Example sentences of "be [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 2 | A marble and a stalls back seat could be worth several minutes of noisy bagatelle . |
| 3 | At a stroke the gold reserves in Fort Knox would be worth more dollars , thus improving backing for the dollar ; gold reserves for other central banks would be worth more , encouraging them to accumulate further interest-earning dollar reserves ; gold production would be stimulated and private demand reduced ( as industry tried to economize and speculators took their profits ) , allowing countries to absorb additional gold into their reserves . |
| 4 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 5 | Relative advantage over other existing products — the importance here is whether the potential consumers perceive advantage in the product , which can be for many reasons |
| 6 | This was the time that Farnborough was the place to be for many reasons . |
| 7 | This could be for many reasons : for example the database does not contain a good example of that particular form of letter , or the character may have been badly written . |
| 8 | Norway 's preoccupation is therefore not how to meet its own energy demand , nor will it be for many years , but how best to exploit its hydrocarbon wealth . |
| 9 | Mr Major told the Commons yesterday the EC economies ‘ are not remotely ready for one currency and I believe they will not be ready if they every will be for many years . ’ |
| 10 | The answer of course would be for all suppliers to put a ‘ sell-by or ‘ best before date on the boxes of test kits with a specific shelf life . |
| 11 | We will also be showing why continued research should be permitted , and how disastrous it would be for all women if the policy advocated by the Pro-Life lobby were to be adopted . |
| 12 | ‘ One option would be for all schemes to be channelled through a single agency , so land managers only had one port of call for payments , ’ said the commission . |
| 13 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |
| 14 | Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area . |
| 15 | It is anticipated that the usual request will be for all cross-references pointing to a given range of entries . |
| 16 | What better place than their gloomy underworld could there be for such beliefs ? |
| 17 | The way forward should be for both sides to try and understand one another , to recognise each others ' rights , feelings and beliefs . |
| 18 | When the wind is strong , which it can be for several days in a row , sailing is brisk but safe in the local sheltered area . |
| 19 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 20 | Living by faith in the story of the Incarnation turns out to be for these writers a totally absorbing game , the playing of which is a self-validating exercise that releases human creative energies to the full and extends the play of divine wisdom before the face of God . |
| 21 | It 's incredible what an aphrodisiac the prospect of motherhood can be for some women . |
| 22 | I know it will not be for some months yet , but time passes quickly . |
| 23 | In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures . |
| 24 | Similarly the human being can attain happiness , but it will only be after many years that this fruit of the human mind will be tasted . |
| 25 | Whatever you do at least be sure to make it stupendously high ; let it be of all columns in the world the most lofty . ’ |
| 26 | Unlike an industrial accident involving a single emission source , the pollutants contributing to an urban smog are emitted from numerous diverse sources and may be of many types . |
| 27 | The cattle of Scotland used to be of many colours but predominantly black and of the Highland or Galloway type . |
| 28 | Yeah that might be of those situations with the referee being over protective towards the goalkeeper . |
| 29 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 30 | These may be of several kinds : point mutations involving protein coding genes or tRNA ( 5–9 ) , or more substantial deletion ( 10–12 ) or duplication type mutations ( 13 ) , localized by most studies in a highly specific single-strand zone during replication ( 14–16 ) . |