Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 2 | The average requirements are in fact considerably less and the details are set out below . |
| 3 | Construction is expected to begin next year and the first experiments could be under way as early as 1998 . |
| 4 | The combined firm , which might be in existence as early as the end of March , would have funds under management of about £4 billion and handle the affairs of more than 30,000 clients . |
| 5 | If I can fulfil any of your needs just ring that bell behind you and I will be in attendance as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 6 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 7 | Opposition parties , including the liberal Kuwait Democratic Forum , gave a cautious welcome to the government 's proposed schedule for elections , but argued that the endorsement of urgent reconstruction plans required a parliament to be in place sooner rather than later . |
| 8 | Since health education is an area which is of concern both inside and outside school , the co-ordinator has to be a person with sufficient status to be at ease with parents , health agencies , other sectors of education , and to take decisions which cut across stages and subjects . |
| 9 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 10 | is under pressure again now and loses out to Kevin . |
| 11 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 12 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 13 | ’ There 's no doubt that he 's on form just now and his pace is really difficult to handle . |
| 14 | Yet more is at issue here even than fundamental turning-points . |
| 15 | It was of significance both outside as well as inside the limits of Aquitaine . |
| 16 | The forthcoming contest was of importance not merely because of California 's size and prestige , but also because the state was expected to gain another six or seven seats in the federal legislature as a result of the redistribution due to follow the 1990 census . |
| 17 | But I was into boxing pretty heavily as well . |
| 18 | In addition to the wins , Lyle was in contention almost permanently and the pressure , for close on 18 months , was immense . |
| 19 | No other vehicle was in sight as far as the eye could see . |
| 20 | Irvine 's Society of Archers was in existence as late as the 1850s but for some reason unknown the papingo shoot appears to have ended as early as 1721 . |
| 21 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 22 | An influential report by Professor Jurg Niehans in February 1981 argued that monetary policy was in fact excessively tight because the high interest rates were attracting foreign money to London and maintaining a high pound . |
| 23 | However , that figure was in fact far better than it looked as the banks had the worst ranking of any sector , with an average negative rating of -1,357 . |