Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another .
2 Again , the calorie counts are given against each item and at the end of each meal .
3 Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution .
4 The statement before us on the Labour Party and the trade union links sets aside various recommendations on how we are going to cast our block vote at this year 's Labour Party Conference on this issue the options open to us are listed in this paper and I 'd like to make the following observations .
5 A misunderstanding then seems to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members last week saying that its scheme had not been altered in any way and that members could not renew existing policies if the renewal date was after 1990 .
6 The exuberance he felt is manifest in his drawings : rarely have topographical subjects been treated with such freedom and energy .
7 Only a few authorities have been treated in this fashion and they are the councils which have substantially exceeded government targets for local expenditure .
8 Materials have been developed from this study and two books describe 12 pre-school schemes and centres which are attempting to develop relationships between parents and workers ( Pugh et al 1987 ) .
9 Thank you , does touch on that issue and refers to the point that I made earlier that that the proposals having been referred to that policy and how it meets with er more work .
10 But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty .
11 The Chelt 's course has been diverted in this area and consequently , it no longer actually flows to a mill which , like the majority of the mills on the lower section of the Chelt , is of brick and slate construction .
12 The rudimentary organs have not even yet been formed at this stage and the implications support the existence of a guiding field of electromagnetic energy as a responsible agent for the organisation of the cells of the newly forming embryo via the DNA .
13 ( 7 ) The secretary of any club to the premises of which this section applies shall notify the licensing board for the area within which such premises are situated of any reconstruction or extension of , or alteration in , the premises which affects the facilities available in the premises for the provision of the customary main meal at midday , and if the secretary of any club contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence .
14 ( 7 ) The secretary of any club to the premises of which this section applies shall notify the licensing board for the area within which such premises are situated of any reconstruction or extension of , or alteration In , the premises which affects the facilities available in the premises for the provision of substantial refreshment , and if the secretary of any club contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence .
15 After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals .
16 Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa .
17 They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) .
18 For a decade , Sri Lanka has been caught between this ambition and the demand for decentralisation that springs from the country 's ethnic troubles .
19 Again er even frosting blast when even other trees er specific trees are erm alright , it may have been caught in that draught and set it back a little , you never know .
20 They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) .
21 Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp .
22 He could get items that had once been owned by this author or that author , and there was a market for these , particularly for letters .
23 Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) .
24 There are one or two Well there are two items in there which have n't really been resolved at this point and that 's the i the erm ins er where am I .
25 More trees have been felled at this location and Councillor Brereton has requested that replacement trees be planted .
26 For most people their tears are distorted in some way or another , often confused and strangled , not flowing freely .
27 Suggested model memoranda and articles for both limited and unlimited companies are included in this pack and certain provisions in those models ( or provisions to like effect ) are identified in an introductory notes as being necessary if the incorporated practice is to be able to comply with and remain in compliance with the Rules .
28 I think there 's more to love than just simply romantic love erm , I 'm a volunteer campaigner with Oxfam and to me love includes love of my fellow man and fellow women throughout the world and I find it very hard at the moment that millions of people are starving in this world and I feel that I 've got to show my love by helping them
29 Stateless societies are so constituted that the kaleidoscopic succession of concrete social situations provides the stimulus that motivates each individual to act for his own interest or for that of close kin and neighbours with whom he is so totally involved , in a manner which maintains the fabric of society … the lack of specialized roles and the resulting multiplex quality of social networks mean that neither economic nor political ends can be exclusively pursued by anyone to the detriment of society , because the ends are intertwined with each other and further channelled by ritual and controlled by the beliefs which ritual expresses .
30 We have , we are also paying for the very very high price for that er and so it at where we look at , the money we are proposing to spend er in the future that we are grouped in that direction and that 's the , that 's the er budget today .
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