Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Horritt , the principal project manager for the scheme , said there would be some disruption while sewer pipes are laid . |
| 2 | It would be some years before electronics could become the final authority . |
| 3 | These will be another source if videodisc comes into the classroom . |
| 4 | The local gentry were prevailed upon to be such things as president , and vice president ; membership fees for ‘ farmers and tradesmen ’ were 3 shillings , for ‘ labourers ’ 2 shillings , and for youths under 16 years one shilling . |
| 5 | It 'll be many months before work resumes at the Corbett plant of the Sun Valley Company in Hereford . |
| 6 | There 'll be more rail than road in this country of ours one day . |
| 7 | Usually there will be more processes than accumulator arrays , in which case one array is allocated to all the low-priority processes ( the contents being saved and restored as before ) , and the rest will be allocated one array to each high-priority process , to improve process switching time . |
| 8 | It might , however , be the method of choice against mosquitoes in urban regions where there may be more houses than breeding places , where there is likely to be opposition to house spraying , and where the breeding places are limited and more easily identified . |
| 9 | China has provided 400 tons of pork and Cuba an unspecified quantity of poultry for the birthday celebrations , but there will be more circuses than bread to lift popular morale in a joyless nation . |
| 10 | Finally it is safe to predict that in any catalogue there will be more information than art criticism . |
| 11 | For centuries , European people ate the Solan goose on Fridays , believing it to be more fish than bird . |
| 12 | All week long , the Hollywood gossip about this case was of drugs , mysticism and off-beat sex , and for once there may be more truth than fantasy in the flashy talk of the town . ’ |
| 13 | And then it can be several weeks after committal before the trial takes place . ’ |