Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideological preferences are similarly of little use , since they may simply be the way in which politicians present their views in order to gain public acceptance . |
| 2 | So wh wh how many man hours are there in that job ? |
| 3 | The entire spectrum of political parties are virtually at each other 's throats to claim the legacy of ‘ Romania 's greatest national hero ’ . |
| 4 | The staff at these branches are perhaps in most need of training , but manpower budget for relief staff and travelling expense budgets prohibits inclusion of these staff at present time ’ . |
| 5 | It is essential that a thorough selection trawl of new books is made , because important titles must be put into stock before they have a chance to go out of print , and because the first year or two after publication is the time that books are usually in most demand . |
| 6 | Thus we have to say of medieval popular drama that the sense of ritual ‘ presence ’ , of the kind still indicated by the formalized words and movements of the mass , has significantly changed , but may in some new combination of signals be still to some extent active , in ways that it is clearly -not in later forms and systems . |
| 7 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 8 | Some of his books were probably in that bonfire ; all of his Sagitta writings were later on the Nazi list of forbidden books . |
| 9 | How many full stops are there in this poem ? and where are they ? |
| 10 | Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons . |
| 11 | Excise duties are often of this kind , being so many pence per packet of cigarettes or per proof of spirit . |
| 12 | Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . ) |
| 13 | Above : ‘ My parents were always in each other 's arms . |
| 14 | The three defendants were also at this morning 's viewing . |
| 15 | The mammalian carnivores are also of some antiquity . |
| 16 | Note that economic classes are nowhere in this account presented as ‘ actors ’ . |
| 17 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 18 | From the 520's onwards , however , the Merovingians were regularly at each other 's throats ; Theuderic I attempted to murder his half-brother Chlothar I ; Chlothar and Childebert I did kill the sons of Chlodomer ; Childebert and Theuderic 's son Theudebert I almost fought against Chlothar , but a storm miraculously prevented a battle taking place . |
| 19 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 20 | Since the observed frequency of aphasia in right handers is well below this figure , the model of unilateral speech dominance for right handers is , according to Satz , at least viable . |
| 21 | Bear in mind how things are still to some extent put into newspapers these days . |
| 22 | St George 's Channel lies between the Welsh and Irish coasts so , unless Captain Bunsby is even more confused than he appears , he must be referring to some smaller channel off the eastern coast of Kent in DS 23 , since the Goodwins and the Downs are both in that region . |
| 23 | Therefore , whereas the market participation of asset owners is always to some extent protected ( by the peculiar qualities of the assets possessed ) , the market activity of the entrepreneur is never protected in any way . |
| 24 | Given the increased emphasis in Soviet military planning upon unreinforced attack by forward deployed units , the quality and reliability of the non-Soviet military establishments is clearly of some significance . |
| 25 | What suggestions are there in this extract that British influence in Europe was in decline during the middle decades of the nineteenth century ? |
| 26 | The main reason that CISCs are still in more use today than CISCs are that commonly used commercial operating systems such as MS-DOS for the IBM PC can not be emulated well on a RISC computer . |
| 27 | Demographic techniques are also of some use in ecological surveillance where there is interest in the breeding stability of a colony of birds or animals or where concern exists over culling programmes or the depletion of fish stocks . |
| 28 | Critical-mass investment situations are also of this type . |
| 29 | But semantically innocuous re-orderings are also to some extent resisted : |
| 30 | Techniques were initially to some extent specific to particular branches of geomorphology but increasingly were found to have much in common and this trend should be further intensified as the potential of environmental monitoring by remote sensing becomes even more widely available and fully utilizes the opportunities offered by developments in microelectronics . |