Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Meetings of all the Palestinian institutions are starting in order to clarify and decide the prospects for the political action in the future , ’ Arafat aide Hakam Balawi said last night .
2 Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that .
3 The most watched nature programmes are predator versus prey , bullies versus victims .
4 And in the USA , where thermal protection products are distribution by Cooperheat Inc , confidence is high as health scares associated with other barrier materials are driving customers towards silica-based textiles .
5 Other considerations are price of energy and the way its use is controlled .
6 The central T8-A9 step is overwound to 44° , whereas the flanking C-T and A-G steps are underwound to 28° .
7 Organisations that have agreed in principle to let Phonelink hold and use their databases are Infocheck for company profiling ; the Automobile Association for identification of appropriate hotel accommodation , restaurants and guest houses ; Thomson Directories for finding business leads ; the Press Association for news ; Ordnance Survey for destination mapping ; British Rail for railway timetables ; British Weather Services ; and GB Mailing Systems for postcode information .
8 Although The Virgin Prunes are legend in Dublin , nobody took up their mantle .
9 In the FRG the most significant variables are flexibility of operation and clarity of problem definition .
10 The majority of voluntary primary schools are Church of England , while just over half of voluntary secondary schools are Roman Catholic ( see Figure 6.10 ) .
11 Now the ration per airman , meagre as it may have been , was four times for an officer — ie 4lb every other day , The coal compounds were side by side , and whilst the officers ' compound was generally well filled .
12 Therefore , even if two reactive fragments were side by side in a solid argon matrix , there would not necessarily be enough thermal energy to overcome the barrier and reform the precursor .
13 Ramsey 's own preferred subjects were literature versus science as making for happiness , modern democracy , and internationalism , in which he denounced American isolationism and had an imaginative picture of the American Middle West as a lot of boors who did not know where Europe was .
14 But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge .
15 You know and I and I 've only recently really come to terms with how much tha those early songs were part of people 's upbringing and because of Love Hurts and everything people come up to me a lot in the street and we talk about the sixties and everything .
16 ‘ Hostility to tyrants is obedience to God . ’
17 The brightest of these variables is Betelgeux in Orion , which can become almost equal to Rigel , though normally it remains between magnitude 0.4 and 0.7 .
18 More closely linked to GIS is work by McMaster and Johnson ( 1986 ) who perform a very detailed inventory of hazardous materials ( both stored and transported ) in Santa Monica , California .
19 ‘ Gentleman ’ Jim Almonds was part of Lewes 's group on the raid .
20 The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped and separated .
21 The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped not contiguous sometimes with a finely rugose distal edge .
22 The dorsal arm plates are fan to bell shaped and separated .
23 The major feedback loops are stimulation of insulin secretion by glucose and reduction of hepatic glucose output and increase in uptake of glucose into muscles by insulin .
24 Lighter winds are idea for novices and there 's windsurfing too .
25 As Hassan 's comment half-implies , it may in some areas be time for criticism to move on from the task of defining postmodernism in relation to its antecedents .
26 Sermons , extemporary prayer and psalms were part of Bunyan 's military training .
27 Tea dances with cakes ; it all sounds rather dull in 1991 , but to us then the cakes were manna from heaven and the dances were the greatest of fun .
28 Well it it also allows me to once again break in here because er one of the things that you ca n't do in home improvement areas is talk to people about the final price on the phone .
29 One of the issues that arises concerning the inhabitants of squatter settlements is integration into city life , since many of them are migrants and all of them are living in an area which is peripheral , in terms of city services and location .
30 The most common reason for children returning to the danger areas was homesickness for parents and relatives , or parents worrying endlessly about them .
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