Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For problem.solving , strategy formulation or appraisal there is little logic to the voting approach . |
| 2 | The disk is round , diameter up to 15 mm , densely covered with low granules or spinelets which are very rugose and do not form a crown . |
| 3 | Happily , in most of those parishes which have an official organist or director there is mutual respect and good co-operation . |
| 4 | Sir Adrian points out : ‘ It is n't a question of just saying it 's A or B. There are any number of stations between A and B you have to examine . ’ |
| 5 | Were you thinking that broadcasting it was another piece of the pattern ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 're finding that people who 've specialised in a certain field such as financial services or entertainment are much more marketable than people who are more generalist in their work experience , ’ says Ms Ogden . |
| 7 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 8 | Well I saw a pair of trousers in there and they were about erm four pounds fifty and shirt which was one pound fifty ! |
| 9 | In January , February and March there was deep snow , but we still had to spend an hour outside every day . |
| 10 | It was as if Marc himself were some sort of electrical power source . |
| 11 | He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate . |
| 12 | and I do n't believe that is detailed for us , has enabled us sit here and say , yes , A there 's room for them , and B there 's enough parking , and C there 's enough turning . |
| 13 | Whatever the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism there is little doubt that financial matters play far too important a part in their affairs . |
| 14 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 15 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |
| 16 | I remember the gypsies or didycoys congregating outside their favourite pubs in Milford Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays which were both Market Days . |
| 17 | But it would be wrong to see The Waste Land as ‘ controlling … ordering … giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history ’ in the way that Eliot believed Ulysses did . |
| 18 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 19 | Despite these demotions and exclusions there was little trouble with the Conservative Party over the actions which its leaders had taken , inevitably without much consultation . |
| 20 | In addition to clear definitions of energy , power as the rate at which energy flows , and efficiency which is any ratio of energy flows , Odum and Odum ( 1976 ) propose three principles of energy flows ; the law of conservation of energy ; the law of degradation of energy which introduces entropy as a measure of technical disorder to signify the extent to which energy is unable to do work ; and the principle that systems which use energy best survive , which is the maximum power principle or minimum energy expenditure principle . |
| 21 | Where households are made up of husbands and wives there is more emphasis ( compared with say Bethnal Green ) on sharing tasks and sharing friends . |
| 22 | Through her anger and frustration there was another emotion , too . |
| 23 | This usually takes place around the end of the fortieth week — 280 days — although in this as in so many aspects of sex and reproduction there is considerable variability . |
| 24 | Whilst we do not have clear evidence that heparin confers benefit we do know that where one is administering TPA and aspirin and heparin there is some evidence of an increase in side effects . |
| 25 | But even among such illustrious company as Alderson , Callender , Wood , Martyn and Glazier there is one goalkeeper that stands out and that is John Jackson , who has a prodigious 346 League and 42 FA and League Cup appearances to prove it . |
| 26 | In the detailed researches of Malcolmson and others there is ample illustration of the vigour of recreational forms which were an essential part of a plebeian culture , consideration of which is central to an understanding of the social relations of the period . |
| 27 | It deletes the facts empty(x) and to-move(C) which are this operation 's necessary conditions , and adds filled ( x , C ) and to-move(D) where D C. |
| 28 | But obviously if there 's some hesitation over it then perhaps you just need to step back a stage in what you 're saying and er er go over it again to for clarity , and Tony what 's another way of involving the audience ? |
| 29 | and I do n't believe that is detailed for us , has enabled us sit here and say , yes , A there 's room for them , and B there 's enough parking , and C there 's enough turning . |
| 30 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |