Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as the ‘ external functions ’ of the Soviet Armed Forces acquire real importance , the principal means upon which the USSR relies to influence change are what Westerners are accustomed to call ‘ other means ’ : moral , political and material support furnished below the legal threshold of intervention , designed to encourage and revolutionise or at least influence and infiltrate . |
| 2 | And Wexford who was an agnostic , a profane man , thought , Lord , how manifold are thy works in all the earth . |
| 3 | The individual 's responsibility in conversion is to repent and believe ; God 's initiative and response are his gift of forgiveness and his gift of the Holy Spirit ; and the church 's role is to welcome the new believer into fellowship , symbolizing this publicly in the act of baptism . |
| 4 | The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 5 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 6 | What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her . |
| 7 | Thus objects include a much wider list of things than entities : indeed , a database schema or a data dictionary are themselves objects . |
| 8 | And the third o category that come into mind are your husband or wife 's nephews and nieces . |
| 9 | You 're not gon na be going before tea are you Bryony ? |
| 10 | Muddy Waters , Willie Dixon and John Lee Hooker are his contemporaries , but while they were busy shaping the urban blues , Pop stuck to gospel with his family group , the Staple Singers . |
| 11 | Anyone who has seen a recent Konitz performance wo n't argue with this ; taste , attention to tonal delicacy and a striving after melodic inventiveness are his hallmarks . |
| 12 | Actions of evil and barbarism are its stock in trade . |
| 13 | His passionate love of the English language is absolute : his wit and fluency are its testimony . |
| 14 | What condition are your hands in ? |
| 15 | The courts have said that the general skills of an employee are his property and the employer can only protect his property — business secrets . |
| 16 | Will Speed be our ballwinner as well ? |
| 17 | It is the same with your Self : do n't struggle to impose your will : let your mind be your body and your body be your mind . ’ |
| 18 | er and some of the solutions that are offered to reduce those crimes involve women restricting , their movements and their freedoms , but I think one of the other reasons why generally people who are victims of crime be they men or women feel guilty is because one of the implicit elements in tradition crime prevention strategies is for us to reduce the opportunity for crime |
| 19 | Their eyes shifted to her accusingly , as if the hem 's collapse were her fault . |
| 20 | With the publication of this book , British geographers can no longer be content to quote the aphorism about geography being what geographers do , and then gracefully retire from the discussion as though there were nothing to add . |
| 21 | He was a professional musician and the concourses of the Underground were his auditorium . |
| 22 | If the Earth is a living being its energy flows and sacred centres correspond to the meridians and acupuncture points in the human body . |
| 23 | In so far as our religion is our vision of the world , if that vision comes no longer to seem ethical , then it will be discarded . |
| 24 | At the heart of Freud 's thinking is his model of the human mind ( not the brain ) consisting of three elements : the id , the ego , and the superego . |
| 25 | Master Shallot is my friend ! ’ ' |
| 26 | Its strongest American card is its 44% stake in Amdahl Corp , and while IBM appears to be playing into Amdahl 's hands in the short term , Amdahl knows it has to build a big new business almost from scratch out of Unix and its Huron applications development and delivery environment if it is to grow much beyond its present $2,500m or so annual business . |
| 27 | Its own agreement to exist as a partnership is its investment in its own future effectiveness . |
| 28 | His chief monument is his work in the St Albans Psalter : forty full-page prefatory paintings illustrating the life of Christ and other subjects ; tinted drawings of the life of St Alexis and of Christ at Emmaus ; the historiated initial at the beginning of Psalm 1 ; and under-drawings for other historiated initials . |
| 29 | The president is my grandfather Walter , with my grandmother to his right , his daughter Eileen is in the second row fourth from the right . |
| 30 | Thus , the trainer is our example was watching for relaxation before he made any demands on the horse , and also communicating his calm confidence . |