Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi is convinced that nature is better than art ; that society based on natural givens is not only more comfortable and just than one based on acts of will and rational choice , but more likely to survive : ‘ A flourishing garden or field is one in which plants grow , flower , are pollinated and root themselves naturally . |
| 2 | But for all these little awakenings and small scale investments , it is impossible to pretend that the volume of interest or commitment is anything like what , on sober reflection , we realise it should be , nor that any proper partnership has been achieved between universities who should have the expertise and interest to conduct and co-ordinate research , and ministries of education who should be increasingly aware of what they do n't know and need to know . |
| 3 | In the case of the Flexifoil , the wing section or aerofoil is one with a distinct reflex . |
| 4 | And sanity is nothing but an emasculation , a dread deadening ; and I wo n't have it ! |
| 5 | But if he likes ( or does n't like ) you , status and money are nothing to Jamie . |
| 6 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
| 7 | Being fat and forty and hating one 's wife and job were none of them socially acceptable . |
| 8 | This gap between learning and behaviour is one through which many fall pregnant . |
| 9 | Where the transfer between husband and wife is one on sale , the fee is calculated in accordance with Scale A , of the 1992 Fee Order on the amount of the consideration . |
| 10 | What raises Eliot above the entrapping circles of city and savage is what for him has continually to raise words towards the Word , something made available in partial revelations . |
| 11 | This wealth of history , beauty and tranquillity is yours on a Waterbike . ’ |
| 12 | The other ‘ road ’ had been developed when in Avon Finance v Bridger [ 1985 ] 2 A11 ER 281 the court envisaged the extension of the protection previously given to wives to elderly parents , and in the present case Scott LJ saw no reason why the ‘ protection ’ should not extend to all cases where the relationship between the surety and debtor was one in which influence by the debtor over the surety and reliance by the surety on the debtor were natural and probable . |
| 13 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 14 | Dirt and dust being everything outside her foul little back-street world . |
| 15 | There is no portrait of Light and his appearance and personality are something of an enigma . |
| 16 | There were very few major countries I did n't visit during that time and travel was nothing like as easy as it is now . |