Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided instead to select a few films from each of a number of categories ( i.e. types of driving situation ) and thus ensure that within each category there was enough similarity to create sufficient potential distractors for each target . |
| 2 | Of greater significance , however , is the fact that in this case there are two point singularities at the points , and , . |
| 3 | In this case there is active erosion ( and therefore unloading ) along the escarpment edge but relatively little erosion on the plateau surface immediately inland of the escarpment . |
| 4 | And in this case there is some evidence to support it . |
| 5 | Nourse J ( as he then was ) took the view that the decision itself had to provide evidence of error , without assistance from cross-examination , and that in this case there was sufficient evidence . |
| 6 | In this case there was widespread support and sympathy from the overtaxed gentry and clergy . |
| 7 | And this afternoon there was another crash , this time involving four lorries and one car . |
| 8 | This afternoon there was more grief for Mr Crowther 's wife Jean , she attended her mother 's funeral . |
| 9 | Nomura maintains from this level there is more upside potential in Tesco for investors . |
| 10 | ‘ At this level there are some land deals being done . ’ |
| 11 | You do n't have to be an expert to have a go , and at some Clubs there 's free tuition for beginners . |
| 12 | However , in some cases there was little consultation and the report was produced solely by the head of department . |
| 13 | In America within some states there are many school districts with decades of experience of such externally imposed and grade-related tests to enable teachers to make predictions and check by observation and testing the outcome . |
| 14 | Oh James no James you want some listeners I 'm sorry love . |
| 15 | On this terrace there was civilised talk , projects for expeditions , a kind of daily life of the mind for which Alexander , in this not unlike Frederica , had longed in a youth unprovided with games of a serious kind . |
| 16 | It is difficult to summarise them , but , broadly , both they and the Cumberbatch survey confirm the public support for televising , suggest that interest waned slightly as novelty wore off , indicate that on some matters there is growing understanding of Parliament , but make plain that many people still have a lot to learn about MPs and their work and roles . |
| 17 | In this issue there was little philosophy to unravel . |
| 18 | and i it was n't in all areas that the came back , I mean in some areas there was enough security but you would n't know which area was going to be secure . |
| 19 | For this job there 's little point in buying a hand drill ; invest in an electric drill , ideally one with a 13mm ( ½in ) chuck , variable speed control and hammer action , so you can tackle a wide range of drilling jobs in all sorts of materials with just one tool . |
| 20 | Towards the end of this period there was notable research and teaching activity in the area of talk in the classroom , language provision for children with special needs , children 's writing and the role of metaphor and imagination in Language and Learning . |
| 21 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 22 | At this meeting there is considerable scope for adjustment , but the process would clearly fail if there were not also an understanding of the need for a consensual solution to emerge , and within a very tight timescale . |
| 23 | He argued that there were marked similarities between fossil terrestrial fauna and flora from Palaeozoic strata in the various southern continents and between North America and Europe , suggesting that during this era there was free movement over a single large land mass . |
| 24 | In this relationship there is active involvement , collaboration and co-operation during the whole process of the relationship in an enterprise that neither party could achieve on their own . |
| 25 | In Tuscany and Umbria to this day there are countless hill towns of much the same age as the hill forts of southern England — a few of them much older . |
| 26 | But this day he was all action , stepping right up to Nick and thumping him hard . |
| 27 | Marsh showed that in some glasses there is incipient devitrification even when they are new . |
| 28 | Oddly enough — those of you who may recall what it was like in the Ruhr ( or as crews called it " The Happy Valley " ) — on this occasion there was one searchlight waving about near the top of the Ruhr , and for one agonising moment it waved over the Whitley , and there was another one at the bottom by the Cologne end . |
| 29 | On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee , and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends . |
| 30 | When I went for the paper this morning there was this dog , two dogs actually , but one |