Example sentences of "be [indef pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then draws the breathtaking conclusion that ‘ there has been nothing resembling intellectual coherence ’ . |
| 2 | There seemed to be nothing to stop nuclear disarmament that summer , when Eisenhower arrived at Geneva and made his ‘ open skies ’ proposal as a confidence-building measure . |
| 3 | It 's got ta be something telling that bell to ring |
| 4 | A wide range of other indoor and outdoor activities means that there should be something to suit all tastes . |
| 5 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 6 | The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked . |
| 7 | ‘ And there 's nothing missing this time ? ’ |
| 8 | There 's nothing to beat that sense of a victory achieved by your own efforts . |
| 9 | Yeah , if if there 's no-one covering that area then I have to make arrangements for that to be covered which I I will do and that will be . |
| 10 | Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way . |
| 11 | There is nothing to stop such organisations offering to pay the costs of libel actions , and editors deciding whether to settle will bear in mind the strength of the organisation behind the plaintiff . |
| 12 | Where no quorum is laid down in the standing orders , common sense must prevail even if , legally , there is nothing to stop one member continuing with the business ! |
| 13 | For the really determined walker there are two Government-run hotels or pousadas in the mountains , which are so isolated there is nothing to do each day but hit the trail . |
| 14 | There is nothing to contradict that view and much to support it . |
| 15 | There is nothing to suggest outright conflict between arians and catholics in the kingdom of Toulouse , except in the years of expansion under Euric . |
| 16 | There is nothing to suggest these levels have imporoved . |
| 17 | Mr Peter Shrigley , general manager of Oldham health authority , said : ‘ There is nothing to suggest any connection between hospital catering and this outbreak . |
| 18 | There is nothing to encourage any speculation on what the butcher of Abbeville , the peasants , their wives or the priest in Les Perdris or Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , Barat , Haimet and Travers , or Jouglet et al. |
| 19 | If title-page and the information on the reverse agree as to date , and there is nothing to indicate earlier editions , then you may well have a ‘ first ’ . |
| 20 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 21 | However , the political system is " open " and there is nothing to prevent any issue coming onto the governmental agenda for action and decision if an interest group seeks to put it there . |
| 22 | At the moment there is nothing to prevent another flood of 1966 proportions or worse , as was demonstrated by the exceptionally high tide of 8 December last . |
| 23 | What I , what I li what I , what I knew about tinkers and , and that , cos there 's nobody , there 's nobody has any experience of what it was like . |
| 24 | But here 's a place where the food is good and there is plenty to feed hungry teenagers too . |
| 25 | The first sheet we come to is something called personal information . |
| 26 | Similarly , the officer 's conception of an emergency is something demanding instant action to correct a problem rather than to apprehend a violator . |
| 27 | There is one rounded apical papilla flanked on each side by up to 5 oral papillae , the distalmost of which is large , rectangular and opercular . |
| 28 | There is one rounded apical papilla , sometimes two , flanked on each side by 4–5 rounded or pointed apical papillae . |
| 29 | A hypotactic sentence is one containing subordinating conjunctions , such as if , because , although . |
| 30 | There is one pointed apical papilla flanked by 3–4 oral papillae , occasionally as many as 5 or 6 on each side . |