Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I say how thrilled I am that that United Kingdom shipyard has such a healthy order book ? |
| 2 | The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so . |
| 3 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 4 | The rules of the game are that each person is allowed to turn over two cards and , if they are the same , to withdraw them and place them by their side . |
| 5 | The rules of the game are that each person goes alternately and must take at least one match from one line . |
| 6 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 7 | The predictions are that some records will tumble . |
| 8 | The chief dangers are that some flaw in the title will be overlooked , or that requisitions on title will not be delivered within the stipulated time ( now six working days after delivery of abstract ) , so that a seller 's conveyancer might plead this breach of the conditions of sale as an excuse for not clearing up a genuine difficulty . |
| 9 | The signs are that some people there were more sophisticated and succeeded in bilking the revenue . |
| 10 | The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need . |
| 11 | ‘ My instructions are that this boy is to move on . ’ |
| 12 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 13 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 14 | Indicates are that this figure is continuing to rise . |
| 15 | The indications are that this site may have been exploited for at least a year . |
| 16 | Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case . |
| 17 | Other advantages for registration as a charity are that those parents and friends who can be persuaded to make covenants to the association will be able to gain tax relief and companies that give donations will find it easier to convince the tax man that their gift was entirely for charitable purposes . |
| 18 | Teachers are probably more conscious of teaching knowledge and skills than they are of passing on attitudes , yet if , as former medical students themselves , they were to identify ideals in teaching the chances are that those ideals would be closely associated with one or two of their own teachers whose attitudes and behaviour made the most favourable impression at an impressionable age . |
| 19 | I 'd like to , just like to say that a woman erm , who can not have children erm and re has got to the end of the road , no medical mirac , miracles can help her , erm , if surrogacy is the only option for her then they 've , these pe , couples like myself have gone through such a long erm struggle to get where they are that any child that 's conceived is gon na be a wonderfully loved childed and explained , everything 's explained to the child as he or she grows up . |
| 20 | The chances are that any LSE owner would have an appropriate button fitted as soon as possible , so if Lowden themselves fitted them , making sure the job was done elegantly , that would keep the guitar original and prevent any screw-ups by those amateur guitar repairers who 've never heard of pilot-holes … |
| 21 | The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " . |
| 22 | The buyer 's concerns here are that these items be properly used and cared for by the seller , that they be used only for the purposes of the sub-contract ( ie that the seller does not use them to make goods for third parties which can then be sold by them in competition with the buyer ) , and that they be returned to him at the end of the sub-contract . |
| 23 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 24 | A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act . |
| 25 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 26 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 27 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 28 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 29 | MPs are in the unique position of being able to vote themselves unlimited money from public funds : the dominant view among MPs has always been that this power must be exercised with restraint . |
| 30 | The prediction had been that these elections would result in more women and fewer Scots around the shadow cabinet table as a result of the voting system . |