Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation . |
| 2 | As a result , an Inservice Panel was established in June 1983 , and it has been through this body that project-related INSET development can be traced . |
| 3 | Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy . |
| 4 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 5 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 6 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 7 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |
| 8 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 9 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 10 | Sardines and anchovies are worth extra money if canned in olive oil and their flavour is greatly improved , even if you do not eat the oil . |
| 11 | Both the village and surrounding countryside are worth some exploration and I was lucky as my trek gave me an insight into both . |
| 12 | A number of dimensions of child rearing emerged from this material , and of these two are worth special mention because they have been found by other investigators too . |
| 13 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 14 | The rooms are for 2–3 sharing and are all well furnished with private bath , shower , WC and balcony . |
| 15 | Some of the form and topical subdivisions are for general application and are known as free-floating . |
| 16 | The Seville variety is mainly used for marmalade , while the rest are for ordinary eating and cooking . |
| 17 | Beware of some proprietary brands — most are for preventative use and will have little effect against serious outbreaks of parasites . |
| 18 | The duration of local authority bonds is typically between one and five years , although most are for one year and are known as yearling bonds . |
| 19 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 20 | Four season bags are for all-year use and five season bags are designed for the kind of extreme cold temperatures you 're likely to find on winter expeditions . |
| 21 | The , the bright city lights that 's not what makes people uproot their , uproot their lives and go and move somewhere else , they are after economic betterment and that 's the driving force er behind migration so just before we leave the non economic factors what might they be ? |
| 22 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 23 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 24 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 25 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 26 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 27 | Faith had been of certain mind but easier to please . |
| 28 | Any academic learning at Stamford , therefore , must have been of limited scope and only the rebel students and masters between 1333 and 1335 ever issued degrees . |
| 29 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 30 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |