Example sentences of "be [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , such a realization arising from contact with other ageing people can alone be worth several face-to-face counselling sessions . |
| 2 | Mm it does n't really look as if it it 's got ta be about that thick coming down do you see what I mean ? |
| 3 | ‘ It 's got to be about this Spanish thing , ’ Mitch said quietly . |
| 4 | Oh , for that uncomfortable bed on his yacht that he now resolved to be aboard this very evening , before any such vote could be called . |
| 5 | Then they felt that the most effective way of dealing with it would be for each main committee to look at the various aspects in detail , rather than take the and miss everything , best for each of the main committees to look in detail at each part . |
| 6 | If she was going to decline Mr O'Hara 's proposal , it was going to be for that very reason . |
| 7 | What justification can there be for another academic article at such a moment ? |
| 8 | In particular , the new demand is likely to be for those concerned with software . |
| 9 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 10 | The only way to get rid of it would be for enough Tory MPs to join with the Opposition parties to throw it out . |
| 11 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 12 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 13 | To assist the debate many local Law Societies , notably Birmingham and Manchester , have agreed with the local county court what the appropriate rate of charge should be for any particular area , for any particular year , and the courts apply those rates . |
| 14 | NEDs may not be independent at all , as their appointment may be for some personal reason or because of existing business connections . |
| 15 | She was most anxious to supply the right tools and be of all possible help . |
| 16 | The emerging pattern seemed to be of each main electronic and electrical sector being left with about three major companies . |
| 17 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 18 | ‘ Where the person applying for leave to make an application for a section 8 order is not the child concerned , the court shall , in deciding whether or not to grant leave , have particular regard to — ( a ) the nature of the proposed application for the section 8 order ; ( b ) the applicant 's connection with the child ; ( c ) any risk there might be of that proposed application disrupting the child 's life to such an extent that he would be harmed by it ; and ( d ) where the child is being looked after by a local authority — ( i ) the authority 's plans for the child 's future ; and ( ii ) the wishes and feelings of the child 's parents . |
| 19 | Among some people who have been involved in negotiations at Geneva on laws-of-war matters there is a genuine concern that any neat set of rules limiting the use of nuclear weapons in one way or another might have the unfortunate effects either of weakening deterrence ; or else , contrariwise , of seeming to legitimise such uses of nuclear weapons as are not covered in any agreement ; or else of being nothing more than a paper accord , which would be of little real value in a conflict . |
| 20 | However , it will be of little real interest to the binocular observer . |
| 21 | One argument was that agreements entered into by an organisation would be of little practical effect unless they were simultaneously binding upon the individual member States . |
| 22 | Without access to property , the freedom of the parties to associate with one another and to make agreements would be of little practical significance in this context . |
| 23 | In the literature a " simple " material is referred to as one in which the stress depends only on the history of the deformation gradients F ( dependence on higher-order gradients has been considered but at present seems to be of little practical value ) . |
| 24 | Audit is an ex post event and improvements in this important function may be of little long-term value if they are not coupled with more general reforms of the accountability of government . |
| 25 | This does not in itself mean that the analysis is invalid , and some of the deficiencies may be of little quantitative significance . |
| 26 | Helping children complete tasks which the support teacher considers to be of little educational value . |
| 27 | The little volume , which deals with cooking out of doors for motorists , cyclists , campers , walkers , and fishermen has never been translated into English and would n't be of much practical use to us if it were , because the majority of the recipes are based on the products to be bought at the " village charcutier " , an institution which does n't exist in the British Isles . |
| 28 | All this needs to be related to the situation in vivo to be of any real use . |
| 29 | To be of any real value core units have to be fairly big for the reasons discussed . |
| 30 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |