Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls .
2 It will be recalled that associatives are adjectives of which the properties are specifically not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase in which they figure .
3 There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions .
4 There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content .
5 I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation .
6 This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief .
7 I hope that my hon. Friend understands that , although it is unusual to contribute at this point in the debate , there are reasons for it .
8 Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game .
9 Some result from experiences or preferences , and are reactions to our fears or those we feel are some kind of threat to us .
10 You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta .
11 It sets out to show that there are comics for everyone from political exposes to baroque fantasies , from toilet humour to cartoon confessionals .
12 In doing so , the study will explore whether there is a common pattern across the public sector , irrespective of differences between services , or whether there are divergences between them .
13 Facilitating adult learning and developing self direction in students are skills in their own right .
14 But the crucial point about pretence or acting is that these are activities for which there are criteria too .
15 Here there are activities with which to occupy oneself in addition to the popular walking .
16 He knows too that there are activities in which he is most intelligent when he is most spontaneous , in which to think may even be dangerous ; the ski jumper or the tightrope walker can not afford to hesitate and reflect .
17 Although both washing and washing up are activities in which dirt is removed from objects , the pleasure inherent in washing seems to be greater .
18 The ideas of the lyric poet , on the other hand , are projections of himself ( whence the lyric " I " ) , but a self indistinguishable from the ground of being , with which the poet is now one .
19 The intricacy of the Paris ‘ Cu[id and Psyche ’ ( 1793 ) or that of the Geneva ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ ( 1794 ) are essays in what Hugh Honour in his catalogue contribution describes as ‘ a meditatively deliberated art of controlled sensuality which demands a reciprocally calm and considered response ’ .
20 Now there are calls for him to resign .
21 In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs .
22 ‘ Have there been attempts on your father 's life before ? ’
23 The contributors are all active researchers in Russian institutes and are authorities in their respective fields .
24 This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it .
25 The customs of each country are manifestations of their essential beliefs , most of which are institutionalized in religions which do differ fundamentally .
26 Where the technique was first practised is unknown , although it is traditionally thought to be of Chinese origin , although there are accounts of it being used in India around 550 BC .
27 There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored .
28 Nonetheless there are titles for which more than one source of information needs to be consulted — either because the titles are borderline choices , and/or because one source does not give all the information needed .
29 The result of this unique situation has been that , although there have been disagreements about which specific reactor type should be built , governments of both main political parties have nearly always accepted the UKAEA 's general pro-nuclear arguments .
30 Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time .
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