Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since these qualities are fundamentally expressions of values , attitudes and feelings within the persons , traditional in-service training approaches which concentrate on conveying new knowledge , imparting particular skills or prescribing certain patterns of behaviour are insufficient for headship development . |
| 2 | ‘ That should change , but it is only what the Japanese have been successfully doing for years . ’ |
| 3 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 4 | There are obviously loads of permutations . |
| 5 | Recognise that alcohol , cannabis , cocaine , LSD , heroin , Methadone , minor tranquillisers , sleeping tablets and many other mood-altering substances are all cross.addictive to sufferers from addictive disease and that all these drugs feed the disease regardless of whether they are legal , illegal or medicinally prescribed . |
| 6 | This piece of writing sums up Owen 's feelings of war and his poems , we see , are somewhat warnings of things to come . |
| 7 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 8 | As he explains , ‘ Those immediate objects of perception , which according to [ some ] … are only appearances of things , I take to be the real things themselves . ’ |
| 9 | Furthermore , body measurements at birth are only proxies for variables more closely related to the processes that underlie programming . |
| 10 | These newly discovered pieces of evidence are only fragments of scales , but they can be identified because they match those from complete skeletons that have been found in later rocks . |
| 11 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |
| 12 | The Balinese are aware that their deities are only symbols for forces , and not the real forces themselves . |
| 13 | Often the problems are only storms in teacups , and all that is needed is a gentle ‘ sorry ’ , a laugh , a hug , a cup of tea , and all is well . |
| 14 | Remember , too , that there are literally scores of cafes in Zurich where you can have a quick and cheap snack . |
| 15 | There are literally scores of opportunities for retired people to make a valuable contribution within their own community . |
| 16 | In the second place , the correlations that are produced are merely statements about associations , and tell us nothing about the direction of cause and effect . |
| 17 | Explorer tickets are normally £6 for adults and £3 for children . |
| 18 | Gymnemins from Gymnema sylvestre ( Asclepiadaceae ) remove the sense of sweetness in some mammalian tongues , but are not deterrent to caterpillars and have less effect on dogs or rabbits than they do on apes . |
| 19 | As for the mentioned activity , an attempt must be made to understand it in a way consonant with what has been said of contents and objects , that they are not states of affairs or ordinary things , and also with a further fact , that there are various modes of consciousness . |
| 20 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 21 | Nozick might claim that his conditional theory also proves the same point , that we do n't know we are not brains in vats . |
| 22 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 23 | Questions about trumping and revoking are not questions about experiences — or , if they are , they are psychological questions , not questions about the concepts of trumping and revoking . |
| 24 | Such charges are totally outside the scope of VAT altogether because they are not charges for goods or services . |
| 25 | There was no red carpet for the new Lords of the Manor … but then again Denis Smith and his right hand man Malcolm Crosby are not ones for airs and graces … |
| 26 | The R Y A does n't need an enormous subscription income and so if we could increase personal membership to say four hundred and eighty thousand , which happens to be the aggregate membership of our member clubs , this could be at a very much lower individual subscription and this in turn would facilitate selling membership to the nearly two million yachts persons who are not members of clubs . |
| 27 | That is , in an effort to ensure that any variations in replies respondents provide are not artifacts of variations in the way in which the questions were asked , each respondent should be given the same questions in the same serial order . |
| 28 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |
| 29 | and our growth is offset by savings and they are not budget , they are not cuts in services , they are savings which of efficiency , erm they would would should and would happen erm in any case . |
| 30 | ‘ Most of these councillors are just hangers-on in suits who do n't know the meaning of an honest day 's graft . ’ |