Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One important difference between them is that judges are not only legally trained but have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers . |
| 2 | An interesting difference between them is that Alford 's sails rotate anti-clockwise , which is usual and Burgh-le-Marsh 's rotate clockwise which is now unique . |
| 3 | The difference between them was that Louis-Napoleon had no intention of sliding down again and in this determination he was aided , not for the last time , by the actions of his opponents . |
| 4 | The difference between them was that Soutine slunk away ashamed when he was drunk whilst Modi displayed a theatrical abandon . |
| 5 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 6 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |
| 7 | Despite their many differences , deep ecology , animal welfare , and anti-cruelty have some fundamental similarities , the most important of which is that individuals are morally expendable — expendable for the deep ecologist as long as the good of the biotic community is sustained or promoted , expendable for the animal welfarist as long as the welfare of others is protected or advanced , and expendable for those who accept the anti-cruelty position , as long as worthy ends are not obtained by means that cause excessive suffering . |
| 8 | This was quickly followed by a spate of bid rumours , the most sensational of which was that Adia , the big Swiss-based recruitment consultant , was about to launch a takeover bid . |
| 9 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 10 | Flying to Paris within two weeks of gaining her pilot 's licence led to Betty taking part in record breaking flights , one of which was as co-pilot to F/O A E Clouston in DH.88 Comet G–ACSS flying from Croydon to the Cape , breaking Amy Johnson 's outbound record along with five other records in the overall flight . |
| 11 | All went to plan , until he was delayed by a revolution in Venezuela , the consequences of which were that Stewart missed the replay which Casuals lost 4–1 . |
| 12 | The crucially important aspect of it is that changes in the level of prices which are foreseen , or are expected , have no effect on the level of output . |
| 13 | ‘ The pity of it is that Araminta will get the Lodge after all . |
| 14 | Part of it is that interests . |
| 15 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 16 | The simplest way to choose is to think of it is that God is the incarnation Christ is the incarnation of God . |
| 17 | Of course part of it was that McLaren were placing their bets on Prost . |
| 18 | The beauty of it was that Campese could cause such a fearful commotion even when he was running on to nothing more appetising than set piece possession , either from the scrum or the line-out . |
| 19 | Erm a lot of it was that people just accepted their situation and did n't think there was any way they were going to get anything different . |
| 20 | The worst of it was that Charlotte had intended to emphasize how she had come in search of information , not confrontation . |
| 21 | In fact I would say that ninety five percent of the people we take on are er either resting as you are or self employed anyway . |
| 22 | Although the Bible 's claim for itself is that God did directly speak through men , and that he so controlled them that they said what he wanted them to say , it is clear also that the men concerned used their own minds in the process . |
| 23 | The idea behind it is that Arnie has to move along an ever-scrolling backdrop , punching and headbutting all and sundry while ducking underneath projectiles hurled by his assailants . |
| 24 | The whole tone of my contacts with them was that Mills was , ’ he paused to scratch his eyelid , ‘ 'burnt out ’ . |
| 25 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 26 | What does emerge from it is that Norris 's way of reading Derrida is likely to make considerable demands on the reader . |
| 27 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 28 | The way I put it to myself is that Sylvie made a choice . |
| 29 | The reason for it is that resources are likely to be allocated to the individual R D P committees , on probably a per capita basis , and if you do that say with a small R D A like the Whitchurch one , it will just barely be possible to do any projects within that area , given the level of resource you 've got . |
| 30 | ‘ The bonus for us is that Stephen Stewart is fit again after missing three matches with a groin injury . |