Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had an extraordinary tension and were in some ways quite different from the earlier recording . |
| 2 | in favour er in his pursuit of er deregulation in scrapping all regulations er er about fraud , attempts to stop fraud , controls on fraud and is like this , is deregulation going to be a fraudsters fun day ? |
| 3 | The JCT suggest that the form is suitable where the proposed works are of a simple content involving the normally recognised basic trades and skills of the industry and are without any building service installations or other complex specialist work . |
| 4 | Can anybody tell me how long it will be until A is on this side and is on that side ? |
| 5 | Such upwarps consist of broad swells running parallel to the coast and are in most cases flanked on their oceanward side by a great escarpment . |
| 6 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 7 | In July 1318 , pope John XXII wrote to philip V of France informing him that although the king 's court had conferred tutelage of Gaston I 's children on Jeanne , Margaret of Béarn already had Gaston II in her keeping and was in any case to be preferred as guardian of the young count . |
| 8 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 9 | The point at which this occurs is known as the FLORY or THETA point and is in some ways analogous to the Boyle point for a non-ideal gas . |
| 10 | This story , which deserves attention and is in some ways unique , is told in Chapter 7 . |
| 11 | Er she had left her husband and was with this |
| 12 | Harry Pascoe heard the laughter following this remark and was in little doubt that it was at his own expense . |
| 13 | The other regional feature of the exterior displayed here is the fish-tail roofing of turrets and lantern , which has an oriental appearance and is like that at Fontevrault kitchen ( 276 ) and Angoulême Cathedral ( 273 and 376 ) , also the Spanish Cathedral of Zamora ( 316 ) . |
| 14 | This confuses the predator because it has ‘ tuned in ’ , so to speak , to the bright colour and is following that . |
| 15 | An study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has shown how EC " structural " funds , designed to alleviate poverty , fail to account for the environment and are in some cases responsible for the destruction of habitats and extinction of species . |
| 16 | To a layman , the word ‘ bureaucracy ’ has unpleasant associations ; however , the German writer , Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) who is the organisational theorist most closely associated with the analysis of bureaucracy , was inclined to regard bureaucracy as the ideal form of organisation , which is ‘ from a purely technical point of view , capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational means of carrying out imperative control over human beings . ’ |
| 17 | First , spending on residential care in private sector homes for elderly people through the social security budget was rising at an exponential rate and was to all intents and purposes out of control , being demand led . |
| 18 | The various clinical activity indices in general use depend on subjective features for their calculation and are of little use in day to day patient management , but do at least provide a tool which enables comparison of data obtained from different centres . |
| 19 | In a letter for publication , Williamson had drawn attention to the fact that he drove a Jaguar and was for some time after known to the Gadfly column as ‘ Jaguar Man . ’ |
| 20 | George is quite realistic throughout the book and is in some cases , justifiably pessimistic . |
| 21 | But Mr. Holman is right to point out that they are strictly obiter and were in neither case supported by any corresponding observation on behalf of the other members of the court . |
| 22 | She has a strong , engaging personality and is in many ways a resilient , but sensitive child who thrives on adult attention and who can communicate her feelings and needs effectively . |
| 23 | Their flowers appear over several weeks in summer and are at all times most striking and handsome . |
| 24 | They had three daughters and one son , Matthew , who followed his father 's profession and was for many years superintendent of the LNER locomotive depot at Neasden , London . |
| 25 | However , having said that , I am very strongly in favour of increasing physical activity and am among those who suspect that its value in weight control has been much underestimated . |
| 26 | The white cat , presumably by direct contrast , was seen as a force of light against the darkness and was in this way converted into a symbol of good fortune . |
| 27 | Massey 's schematic representation of this form seems to imply that particular production units may be associated with head offices , but this does not imply a privileged status for any particular unit because head office functions may not be associated with any productive unit and are in any event highly mobile . |
| 28 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 29 | More or less equal to Spurgeon in fame , and surpassing him in notoriety ( for Spurgeon avoided party politics and was in many ways sui generis ) was the Congregationalist , Joseph Parker . |
| 30 | Not only are many consumers injured by corporate crime ; thousands of employees too suffer from ‘ accidents ’ at work ( which are in fact not pure accidents but events which spring directly from the conditions of production and are in that sense avoidable ) or work-induced diseases , such as asbestosis , lung cancer , and mesothelioma . |