Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 2 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 3 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 4 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 5 | Apples are basically a mixture of water , sugar , dietary fibre and little else . |
| 6 | The nationalized industries are basically the part of government production that covers the provision of private goods for sale through the market place . |
| 7 | Post-1945 world politics have been basically the politics of revolution and counter-revolution , with national issues intervening only to underline or disturb the main theme . |
| 8 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 9 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 10 | Administrators , on the other hand , are entirely the creatures of statute and it is possible that different considerations apply to administrators than apply to administrative receivers on the question of unregistered companies . |
| 11 | But Cousins stresses they are only a part of community care . |
| 12 | I mean Christmas ones are only a couple of foot apart , there 's only about that much between them , you know ? |
| 13 | Although there are only a handful of breeding peregrines known in the Lothians , there are sites where they have been seen regularly at the start of the breeding season , and then mysteriously disappeared . |
| 14 | On the contrary , the rules of Equity are only a sort of supplement or appendix to the Common Law ; they assume its existence but they add something further . |
| 15 | ‘ Blur are only the present of rock'n'roll . ’ |
| 16 | Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology . |
| 17 | They are of great importance in any full characterization of consciousness , and are rightly the subject of inquiry of several kinds , sometimes in the endeavour to give a limited characterization of the mind . |
| 18 | The systematic answers reveal that love is essentially in the inner heart of man not in works , which are merely a sign of love , though it is true that " luf wil noght be ydel : it es wirkand som gude evermare " ( 111.96 – 7 ) . |
| 19 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 20 | The concept of ideology here signifies the collection of ideas that are merely the product of thought and that have no material basis . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not a wart-hog from hell , ’ she moans . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not the type of manager to go in and say right , I 'll take this and create it into something else . |
| 23 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
| 24 | I am not the master of tack and I always say what I think . |
| 25 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 26 | I am not an optimist by nature , but since coming to this country I have blessed by good fortune . |
| 27 | These are largely a matter of choice . |
| 28 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 29 | Preferences between wholemeal bread and white bread are largely a matter of habit . |
| 30 | It seems to me that I am exactly the sort of person that you need , that you should cultivate me , prime me , pay me , even . |