Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 2 | In 1990 , however , the illegal People 's United Democratic Front ( PUDEMO ) re-emerged after being dormant for several years [ see below ] . |
| 3 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 4 | A source close to the Clinton campaign said the idea is to bring the Bush rumours into the open ‘ to counter what 's already happened , then get this all out there , out of the way , enough to prevent the campaign from being preoccupied with these questions , then to prevent the Republicans , who are very good at it , from taking this low road ’ . |
| 5 | However , Nimbus president , Sanjeev Ranjen , believes HyperSparc , thought to lag Viking ( UX No 381 ) , could still leapfrog it in being available to all comers sooner than it rival . |
| 6 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 7 | the cell cycle time was estimated to be similar in both regions of mucosa , but the crypt turnover time seemed to be significantly longer ( 28.1 days ) in gastric body than in antral ( 11.5 days ) mucosa . |
| 8 | Was I supposed to be pleased by these comments ? |
| 9 | It is , however , unrealistic to expect all of these to be visible in all locations , especially in rural areas where the balance of tenures differs considerably from the national picture . |
| 10 | It did n't matter to be honest in some contracts whether we won or lost against other people low paid workers , exploitation by the contractors . |
| 11 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 12 | Actress June Brown , 65 , had been rumoured to be unhappy with some storylines and upset when market stall holder Pete Beale played by Peter Dean was axed . |
| 13 | It is our aim , with constant reminders from ( our safety officer and leading light of the safety committee ) to be vigilant at all times and constantly put safety and accident prevention in the forefront of employees minds . |
| 14 | Advice to visitors issued in March was to be vigilant at all times , avoid Dairut and Assiut where the most serious attacks have occurred unless carrying out essential business , and dress and behave discreetly . |
| 15 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 16 | The use of family therapy techniques throughout the process of recruiting and training new parents , and preparing children for placement , helps them to be familiar with such techniques and to acknowledge their value when problems develop . |
| 17 | In order to appreciate this situation , it is necessary to be familiar with some aspects of the Aristotelian world view on which the arguments against Copernicus were based . |
| 18 | If the male wants to be potent in these activities , he must avoid the menstruating woman . |
| 19 | The physiotherapist has to be encouraging at all times , but this stops short of praising the patient when he has not achieved a required movement . |
| 20 | But training officers have learnt to be philosophical about such mishaps : " Some stay , some do n't , " they say . |
| 21 | To be successful at such games you need to explore and find new levels and different solutions . |
| 22 | To what extent can it be the case that a decision-making process that is dominated by white , male , middle-aged and middle class civil servants is likely to be appropriate for all areas of social and economic policy ? |
| 23 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |
| 24 | The reader will recall that I argued that this meant satisfactorily surmounting the three stages of psychosexual growth which psychoanalysis discovered long ago to be typical of most individuals in our culture . |
| 25 | That Eliot tended to be curious in such matters , others have noted , and they have sometimes inferred some oddity in his own make-up . |
| 26 | I 'd say he was dead by eleven but it 's impossible to be accurate about these things . |
| 27 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 28 | Thus , like an army in campaigning order , or a ship on the high seas , he must have sufficient in his own stores to be equal to all emergencies . ’ |
| 29 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 30 | On 5 June , it declared Finland to be self-governing in all matters except defence and foreign policy . |