Example sentences of "be [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 2 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |
| 3 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 4 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 5 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 6 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 7 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 8 | An example would be if on a door to a storeroom which contained high-voltage electrical equipment involved in the supply of electricity to the hotel there was a notice which said ‘ Danger : Keep Out : High Voltage ’ . |
| 9 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 10 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 11 | While the first two models should be available in the next few weeks , delivery on the biggest one wo n't be until after the end of the quarter due to the relative scarcity of 40MHz chips . |
| 12 | I understand from my solicitor that the custody hearing wo n't be till after the Easter holidays , so we have plenty of time . |
| 13 | If I do n't do well , then it will be because on the day I was not capable of doing so . |
| 14 | It could n't really be because of a home movie , could it ? |
| 15 | This may be because of a scarcity of suitable sites , but the great number of individuals present makes it possible for unmated young birds to help their parents in the labour of digging holes just as the young Florida scrub jays help their parents rear new broods . |
| 16 | This may be because of the presence of gall stones , as gall bladder bile is more concentrated in the early stage of cholesterol gall stone formation but becomes diluted depending upon the severity of cholecystitis . |
| 17 | And yet , he wrote , if the glass is to be any sort of advance , it will be because of the middle . |
| 18 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 19 | It may not just be because of the reactions girls fear from their parents , but also because of the mental block they themselves create , illustrated in this chapter by Joanne . |
| 20 | This may be because of the purpose for which the disposition was made , or because of the time at which it was made . |
| 21 | Got to be because of the election . |
| 22 | Mr. Leggatt said that 75 percent of funerals locally were cremations — higher than the national average — and he speculated that this may be because of the lack of cemeteries in the area . |
| 23 | With party membership on the decline could one of the reasons for this be because of the cost ? |
| 24 | This may be because of the difference in lithology between the platform sediments of the Z2 and Z3 Carbonates , but is also possible that the episodes of exposure and leaching in the Z3 Carbonate were of shorter duration and therefore less effective in generating porosity . |
| 25 | This discrepancy may be because of the difference in the choice of antisera , tissue manipulation or staining protocols . |
| 26 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 27 | This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people 's thyroid glands . |
| 28 | If the University of California 's proposal gets the nod it will be because of the quality of the science involved , Bienenstock indicated . |
| 29 | 1.14 " Working day " means any day on which clearing banks in the City of London are ( or would be but for a strike lock-out or other stoppage affecting such banks generally ) open during banking hours and " working days " shall be construed accordingly |
| 30 | ‘ Even assuming a genuine ecclesiastic use of the chapel following demolition of the remainder , it can not be said the church as such is still in ecclesiastical use or would be but for the works . ’ |