Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are of course many approaches and variants on approaches to the Gettier problem which I have not discussed , including Shope 's own . |
| 2 | So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies . |
| 3 | There are of course many questions which have not been addressed about such experiences . |
| 4 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 5 | There are of course many cases where there is a necessary either/or in that if something is inherently contradictory , then choice has to be made . |
| 6 | There are of course many aspects of language usage that depend on these relations ( see e.g. Brown & Levinson , 1978 , 1979 ) , but these usages are only relevant to the topic of social deixis in so far as they are grammaticalized Obvious examples of such grammaticalizations are " polite " pronouns and titles of address , but there are many other manifestations of social deixis ( see Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 183-92 , 281-5 ; Levinson , 1977 , 1979b ) . |
| 7 | Only ‘ cause looking at your first question : do you use public transport or do you promote it — there are of course all sorts of arguments sort of for and against that sort of scheme that people have to use their cars . |
| 8 | There are of course all kinds of truths that are not of this sort ; but they lie on a lower level altogether . |
| 9 | There are of course some cases in which the treatment of civil-law and trust dispositions can not be parallel , since the civil law wholly fails to recognize dispositions of that type . |
| 10 | A child will not have been in school many days before he is made aware of individual differences among his classmates . |
| 11 | I have been in action some days . |
| 12 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | He had been in hospital many years before to have his appendix removed and that had been an uneventful procedure . |
| 15 | There are in fact many interpretations and explanations of this strange aspect of communication , just as there are many names given to the phenomenon itself . |
| 16 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 17 | But you 'll be in love many times , you know — this is only the beginning . ’ |
| 18 | He had been to hospital many times before doctors decided there was nothing they could do for him . |
| 19 | Some highly placed people were in fact former pupils of his . |
| 20 | There were in fact many others , with vast tracts of empty space between them . |
| 21 | There were in fact many organizations supplying help to the Republican government . |
| 22 | Contrary to the impression given by Mrs Tiverton , there were in fact several gentlemen present at her morning gathering . |
| 23 | It is now reckoned that 80 per cent of laws enacted by Congress emanate from the executive — if one were to weight these laws in terms of importance , almost certainly that proportion would be higher . |
| 24 | As there are at present few materials focusing on this aspect of discourse , the remainder of 8 suggests what such relevant activities might be . |
| 25 | The simplest way is to ensure that once the drama is under way these roles become highly significant in the drama . |
| 26 | Czechoslovakia 's finance ministry , for instance , is in despair these days as ten separate teams , each with a score of staff , crawl around its country . |
| 27 | Even if a person did not know the consequences of giving up their autonomy , it is in fact these consequences which make the relinquishing of autonomy wrong . |
| 28 | The 10,300 parish priests whose job it is to man these churches are thus a rather scant resource . |
| 29 | Wpc Jones was in fact several yards away and for the moment unaware of any change in the situation . |
| 30 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |