Example sentences of "be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For not having the obsessive singlemindedness — the bloody-minded selfishness — which permits a few male artists to be geniuses . |
| 2 | Hulme and Blyth ( 1984 ) recognised several vegetation types which might be forms of the above communities involving Calluna vulgaris and Potentilla erecta in disturbed peatland in Lewis . |
| 3 | These can be forms of avoidance that make it impossible for the couple to look at their marital problems . |
| 4 | Printed on the back of the letter there will be forms enabling the allottee to renounce , and the person to whom they are ultimately renounced to confirm that he accepts the renunciation and agrees to be entered on the register . |
| 5 | There will be surely , there 'll be forms on other colours at the moment that match the wallet colours . |
| 6 | And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against . |
| 7 | In addition , there were fears that , if undertakings made during a takeover bid could be put aside subsequently , then there would be calls to replace the present takeover system , based to a great extent on a voluntary code of conduct and self-regulation , by a statutory system . |
| 8 | Of course there will be calls for that . |
| 9 | Marigolds , tansy , feverfew , golden marjoram and dill would all combine , in cultivation as well as colour ; another mixture could be pinks , cotton lavender , blue rue , clary and borage . |
| 10 | Many of them contained pieces of carpet and what appeared to be spindles of thread . |
| 11 | There might be footprints . |
| 12 | There might be footprints , there could be anything , several things and the all those type of things is what helps the police to try and catch the people |
| 13 | There will be rules to prevent assets being acquired by the pension fund from the owner of that pension fund and vice versa . |
| 14 | There will also be rules to limit the amount that a fund can invest in its sponsoring company . |
| 15 | ‘ There have to be rules about behaviour and hours , but they can be enforced without making enemies . ’ |
| 16 | There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers . |
| 17 | There will be rules of interpretation and rules of action . |
| 18 | His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity . |
| 19 | For a word to have a meaning is for there to be rules for its use : rules in virtue of which the application of the word can count as correct in some cases and incorrect in others . |
| 20 | In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence . |
| 21 | There have to be rules , laws , for everything ; after all , there are even rules for war . |
| 22 | Third , there may be rules that do not directly sanction that which might arguably constitute a breach of fiduciary obligation , but which might be thought to assume its legitimacy . |
| 23 | That says , Well there are n't any rules at the moment obviously but but should there there are rules for for for civil servants , should there be rules for politicians ? |
| 24 | The gibbon and siamang societies seem to be products of strong K selection . |
| 25 | The problems we 'll encounter will all be products of our own brains . |
| 26 | Both of these would be products of a continued modernization process based on a principle of cultural differentiation . |
| 27 | Alcohol and tobacco are generally assumed to be products with a very inelastic demand . |
| 28 | The teacher might think of extra resources : a box of artefacts ( some of which may be replicas ) which the pupils can handle ; a bookcase with additional reference materials including dictionaries and atlases as well as appropriate texts of higher and lower levels or a selection of visual materials for study . |
| 29 | Sam could not see exactly what they were , but he knew that they would be lions with their heads between their paws . |
| 30 | One group will be lions , another cows and yet another horses . |