Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may still be economical to print ten or more but when hundreds or even thousands of copies are required a whole new technology takes over . |
| 2 | The ultimate aim of interviewers is to produce a well-completed schedule for every interview assigned to them . |
| 3 | WHEN a host of clubs are chasing a leading schoolboy talent , the team who win his prized signature will sometimes offer his dad a telling inducement . |
| 4 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 5 | An increasing number of organizations are formulating a written and relatively detailed statement of their communication policy . |
| 6 | SUSSEX SOCIETY OF REFEREES are organising a residential conference at Sussex University from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th September 1992 to mark their 60th year . |
| 7 | SUNDERLAND 's red and white army of supporters were celebrating a famous victory yesterday which put their team into the FA Cup Final . |
| 8 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 9 | After 1870 rather larger numbers of companies were providing a wider range of provision , including in some cases , old-age pensions and health care . |
| 10 | Over in the US , psychologists at a number of universities are making a serious study of how rumours are born , how they propagate and how they can finally be killed off . |
| 11 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 12 | It is not easy to grasp the financial significance of organisations diluting their products , for instance , so that many millions of customers are paying a few pence extra for their goods . |
| 13 | Due to the diversity of structures being accommodated a large increase in data is to be expected . |
| 14 | So an eight-man team of scientists is to make a lengthy tour of the candidate countries . |
| 15 | One of the most common programming devices is the loop , whereby a set of instructions is performed a specified number of times . |
| 16 | Part of the purpose of presuppositions is to provide a coherent explanation of the whole circle of life and reality which we perceive . |
| 17 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
| 18 | A growing number of nurses are making a personal contribution to clinical research : some are even aiming for a higher degree . |
| 19 | Ethan Nadelmann , a drugs expert who heads the Princeton Working Group , which is developing alternative ideas to prohibition , notes that legalisation of drugs was given a serious hearing . |
| 20 | All types of facilities are given a pedagogical mandate in addition to their care function in the explicit sense of fostering the development of autonomous and socially competent ( ‘ gemeinschaftsfähig ’ ) characters ( s. 22 ) . |
| 21 | But the removal of barriers will also mean more competition with customers being offered a wider choice of materials . |
| 22 | Undaunted I commenced my own search and within minutes was holding a medieval buckle . |
| 23 | Professional reference material in schools is given a low priority . |
| 24 | What really impresses me about players is having a unique sound , whether it 's fast or slow . |
| 25 | Since saving takes place out of real disposable ( net ) income , to tax the returns on savings is to impose a further tax on net income . |
| 26 | Here , the Government like to claim that those without jobs are guaranteed a two-year YT place , but even that , something inferior to the German model , is not being delivered . |
| 27 | During the 1920s , however , the clash between these two legacies of the Great War for socialists was to become a central issue in their attempts to grapple with the problem of unemployment . |
| 28 | The upshot of these various strategies by employers was to pose a real threat to the future of the male piece-workers , " who in Edinburgh only get as it were the crumbs that fall from the girls " table … the girls get all the work and the men are thrown into the street " ( a union man ) . |