , such as the French National Assembly 's postwar investigation of the events of the 1930s , may without being corrupt , nevertheless reflect special interests and be to that extent unrepresentative . |
| 17 | It must be made from a material which is structurally suitable for the hygienic environment , and be without any form of coating which could prove risky once the surface has been damaged and expose an unsuitable material such as mild steel , to the environment . |
| 18 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 19 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 20 | But Mr. Holman is right to point out that they are strictly obiter and were in neither case supported by any corresponding observation on behalf of the other members of the court . |
| 21 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 22 | THE Einstein Observatory survey of cosmic X-ray sources a decade ago showed that coronae were common among diverse types of star , and were in many cases more energetic than the Sun 's corona . |
| 23 | They had an extraordinary tension and were in some ways quite different from the earlier recording . |
| 24 | What 's the difference between being in and being in all day ? |
| 25 | and being in this state for |
| 26 | Can anybody tell me how long it will be until A is on this side and is on that side ? |
| 27 | Mr Major may be chancellor of the exchequer but he is also the member of Parliament for Huntingdon and is on most short-lists to succeed Mrs Thatcher as Tory leader . |
| 28 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |
| 29 | The contrast between professional norms and bureaucratic norms is a familiar theme in the literature on professions , and is to some extent exemplified in the ambiguous relationship between academics and administrators in higher education itself . |
| 30 | Whether Modigliani and Jeanne lived in Nice or in nearby Cagnes-sur-Mer , or more probably both , can never be definitely proved and is of little consequence . |