Example sentences of "be [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 2 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 3 | The co-operatives are a real help to the industry , particularly to farmers who are some distance from markets . |
| 4 | The theme of the fourth sentence , Some creators , relates to Rimbaud only indirectly on the basis that poets are some sort of creators , but it does not link in with the theme or rheme of the previous sentence . |
| 5 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 6 | Initial reports from the site indicated that there had been some damage to buildings at the camp site , some distance from the gas plant , but that the plant itself remained unscathed . |
| 7 | While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison . |
| 8 | John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Although there has been some success in attempts to halt such ceremonies , or at least to make them less dangerous or humiliating , there is evidence that they are a perennial aspect of group behaviour unlikely to be eradicated . |
| 10 | As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations . |
| 11 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |
| 12 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 13 | In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ? |
| 14 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 15 | Third , Prisoner 's Dilemma type situations are another class of cases where authorities make a difference while conforming with the dependence thesis . |
| 16 | Third party test facilities are another option for manufacturers which do not want to invest in their own facilities . |
| 17 | There has been much discussion of attempts to increase labour force " flexibility " and the rise of the " flexible firm " , although it is not always clear if this discussion is based upon descriptions , predictions or prescriptions . |
| 18 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 19 | There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats . |
| 20 | There has been much talk of comets , asteroids and exploding supernovae . |
| 21 | There has not yet been much debate about prices . |
| 22 | Er and once again they they they 're all part of estates division and er you know they 're as equally valua valuable to the er |
| 23 | So , there are these sort of centres all over the country , er but this is the first time that there has been one that has arts and science under the same room . |
| 24 | I 'm sure there are all manner of reasons . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , there are all manner of things I need , it is so long since I went shopping . |
| 26 | In this transcendent land are all manner of beauties , poetry and art and mysticism , and beyond are ideas and places of the brain that have not been explored or developed . |
| 27 | There are all manner of betrothals , and any are blessed as long as the heart be true . |
| 28 | I do n't I mean I know I I 'm very busy , I 've got stuff that I should have done , months and months ago , that I have n't got round to doing yet , cos there 's been all sort of interruptions . |
| 29 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 30 | There would n't have been those sort of opportunities . |