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

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1 Shares , goes the patter , are products like any other and so deserve the same marketing effort .
2 Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements .
3 I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom .
4 There are reasons for this , reasons rooted in social circumstances rather than natural abilities and these can be highlighted by examining the period between Johnson and Ali .
5 We are aware that there are lots of individuals around us , individual people like Socrates erm and erm Plato , erm and then there is the possibility that in addition to these individual people er at the level of there are corresponding to these individual people at the level of intellect erm there are forms of these individuals .
6 And then , though in varying degrees , you can see or hear these specific kinds of work : relatively easily if they are specific forms of your own culture ; with more difficulty , and sometimes with absolute difficulty , if they are forms of some other , especially remote culture , or if your own culture is deeply divided and these forms come from an area that is strange to you .
7 There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations .
8 There are farmers , there are conservationists and there are farmer-conservationists among both the groups appointed by council and by minister .
9 Some are calls to each other ; some to the gringo .
10 Indeed , if the state can be thought of as acting as a single shareholder then it will be in a more powerful position vis-a-vis management than are shareholders of most private companies .
11 ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’
12 The story was that there had once been houses on each side of the road but a century or so ago , those on the west had been demolished to add to the parkland .
13 There are dangers in that .
14 Yes , but there are dangers in that .
15 It is sometimes admitted that there are dangers in this in that they can take the wrong decisions , about new technology , or marketing a product , or about industrial relations , and it is implied that if these decisions lead to the wrong strategy then all will be lost for everyone .
16 The ‘ reactive ’ response is to medicate only when observation confirms something to be amiss — and there are dangers in both approaches .
17 Build over and forget , or preserve and remember , there are dangers in both .
18 There are dangers in any tough solution , the greatest of which is the price Russia 's regional barons might extract for their support .
19 The programmes developed by egalitarian and woman-centred feminist psychologists are manifestations of this over-attachment to certainty .
20 Initial mounting of such bibliographic files such as the Institute of Scientific Information citation indices and EMBASE at Bath , and the continuing support with the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) for the datacentre at Manchester are manifestations of this programme , which envisages the creation of up to five datacentres .
21 Perhaps , too , there are times in each woman 's life when that harmony is most apparent .
22 No prizes can be offered for pointing out that at a given moment there are artists of several generations working and in very different ways .
23 Nevertheless there are signs of some rethinking of alternative job descriptions for the volunteer .
24 There are signs of this .
25 In the various comments made by Lord Arran , as Minister with responsibility for agriculture , there are signs of this dilemma .
26 There are signs in some schools that the most successful activities have been those which mainly involve boys , and that home economics and other subjects taken mainly by girls have fared less well .
27 There are signs from some parts of the country that some authorities are already exploring , albeit gingerly , the possibilities of ‘ joint purchasing ’ and that this represents a good way forward .
28 ‘ And yet , ’ he added , ‘ there are builders on that plot now , with an Egyptian engineer , building a palace for an army captain .
29 Yachts of Scandinavia are builders of some substance .
30 There are proposals in this Queen 's Speech which we can welcome .
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