Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb mod] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Application for admission may be by the nearest relative or an approved social worker .
2 The passage for instance might be in the nature of one of the following :
3 Any dependants , what your investment policies are , what your need for money will be over the short term and the long term .
4 In the words of Dunlop ( 1958 : 20 ) , the technological context of ‘ railroads has many distinctive features affecting the relations of managers and workers : the train operating divisions use small crews working together and in movement far from close and immediate supervision ; complex and expensive equipment is utilized with a high ratio of capital to worker ; … the costs of accidents can be consequential ; the hours of operations for equipment may be around the clock , and they do not conform to normal factory schedules … ’ .
5 [ They ] have not learned that the stronghold of literature should be in the upper classes of society , while the stronghold of science should be in the nation 's middle class .
6 I do not feel that any harm will come to those people who experience spontaneous regression in such a way , as any group involved in the higher levels of meditation should be under the control of a qualified and experienced teacher or leader who will be on hand to control the situation and to help should the pupil find himself in emotional difficulty .
7 The very limited space between vertical fuel surfaces , little over one metre , severely limits the trajectory of the fire fighting jets and the majority of stock may be at a height beyond their effective throw .
8 They yearned for a society where the surplus product of labour would be at the disposal not of idle capitalists or degenerate gentry but of expert administrators .
9 A final one-day visit by a ‘ core group ’ of members approved the scheme indefinitely and agreed that the future pattern of review would be on the basis of a rolling cycle established by the Polytechnic .
10 What a strange freak of human history it is that the Declaration of Independence should be among the lineal ancestors of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights !
11 But to be forever in child-bed , surrounded by countless sons and daughters , many of them ill ; to run a self-supporting household with endless heavy domestic chores ; to be victim to a view that a woman 's one means of self-fulfilment must be through the home — all that adds up to a state of affairs not to be envied .
12 As noted above , there is some indication of the development of a rebuttable presumption that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts .
13 Yet , the very thesis that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts itself fashions the result that the court believes to be correct .
14 Given that macro-decisions inherently and inevitably condition micro-decisions , the principal focus of attention must be on the political decision-maker .
15 The purpose is clearly to determine whether any other forms of intervention would be in the child 's best interests .
16 The question of reasonableness would be for the court to decide .
17 It had been submitted that such recapture was confined to cases of ‘ hot pursuit ’ and that this criterion was not satisfied in the present case ; but in cases involving mental patients the manner of pursuit must be for the discretion of those undertaking it and ‘ hot ’ pursuit might be inappropriate .
18 Brian Cowie said : ‘ It was the Ipswich branch of CAMRA which mounted a publicity campaign to save the brewery and so it seemed appropriate that the launch of Pride should be at the festival . ’
19 MOUTHFULS of metal may be on the way out .
20 The use of restraint must be within a narrow context and affecting only a very small number of residents , he said .
21 Editor , — D J M Reynolds and J K Aronson indicate in their article on monitoring treatment with theophylline that , to achieve an optimum effect in the absence of complicating factors , plasma concentrations of theophylline must be in the range of 55–110 µmol/l .
22 Letters of Request must be in the language of the authority requested to execute it ( or be accompanied by a translation into that language ) ; or in English or French , unless a party has made a reservation under Article 33 excluding the use of English or French ; or in another language which a Contracting State has declared its readiness to accept .
23 The quality and breadth of learning can be of a very high order and entirely relevant to the needs of young people in modern society .
24 Today the firm offers connectivity products supporting Santa Cruz Operation Unix , Unix 5.1 , and IBM 's AIX — Craine says Sun Microsystems , Hewlett-Packard and DEC flavours of Unix might be on the agenda sometime in the future , though nothing is imminent .
25 Once again the period of hypnosis itself will take only about twenty minutes , after which we will decide what the best form of homework would be in the particular circumstances .
26 A key feature of the proposals in the consultation document is , once again , that the main focus of policy would be on the economic effects of market structure and conduct , and not on general public interest considerations .
27 The Minister of State will be under no time constraint this evening , and she will have plenty of time to tell us precisely what she will do about this serious subject .
28 [ They ] have not learned that the stronghold of literature should be in the upper classes of society , while the stronghold of science should be in the nation 's middle class .
29 The lowest level of growth will be in the household and small consumer sector .
30 The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment .
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