Example sentences of "[prep] be [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came into being after a lama saw a fight between a white crane and an ape . |
| 2 | The future can not come into being until the past is dead . |
| 3 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 4 | And time boiled back into being as the touch of his lips sent a shaft of fire down to sear her inside . |
| 5 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |
| 6 | The uprising had no leader at its helm with a master plan for how life was going to be after the revolution was over . |
| 7 | The principal issue is likely to be whether a pension fund transferred is fully funded or the amount that is transferred from the old pension fund to the new one is sufficient to cover the existing liabilities . |
| 8 | The test for remoteness of damage in negligence actions was stated to be whether the damage was a direct consequence of the breach of duty . |
| 9 | The main consideration ought to be whether the offence is one which makes the employee unsuitable for his or her type of work or unacceptable to colleagues . |
| 10 | The question for the court used to be whether the applicant had shown prima facie evidence , or a probability , that his legal rights were being infringed . |
| 11 | Try and find out from your expert exactly how long it is likely to be before the report is available . |
| 12 | How cross you used to be if a goose 's feather 's were n't drawn straight ! ’ , |
| 13 | Well to be quite clear I 'm prepared to allow debate on that motion if you wish it to be if the majority of you wish there to be a fight , but if the majority wish the er to pass the vote on the amendment I will take that , do you wish to . |
| 14 | Used to be when a carpenter put up a door he put up a door . |
| 15 | Not that this should put off the more cautious or less experienced , because although the Mournes are no place to be when the mist is thick and low , the famous Mourne Wall is never far away and provides an excellent point of reference . |
| 16 | This is where to be when the Bomb drops : snug as you like . |
| 17 | Outbound timing is initiated over the fix and at the abeam position — if the abeam position can not be determined — timing from abeam must be taken to be when the outbound turn is completed . |
| 18 | later that day , looking in the Pennine Alps Central guidebook we saw it was n't technically hard [ PD7plusmn ; ( about V Diff ) ] but was committing , a long way from base and a bad spot to be when the weather breaks . |
| 19 | On the hand it most likely to be because the subject discussed is of great interest to the newspaper 's readers . |
| 20 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 21 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 22 | One of the things I again would like to see in schools is that sort of approach , which brings out what language is really about , and I think that that 's an exciting and possibly quite unexpected outcome of bringing computers into schools , but it will require that we do n't simply think of it as being ‘ oh , let's have a micro in the science lab ’ ; it is going to be as the government seems to recognise , a step involving curriculum design , involving helping teachers _ really , really helping them in a strongly supportive way — to do something which is , I would say , revolutionary . |
| 23 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |