Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bretton Woods arrangements recognized these problems by encouraging long-term adjustment to be carried out through deficit countries devaluing when their balance of payments was in ‘ fundamental disequilibrium ’ . |
| 2 | If some companies are incorporated in ( for example ) Spain , Italy , Germany or Finland which set of accounts are to be warranted : the legal ( tax-based ) accounts or the internal management ( business-based ) accounts ? |
| 3 | International Literacy Year 1990 , whose programme of activities was to be co-ordinated by UNESCO [ for its announcement in 1987 see p. 35925 ] , was launched on Dec. 6 , 1989 . |
| 4 | The exploits of the doctor and his household of animals were to be recorded in twelve books , always set in England at some unspecified time in the middle of the last century . |
| 5 | Peter 's initiative in opening Russia to western influences , his modernisation of the administration and his development of industries were in sharp contrast to the Muscovite traditions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 6 | His knowledge of airships was at a premium , and his reputation had been enhanced by his patented invention of a carburettor that could burn hydrogen which was otherwise wasted on airship operations . |
| 7 | But he does not adopt this alternative , and his criticism of needs is in fact part of a much more fundamental attack on classical economics . |
| 8 | When you actually went into the kitchen what type of things were in there ? |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proportion of pensioners are in the top half of the income distribution ; and what was the comparable figure for 1979 . |
| 10 | And the other thing of course was that one movement , which took about one second , right and you would n't have a loom , one movement of this machine where the needles go up , take the yarn , knitted a hundred stitches , two hundred stitches , what whatever number of stitches were on that particular piece of fabric , the width . |
| 11 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |