Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you 're aiming for are the receding depths of the river concealing its greater mysteries , while your fish flirt unawares in the foreground … |
| 2 | What we are slowly making our way towards are the pictorial consequences of Rosenberg 's nothingness and the fatality . |
| 3 | Under the influence of Cézanne , Picasso 's work becomes once again more purely painterly , and these figures , though still simple and often clumsy and awkward in appearance , never give the impression , as did so many of the paintings of the Negroid phase , of being the pictorial counterparts of wooden sculptures . |
| 4 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 5 | English fans have at the moment , the reputation of being the top boys in Europe , and there will be others from Holland , Germany and erm let's face it , also Italy who 'll be out to knock them off their pedestal . |
| 6 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 7 | A protocell probably came into being a few hours after the formation of proteins . |
| 8 | What Cable has equipped us with is a theoretical metrics with challenging things to say about poetic competence : metrics , as he puts it ( p. 65 ) , " is not about orthography and written texts apprehended by the eye but about mental structures " . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the tragedies we have to deal with is the large numbers of young Scots who leave school unable to read , write or add up . |
| 10 | The reasons for this flexibility are that little party capital is made out of these alterations and since the Treasury fears forestalling , it is held that there c ; in be no prior negotiations about tax changes with outside interests . |
| 11 | Erm but you get some circuits where the only thing you 're interested in is the tiny deviations from Ohm 's Law . |
| 12 | What we are interested in is the different sorts of inferences which we make as addressees , depending on variables like the age and sex of the speaker , as a result of hearing what B says . |
| 13 | Me : ‘ I told you there were to be no bug-eyed monsters in Doctor Who . ’ |
| 14 | There were to be no male heirs for Thomas — indeed , he was to father only one robust child who would survive into old age , as we shall see shortly . |
| 15 | There seem to be no other restrictions on the nature of the cause of action . |
| 16 | They regretted that there appeared to be no suitable places of safety in Orkney if it was found to be absolutely necessary to remove children from their homes . |
| 17 | There appears to be no standard pinouts for p.c.b . |
| 18 | However , there seem to be no morphological studies on the actual uptake of trace substances and their route through the epithelial barrier . |
| 19 | There seem to be no visible stains between the bodies . ’ |
| 20 | There really ought to be no further attempts to dramatically improve stamina now . |
| 21 | There are to be no further scenes on the stage , no deviations from the rehearsals . |
| 22 | There appear to be no important differences in performance on intelligence tests in the working age range and as the influence of physical effort in work becomes less important so it is more feasible that jobs can be performed equally well by either sex . |
| 23 | And there are to be no special exemptions for disabled drivers . |
| 24 | However , there appear to be no obvious reasons for the variation in number of libraries in total , or their divisional spread . |
| 25 | There seem to be no discoverable rules about the shape of market places , why some take the form of a large open square — often set rather apart from the main flow of traffic — and some a swelling , a sort of aneurism , in the main artery of trade . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , there seem to be no recorded details of the type of steam engine used . |
| 27 | There looked to be no itinerant thieves about and Masham ticked on under its watery sun . |
| 28 | There were to be no more transactions with them . |
| 29 | Though it grated on their code of hospitality , the island hosts then decided there were to be no more gifts of food or drink , no more counselling or mapping , no more lending of labour , or advice . |
| 30 | You know with a balloon , there 's just got to be a better ways of doing it instead of having to use boring ways . |