Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clearly might have been proceeded against as an affray , and counsel 's argument before the Court of Appeal appears to have been that once violence had actually been used , the proper course would have been to charge that offence . |
| 2 | The argument so far has been that since meaning is indeterminate at the non-observational level , translation must be too . |
| 3 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |
| 4 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 5 | Thus at any temperature , say T 1 , ; the Gibbs free energy of any mixture , composition in the composition range to , is higher than either of the two co-existing phases whose compositions are and and phase separation takes place . |
| 6 | The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy . |
| 7 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 8 | The principle must be that although affray is a continuing offence , where the participants can no longer be said to be using or threatening violence towards another person , the offence is complete . |
| 9 | Hence a proper line for the president and his advisers to take would be that as productivity increases , so will corporate profits , investment , and the creation of new jobs . |
| 10 | The government position appears to be that if teacher trainers spend enough time in schools , and if student teachers spend enough time alongside experienced ones and their newly expert trainers , the requisite skills will hopefully be acquired by some kind of osmosis . |
| 11 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 12 | The only differences between the two lines is that after treatment there was a lower mean plasma gastrin concentration and a lower mean acid secretion rate under basal conditions . |
| 13 | The hypothesis that Sabat and Harré advance is that although AD can lead to disruption in memory recall , impairment of linguistic performance , and deficiencies of information processing , it does not result in the loss of ‘ self ’ and only contributes to the possible loss of ‘ selves ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 15 | The point is that although book knowledge is in itself a good thing , it is useless and worse than useless if it deflects your attention from the question that you are being asked . |
| 16 | The main conclusion from this research is that although health and work ability decline in some respects with age , they are subject to considerable personal variance . |
| 17 | The trouble is that although Radio 3 may be the most successful network of its kind in the world , it appeals to a minority — estimated at just five per cent of the population , mostly white , male and over 50 . |
| 18 | What I think 's different about this series is that whereas Casualty and The Bill are about the state sector , what South of the Border seems to be about is the impossibility of the state ever actually doing anything right . |
| 19 | Another way of putting it is that whereas structure denotes a relationship between the elements of anything , tension denotes our experience of structure . |
| 20 | One such difference is that whereas thermometer readings are caused by the temperatures they signify ( that 's what correlates them ) , with bees and honey it 's the other way round : what correlates them is the fact , not that honey makes bees , but that bees make honey — the sign causes what it signifies . |
| 21 | The objection therefore is that since power and property have separated , the legitimating link between them has been broken . |
| 22 | The difficulty is that once violence is resorted to at all , it tends to become part of an escalating spiral ; violence begets violence , and one object of the law is to prevent the resort to violence . |
| 23 | One problem is that once closure is mooted congregations may melt away , services may become less frequent and the will to continue is eroded . |
| 24 | A final problem is that unless breeding success is measured across the lifetime , a biased set of males may be sampled . |
| 25 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 26 | The first of these is that while anthropology purports to say things about man and humanity at large , anthropological practice has fairly consistently been concentrated upon the study of " primitive " man rather than man as such . |
| 27 | The immediate problem is that while soccer in these countries may acquire the trappings of the West , they are not in the same league for cash . |
| 28 | The beauty of it is that while nut everyone can become Black or become a woman , anyone can join the ‘ real people ’ . |
| 29 | The first is that while Article 85 has a section 3 , which permits both block and individual exemptions to be granted on the basis of beneficial affects of particular agreements , there are no corresponding sections in either Article 86 or the Merger Regulation . |
| 30 | The difference between their debts and those of Third World countries however , is that while loan institutions can seize an individual 's assets , they ca n't so easily reclaim a nuclear reactor or a dam . |