Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time I chose the smallest flowers that I could find of each type — the larkspur flowers can range from this shape to nearly twice the size , so it will be worth while hunting through your collection of pressed items both to get some inspiration for your miniature and to determine your colour scheme . |
| 2 | Reduce debtors to 63 days sales ( £1,095,890 divided by 80 x 63 ) = £863,013 , a reduction of £232,877 ; at 14.5% ; this would be worth £33,767 £50k plus £33k = £83k or , if they chose to , they could have £232k cash to put to better use |
| 3 | The initial , halting conversation would be about Masai bravery and the importance of showing no pain . |
| 4 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 5 | Football should nt be about money IMO . |
| 6 | Hence , the majority of this review will be about expert systems . |
| 7 | It will be about October time and probably be held in Abingdon . |
| 8 | ‘ The biggest point that hit me was how much Pay and File was going to be about cash management — juggling around with over- and underpayments . |
| 9 | It might be about Uncle Walter . |
| 10 | You mention the prevention of the equal user five and ten percent level , right , but bear in mind that the more confident you want to , to be about inference I E the smaller the significance level , right , the , the lower is the power of the test . |
| 11 | From the look on their faces during the opening session , it was plain they had imagined an ‘ environment ’ conference to be about rain forests and whales . |
| 12 | The meeting will be about Sports Development Groups and Plans and the Programme is as follows : |
| 13 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 14 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 15 | If he was still alive , he would be about Mr Hobbs 's age . |
| 16 | He is not the only person to have responded on this point , which just shows how powerful anecdotes can be as memory aids . |
| 17 | More important , people interested in temporary working are more likely to choose to be as agency workers rather than direct employees . |
| 18 | No one with half an eye on current trends is mentioning that his main claim to fame used to be as Susan Sarandon 's toy boy . |
| 19 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 20 | Indeed , the remaining debate between the British and other Member States on this matter now centres on the question of how much regulation ( or restriction on the freedom to trade ) there should be for banking services . |
| 21 | Hopefully , Denny 's next fight will be for Terry Magee 's Irish 11 stone title . |
| 22 | David Jacques and Dean Crumpton are looking sturdy as the full-backs , but the biggest test will be for Peter Reed and Wayne Hannigan , ball-winners asked to be more creative in midfield . |
| 23 | In all cases the premises ought to be defined by reference to a plan , probably stated to be for identification purposes only unless the plan is supposed to take precedence over the verbal description of the premises . |
| 24 | The precedent suggests the inclusion of a plan and , while it is suggested that where the premises are clearly defined there is no necessity for a plan , there is little doubt that a plan stated to be for identification purposes ( and thereby preventing the plan from prevailing over the verbal description ) is advisable . |
| 25 | The best thing would be for M Mitterrand to introduce constitutional reform reducing the presidential term from seven to five years and step down in 1993 . |
| 26 | One possibility would be for water companies to install phosphate strippers in sewage works , and machinery to keep water moving in reservoirs , as the blooms do not form on active surfaces . |
| 27 | Six wood veneers in Natural or Surfaced finishes are currently available and it is anticipated that appropriate applications will be for wall panelling and furniture . |
| 28 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 29 | It was further suggested that the principal value of the new statement might be for reference purposes rather than for wide circulation . |
| 30 | These will be for family use only , but she 's branching out in the commercial food market soon with a line of American foods , with the help of husband Chris . |