Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] that [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The larger the filing system , the less likely you are to find that nugget of hidden gold when you want it . |
| 2 | We were told that indications of public concern over proposed development strategies were also influential on the WO and the SoS ( a clear invitation to CPRW to turn up the heat ) . |
| 3 | Such flexibility would be further enhanced if they were to accept that questions of law could have more than one possible answer . |
| 4 | It 's understood that allegations of indecency were made by a 17 year old trainee monk in Brixton . |
| 5 | It 's reckoned that 80% of people only read the headline , so it 's important that you put your name in it , or at least have your name strongly upfront . |
| 6 | It 's estimated that 80% of burglaries are committed by casual opportunists , and in three out of ten thefts the burglar does n't have to use force to gain entry — open windows and unlocked doors make life very easy for him . |
| 7 | A Jockey Club statement yesterday said : ‘ In order to put an end to any further speculation which is harmful to racing , it is confirmed that Flash Of Straw tested positive to a prohibited substance at Yarmouth on 20 August , 1992 . |
| 8 | The Scottish Railway Preservation Society has made contact with General Maude 's Regiment , The Coldstream Guards , and it is hoped that members of the Maude family to be guests at the locomotive 's celebration . |
| 9 | Increasingly , it is hoped that members of the schools ' staffs will join staff and students in college . |
| 10 | It is hoped that study of supply side aspects of macro-economic behaviour would increase the relevance of the model to the researchers ' studies of problems which are at the moment ill-fitted to discuss . |
| 11 | It is hoped that clashes of dates with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association 's world-ranking events , which the Hearn and Doyle camps still intend to support , will be avoided . |
| 12 | It is concluded that studies of colonic manometry are feasible in children and may document discrete abnormalities in those with intestinal pseudo-obstruction with colonic involvement . |
| 13 | In Rangoon it is reckoned that 60% of the commercial buildings and 30% of the residential were destroyed . |
| 14 | It is understood that gangs of up to young people have been roaming Newtownards , and surrounding areas , making local people 's lives ‘ a misery ’ , according to councillors . |
| 15 | It is argued that studies of innovative road layouts ‘ suggest that the innovative features have been generally successful in creating areas in which speeds are well below those normally occurring on most traditional roads ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Although it is argued that fear of punitive jury awards has made the US business safety-conscious , quite a price has had to be paid for that by way of corporate and insurance company bankruptcy , the closing of municipal facilities and the practice of defensive medicine . ’ |
| 17 | It is assumed that holders of other sequestered shares will now try to regain their voting rights . |
| 18 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 19 | Suppose it is recognized that economies of scale may lead to monopoly or other forms of imperfect competition that tend to misallocate resources . |
| 20 | In businesses such as McDonalds where service provision is undertaken by relatively junior staff remote from the centre , very particular attention is paid to quality control procedures as it is realized that lapses of quality or service may have a devastating effect on public confidence and attitudes . |
| 21 | It is estimated that divergence of new world-old world monkeys-hominoid lineage happened about 50 million years ago , indicating that the P3A exon is conserved through primate evolution . |
| 22 | It is recommended that names of intended recipients are shown on a separate heading on the agenda for the meeting concerned . |
| 23 | In addition , it is feared that methods of collecting the community charge by establishing a register of all residents over the age of 18 may result in those who can not afford the tax not completing their electoral registration forms , as this may alert the authorities to their liability for the community charge ( or Poll Tax as it has become known ) . |
| 24 | However , it is striking that discussions of the state , of relations of production , and patterns of surplus extraction are almost completely absent . |
| 25 | Additionally , if it is found that feelings of risk in the simulator are similar to those experienced when actually driving , and there is reasonable consistency between subjects in assessments , it is possible to infer the feelings of risk a subject is likely to experience when confronted with a particular situation without actually asking the subject to give ratings at the time . |
| 26 | It is known that 70% of PSC patients have coexisting ulcerative colitis , and about 5% of ulcerative colitis patients develop PSC . |
| 27 | It is known that phosphorylation of the c-Jun A1 activation domain increases transcriptional activity of the protein ( 13 , 14 ) ; perhaps phosphorylation of Ser-249 has a similar effect on the A2 domain ( amino acid residues 238-257 ; ref. 29 ) . |
| 28 | It is known that dogs of herding and hunting ability were already in north Switzerland and south Germany , an area once known as Helvetia . |
| 29 | It is known that myelinisation of the fibres of the corpus callosum is not complete until about 10 years of age ( Yakovlev and Lecours , 1967 ) . |
| 30 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |