Example sentences of "be [det] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the differences are such that to the student weaned on a study of the United States Constitution , the British Constitution is nearly incomprehensible . |
| 2 | They 're all cos of the heart trouble in the family , you know . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're more than due a holiday , ’ her mother at once declared . |
| 4 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
| 5 | Systems coping with cursive script are fewer and on the whole less accurate than their unconnected character counterparts because recognition of cursive script is much more difficult . |
| 6 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 7 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 8 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |
| 9 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |
| 10 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 11 | Although the practical difficulties of time measurement were such that until the middle of the seventeenth century most clocks had but one hand and the dial was divided only into hours and quarters , the abstract framework of uniformly divided time gradually became the new medium of daily existence . |
| 12 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
| 13 | Is that because of the distance they have to travel ? |
| 14 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 15 | Is that because of the food price war ? |
| 16 | Is that because of the war ? |
| 17 | but is this because of the family 's bad eating habits , or is there a genetic factor ? |
| 18 | Their influence is such that during the stalking season vast areas of Scotland are closed off to hillwalkers . |
| 19 | Tell people that you are going to meet Linford Christie , and women go coy and men go bawdy , and it is all because of the shorts , the blatant visual précis of the image . |
| 20 | INFANTS at Harrowgate Hill School in Darlington are adopting a uniform of hard hats , overalls and wellingtons and it is all because of the pantomime , Peter Pan . |
| 21 | It 's all because of a computer error at the Cheltenham based University Central Council on Admissions . |
| 22 | And if they get very famished and very desperate and enough of their mates come out to join them , then how can Sir Robert Peel and his Tories fail to listen when you tell him it 's all because of the Corn Laws ? |
| 23 | Is he aware of the report by the Henley Centre for Forecasting , which states that , in the first nine months of this year , 12,359 small businesses failed in London and the south-east , which is more than in the whole of last year and shows an alarming and continuing increase in business failures in our capital city ? |
| 24 | In particular , since oscillation is avoided if the phase shift is less than at the frequency at which falls to unity , it follows that a negative-feedback amplifier involving just first-order networks is stable if the slope of the plot of versus is less than 12dB per octave as the condition is approached . |
| 25 | Was that because of the docks ? |
| 26 | Was this because of the wording of the items or the unfamiliarity of the task ? |
| 27 | Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell . |
| 28 | He opened the door but the dimness inside was such that for a moment he could see little ; then , as his eyes accommodated , he saw Maurice standing , pressed against the far wall as though he wanted to vanish through it . |
| 29 | The distribution of the wreckage was such that from the position of the outer wing panels more than two kilometres from the main wreckage it was clear that there had been a structural failure of both wings in the air . |