Example sentences of "[be] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ever race under mechanical power was believed to be the 31km ( 19.3 miles ) La Velocipede race around Paris in 1887 . |
| 2 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 3 | The major development over the next 20 years will be the 90% growth in gas consumption and the 80% rise in gas production . |
| 4 | They must be the pair who proposed to retire here one day , Meredith deduced , come to check on the property or possibly even to spend Christmas here . |
| 5 | The instrument of resurrection was to be the turnpike. this custom prevailing , 't is more than probable , that our posterity may see the roads all over England restored in their time to such a perfection , that travelling and carriage of goods will be much more easy both to man and horse than ever it was since the Romans lost this island . |
| 6 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 7 | ‘ It will be the headquarters of all rugby league in London , not just the Crusaders — development , amateurs , the lot . |
| 8 | ‘ In 10 years , it could be the headquarters of the whole of rugby league , those guys up North have run the show for too long ! ’ |
| 9 | Within the chief engineer 's department the main responsibility for sorting things out fell on Group-Captain C. E. H. ( ‘ Charles ’ ) Verity , who came from one of the best pre-vesting undertakings ( the London Power Company ) , after a wartime spell of directing the bombing of German power stations , to be the headquarters Generation Construction Engineer . |
| 10 | It can not be the headquarters building of a normal fort and its association with a building which has all the appearances of a normal villa merely emphasizes the difficulties of interpretation ; but for the inscription a villa it would be . |
| 11 | The faith may be the product of conditioning , or it may be the fruit of symbolic bedazzlement , but in neither case is it in any significant degree the work of reason , judgement , or active participation in the processes of rule . |
| 12 | Also known as the Camel Leopardel , or the lybbarde , this beast was believed to be the offspring of a panther or leopard and a camel . |
| 13 | In a word , a testator may be led but not driven ; and his will must be the offspring of his own volition , and not the record of some one else 's . |
| 14 | The majority of obese individuals will have one parent who is overweight , and only a minority would be the offspring of two obese or two thin parents . |
| 15 | Already , however , reports of the atrocities in the Highlands were causing revulsion in London and when that month Cumberland was made a freeman of a City livery company it was suggested that the most appropriate would be the butchers ' , giving Cumberland his enduring nickname . |
| 16 | Unfortunately this appealing behaviour can also be the goldfish 's downfall if your pond is visited by a heron with the fish greeting the herons arrival by rising to the surface to be fed . |
| 17 | She 'd be the media 's choice . ’ |
| 18 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 19 | Among the outstanding work in the gallery must be the series of panels of the Passion painted for the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod in 1350–5 . |
| 20 | Some words sound like other words , even though they are orthographically dissimilar — an example would be the series " seas " , " sees " , and " seize " , all of which arc pronounced as /se:z/ and rhyme with " please " . |
| 21 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 22 | Using the ailerons during the recovery , for example , may be the means of entering one of these other modes of spin . |
| 23 | The targets will be the means by which pupils ' progress is measured . |
| 24 | Rhythmic changes in this neural activity could be the means by which an individual 's lifestyle could act as a time-cue for his body clock . |
| 25 | Sacrificing civil liberties , Justice Scalia sneered , ‘ can not be the means of making a point . ’ |
| 26 | It seems impossible , then , to avoid the New Testament message that Jesus ' death was planned by God to be the means of reconciliation and peace . |
| 27 | The crucial determinant of team effectiveness is the extent to which teams are deliberately created and managed to be the means by which the organisation functions as opposed to being purely symbolic structures . |
| 28 | We hope to hear favourably and further of the projected enterprise , feeling sure that it would be the means of attracting still more desirable visitors to Henley . ’ |
| 29 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 30 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |