Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That this is the nub of the British governments ' sudden concern for the long-term unemployed in West Belfast is in little doubt among community activists .
2 It is not surprising therefore that the history of thought about the two policy areas is in some ways similar , although that of family planning is in many ways a decade ahead of conservation .
3 The contemporary debate on energy policy and the sales effort of the Boards concentrated on the domestic sector , though two-thirds of electricity sales were in fact to other consumers ; industry , commerce , transport and farms .
4 Bacterial synthesis of protein from industrial residues or organic wastes such as wood pulp is under investigation and it is probable that viable processes will be developed .
5 The presence of IBS in individuals has not been linked to their fibre intake and its presence in countries such as China makes it unlikely that a single dietary factor such as fibre deficiency is at fault .
6 But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago .
7 Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt .
8 If a claim for $50 or less is received under a Travel policy , then subject to policy cover being in order , the claim should be settled without seeking contribution from the Home/AR Insurer .
9 On Oct. 14 Egypt 's state-controlled Middle East News Agency reported that of the 90,000 Egyptians currently residing in Jordan , some 70,000 without work permits were to be fined and deported .
10 that the , to cope with the expression on that there , that erm we , we must fund , fund this referral unit , erm coming last to capital , erm many of school buildings are in an abysmal and dilapidated position through neglect over many , many years before er , we 've given perhaps , erm , but our meagre a hundred and ninety thousand er I 've , I admit wo n't go very far .
11 I think for people generally , I mean there 's a lot more pollution with cars and for the children who are at pram level or at the exhaust level , its , it can be quite lethal in city centre 's with cars circling to park and such like .
12 Snoopy in Unix argot was of course the original code name of WABI , SunSelect Inc 's imminent Windows-under-Unix entry from its Praxsys Technologies Inc acquisition .
13 We conclude that the appointment of teachers with library training and/or the designation of teachers responsible for library development is to be welcomed .
14 Another way in which pre-existing knowledge is important in discourse interpretation is in the drawing of inferences and we will end this chapter with a brief discussion of some of the research on this very complex topic .
15 It goes without saying that those on retirement incomes were among the principal sufferers under the taxation and inflation rates of the late 1970s .
16 All the affected roads which are already very busy at peak times are to be diverted .
17 As one would expect , the dimensional movement due to moisture changes is about halved .
18 Nevertheless , the problem involved in finding painted pebbles among the millions of beach pebbles is on a par with the fabled needle and haystack problem .
19 Important as these two above opportunity structures are for facilitating corporate crime , the greatest opportunity lies in their ability to prevent their actions from becoming subject to criminal sanctions in the first place .
20 Thousands of farm workers are in danger of being exploited if their minimum wage is scrapped .
21 Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time .
22 By the 1870s sufficient of world agriculture was in the second position to make agrarian depression both world-wide and politically explosive .
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