Example sentences of "[be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that such examples represent the tip of an iceberg . |
| 3 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 4 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |
| 5 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 6 | There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests . |
| 7 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 8 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 9 | If Pound had attended to Thomas Hardy 's marriage to Florence Emily Dugdale within two years of the death of his first wife , Emma , there can be little doubt that this is the verdict he would have passed on the transaction . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt for instance that the doubtfulness or downright hostility felt towards Eliot by some Americans , particularly in recent decades , derives from the sort of American Eliot was — and remained , long after he had taken British citizenship . |
| 11 | And , although you do get Patsy Kensit to show that not all Boers are boors , there can be little doubt that casting like this will in the long run do more to bring about the end of white rule in South Africa than Robert Royston 's worthy but long-winded drama of apartheid horrors . |
| 12 | However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers . |
| 13 | Even with that level of scrutiny , there could be little hope of containing fraud , which is already a serious drain on the EC 's coffers and on its reputation . |
| 14 | Environmental protection and wealth creation are in tension but not necessarily in conflict , and indeed there can be little hope of improving the quality of the environment without the resources to do so . |
| 15 | Adeane 's function as private secretary appeared to be little more than the job of arranging the Prince 's schedule around polo and the children 's bath times . |
| 16 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 17 | The horse box charge from the south would be a minimum of £500 and more for those coming from the West Country , so there would be little change from a £2,000 race when all the expenses , including the deductions for trainer , jockey and stable lads have been completed . |
| 18 | Although no reports on incidental killings of small cetaceans in the new Tasman/South Pacific drift-net fishery were provided by the Taiwanese , Japanese , or Korean governments , there could be little doubt of the damage being done . |
| 19 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 20 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 21 | But there can be little doubt that such change is not going to happen overnight . |
| 22 | There can therefore be little doubt that , in general , sexual assaults constitute a substantially more serious form of harm than mere property offences — which is not to deny that some forms of theft or destruction of property can be more serious than some minor sexual assaults . |
| 23 | There can be little doubt that the administration of criminal justice has paid insufficient attention to problems of sexual abuse over the years , and recent improvements in police procedures and in services for victims are to be welcomed . |
| 24 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 25 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 26 | Even so , there can be little doubt that by the middle of the war , the hold of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was among German youth , too , in a process of disintegration . |
| 27 | There can be little doubt that it was the professionalism of Karajan 's music-making — revered by fellow musicians — allied to a range of truly outstanding performances spread across a vast repertoire that had generated this success . |
| 28 | Whether or not the Palace actually arranged for the drawing to be removed , there can be little doubt that they were delighted to be rid of it . … |
| 29 | Either way it is likely , as Palmerston said of a projected coalition with Disraeli in 1857 , to be little more than ‘ the accident and fortuitous concurrence of atoms ’ . |
| 30 | There can be little doubt that any government would rapidly do so should it become politically expedient . |