Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 2 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 3 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 4 | ‘ In ten minutes I will be finished here . |
| 5 | We 'd arrived and Mr Tuckett had driven off and within minutes I could be seen , from the street , through the open curtains , upstairs in a bedroom . |
| 6 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 7 | Plotting the graphic sorting characteristics of the same sediment gradients enables recognition of the sorting characteristics which may be expected to occur with sediments from each depositional environment ( Fig. 3.13 ) . |
| 8 | When , for example , God is thought of as like light , the metaphor is meant to bring into play all kinds of overtones and ideas which can help the user to a greater understanding of the word God : light shares some characteristics which can be applied to God — but ones which can not be neatly packaged up in literal words . |
| 9 | Er , here the Policy and Resources Committee also consider that only brought on capital which again issue guidelines which will be reviewed , at the end of January for a final erm , proposal in February . |
| 10 | For the desktop publishing tyro , however , there are some sensible guidelines which can be observed in order to prevent too terrifying an experience during the initial phase . |
| 11 | The answer to the third is that the Criminal Justice Act 1991 introduced new guidelines which can be passed from the magistrates to the social services to ensure that from October this year juveniles can be remanded in custody under certain conditions not previously available to the courts . |
| 12 | The trick is easy if there are birch trees about ; then there is always an abundance of dead twigs which can be snapped easily off the trunks . |
| 13 | Examples of animals which might be chosen are pigs , horses , cows , cats , dogs , ducks and sheep . |
| 14 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 15 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 16 | ‘ B/2 ’ trolley masts with sloping caps which could be turned through the full circle . |
| 17 | The combinations which can be obtained for this are infinite . |
| 18 | A typical approach is to assume a ratio of hydrogen to helium which is the same or fairly similar to that measured in the atmosphere , and to assume that there is a small fraction of heavier elements and their compounds which may be concentrated in a core or dispersed to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 19 | Yes , both bacteria and animals are already being engineered to produce specific compounds which can be extracted and used for the benefit of farm animals or man . |
| 20 | Edison replied with an ‘ Improved Phonograph ’ ( 4 ) , using solid wax cylinders which could be shaved and reused . |
| 21 | They outline test methods which may be used to ascertain whether equipment meets those limits . |
| 22 | It has long been established in England and Wales that the schools should have the fullest possible measure of responsibility for their own work , including responsibility for their own curriculum and teaching methods which should be evolved by their own staff to meet the needs of their own pupils . |
| 23 | These regulations put a premium on formal job search methods which can be recorded , such as Jobcentres and newspapers , rather than informal methods of seeking employment , such as unsolicited visits or letters to employers . |
| 24 | Intangible economic benefits : A large proportion of CMEA imports may have no suitable or readily equivalent Western substitute : the CMEA product mix is geared to the requirements of Soviet industry which , as we have noted in Chapter 2 , may differ from those in the West ; and Western equipment may require complementary products or particular production methods which can be introduced into the Soviet environment only at some effort and expense . |
| 25 | Later in the section on ‘ Free twelve-note music ’ we discussed twelve-note harmony , particularly in connection with two different methods which can be combined into one comprehensive system : ( 1 ) conflicting notes , and ( 2 ) interval harmony . |
| 26 | There are various methods which can be used for computer files ( see box ‘ Getting quarts into pint pots ’ ) . |
| 27 | There are a number of methods which can be used to market a business . |
| 28 | The chosen lexicon or word list must be represented in computer memory , but there are numerous methods which could be employed to do this , in order that it can easily be searched . |
| 29 | Because there are several different methods which could be employed to achieve that same purpose , the structure of that original program was not essential to the purpose and , hence , the structure was expression and not idea . |
| 30 | Describe the methods which could be used to arrive at an annual forecast of sales . |