Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a population mainly consisting of doves , the animals will nearly always play against doves , and ‘ hawk ’ will be favoured because its average pay-off is higher in these fights : W > W÷2 . |
| 2 | It is , indeed , at this very point that the movement to advance the status of " English " in education must be situated if its particular history as a cultural and administrative form is to be understood . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 4 | The most common serial port format is RS232 and , already , the sighs and groans can be heard as its mere mention can bring apoplexy to even the most experienced engineer . |
| 5 | The two versions need to be distinguished because their practical implications are different . |
| 6 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 7 | The higher fibre diet fed to the rats could be regarded as their normal fibre intake and thus this study compared normal fibre intake with low fibre intake . |
| 8 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 9 | If the husband elects that his " new " home is to be treated as his main residence , then the disposal to the wife of the former matrimonial home ( or his interest in it ) will give rise to a charge to capital gains tax ; this will be on the gain accruing in respect of the period from when the matrimonial home ceased to be his main residence until the date of the court order or date of agreement between the parties . |
| 10 | There is , then , yet a third way of being systematic with regard to project work , and that is for a school to work out a definite policy on how it should be approached and which particular skills should be stressed at which levels . |
| 11 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 12 | If he could be captured and dealt with , much of the danger for Scotland would be dispersed and his Scots support would dissolve . |
| 13 | In contrast , the range of breeding success among hinds is greater than might be expected because their potential breeding lifespans are long ( over 12 years ) and individuals tend to be either consistently successful or consistently unsuccessful breeders . |
| 14 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 15 | So I 'll be obliged if you two gents would drink up and leave . ’ |
| 16 | A ‘ top-down ’ comment by Holdgate ( 1982 ) also makes a plea for relevant local research which can be applied and its resulting policies replicated . |
| 17 | I look forward to hearing his contribution and finding out whether he can guarantee to employees whose companies are about to be privatised that their future pension rights will be as secure as they are under TOPS . |
| 18 | The six lambs have to be handreared as their natural mothers have enough to cope with . |
| 19 | Table 3.1 lists the four factors which determine the financial status of elderly people — employment , state benefits , private savings , and family transfers — and it can be seen that their relative shares have changed over time , with the decline in employment income roughly matching the rise in state benefits . |
| 20 | If the household should now be paid £200 fortnightly , it can be seen that its average money holding increases to £100 . |
| 21 | It remains to be seen whether his own observa-tion of six years ago ( ‘ I was a rotten singer ’ ) still applies . |
| 22 | It is an obvious guess that these are social signals of some kind — instructions to the rest of the shoal , summons to mates — but much more work has to be done before their exact functions are properly understood . |
| 23 | A chest X-ray or more detailed tests can be done if there any indications . |
| 24 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 25 | But it has to be said that their bass player Steve Harris does have his own football pitch and his own pub ! |
| 26 | It could be said that our present system does not invite people to be active ; does not foster participation . |
| 27 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 28 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 29 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 30 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |