Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 2 | People will then not have to be burdened with the labels of friction and division . |
| 3 | A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not . |
| 4 | Langhorne was it just then , and the race was won by one A. J. Foyt , not by Mario , who came in ninth in his Windmill Truckers Special : for $637 , to be split with the owners , and with hands like hamburgers . |
| 5 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Such a theory would have to be based on the equations of fluid motion instead of those of the dynamics of molecules interacting only through elastic collisions . |
| 7 | ORKNEY Harbours Authority is calling for a helicopter to be based on the islands for rescue work and pollution control , following the Braer oil tanker disaster in Shetland . |
| 8 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 9 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 10 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 11 | All prices have to be based upon the manufacturers recommended prices , so this has also narrowed it down somewhat , but no expense has been spared to provide everything necessary for establishing and maintaining the fish 's comfort . |
| 12 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 13 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 14 | There is only one other thing to be said about the hedgerows of parliamentary enclosure , and that is when precisely they were made . |
| 15 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 16 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 17 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |
| 18 | If there are any horizontal joints , noggins have to be fixed between the uprights to take the edges of these boards . |
| 19 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 20 | 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor . |
| 21 | The brief given to the three craftworkers approached this year emphasised that what they produce must qualify as a high quality art object in its own right , preferably of a contemporary nature , and suitable to be displayed in the offices or boardrooms of this years ABSA award winners . |
| 22 | He applied to be joined in the proceedings as a defendant and for a stay of the possession order . |
| 23 | Delamont and Galton ( 1987 ) think that arts teachers may be attempting to overcome the low esteem in which their work is held by other teachers by adopting even more rigorous practices of pupil work assignment and evaluation than is to be observed in the practices of teachers in other areas of study thereby establishing their academic credibility . |
| 24 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 25 | The Lithuanian party leader complained similarly of the ‘ administrative diktat' of higher bodies and called for more economic , social and especially ecological powers to be transferred to the republics . |
| 26 | Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 . |
| 27 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 28 | James studied the title page and for twenty seconds pretended to be fascinated by the contents of page one . |
| 29 | The script calls for graffiti to be sprayed on the windows , a special easy-to-clean paint is used . |
| 30 | The flowers bloomed happily in the soft sunshine , complemented by the gently swaying leaves of the trees , which were just beginning to be touched by the colours of autumn . |