Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are mainly confined to Afghanistan and north-east Persia , although some genuine Russian tribal items may also be found , and are predominantly the work of the Tekke , Yamut , Ersari , Chodor , Saryk and Salor tribes ( pl. 7 ) . |
| 2 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 3 | And there are rather a lot of photographs of one particular consultant obstetrician gynaecologist , Yehudi Gordon . |
| 4 | Oh , we 're talking about sixth forms , Bill , and we 're talking about all schools which have sixth forms and you 're conscious that there are rather a lot of schools with sixth forms in the county and who will feel that it is a significant change . |
| 5 | They are not there apart from an observer , they are rather the tendency of objects to produce certain sensations in one . |
| 6 | But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable . |
| 7 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 8 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 9 | Possums are mostly an annoyance for co-workers , who learn not to rely on them . |
| 10 | Yet elections are rarely a verdict on a single issue , especially one concerned with foreign affairs . |
| 11 | This would avoid civil actions , which are often defeated because individual victims , even when they decide to act co-operatively , are rarely a match for corporations who decide it is better to be prudent than just . |
| 12 | Japanese universities are rarely the home of world-class R&D , though this is changing slowly . |
| 13 | A farce , you may say , since the vast majority of such cases result in an out of court settlement by a wealthy defendant ( poor or uninsured persons are rarely the subject of such actions ) . |
| 14 | There had been rather a lot of funerals at Low Birk Hatt and they were n't inexpensive . |
| 15 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 16 | Earlier in 1973 , the matches against the New Zealanders had been rather an anti-climax to their tour , with the second spoiled by rain , but no one doubted that they were now a permanent addition to the summer . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 18 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 19 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 20 | Wars between nations , he suggests , are wholly a product of people 's territorial natures . |
| 21 | There has been effectively no involvement on the part of UK funds in index arbitrage . |
| 22 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 23 | Sociologists have also strongly questioned the fallacy that social problems are necessarily the product of ‘ bad ’ things . |
| 24 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 25 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 26 | Complaints against police are obviously a problem for all of us , and we as managers throughout the rank structure are concerned about the complaints and it 's simply that , whilst I was in operational command , I had a direct influence in hopefully preventing complaints . |
| 27 | Individual differences are obviously a consequence of the particular past experience of each person who has thereby acquired a unique set of skills based on a natural endowment which was also unique . |
| 28 | Yes , I mean , I feel very strongly in terms of women 's rights , but I think there are obviously a lot of differences between women and you ca n't generalize women , the same as you ca n't generalize individual personalities traits on for men . |
| 29 | They are obviously the remains of some kind of animal , but the problem is to decide what kind . |
| 30 | They are obviously the result of a modern design , not revived technology . |