Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a strong " in BNC.

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1 With secondrank politicians , interest in politics continued to be a strong predictor of their visibility , although the impact of television viewing also increased ( Table 7.9 ) .
2 With these second-rank politicians , interest in politics continued to be a strong predictor of their visibility although the impact of television viewing also increased .
3 There would seem to be a strong argument , with so many millions of us , only to do it once .
4 ‘ If we maintain our market share , the container business is going to be a strong cash and profit generator . ’
5 As such preliminary results seem to indicate that these approaches are safer and quieter than unreconstructed streets , as well as being more widely applicable than the Woonerf-style rebuilding which must be restricted to lightly trafficked streets , the case for their continued application seems to be a strong one .
6 The church planter needs to be a strong , visionary leader with a clear sense of call , not necessarily a nurturer or pastor , although these gifts may be present to a lesser degree .
7 ‘ I hope to be a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the Government and I am going to stay on as a MP . ’
8 Nicolas Solvetiov , the second choice , had no known family ties but was known to be a strong party man who toed the line .
9 Vologsky did not appear to be a strong individual — yet he wanted to go into space , so he could not be a physical coward .
10 When the UK is compared with Western European economies and Japan there appears to be a strong inverse relationship between the number of economists acting as official government advisers and the rate of economic growth .
11 THIS HAS to be a strong contender for the Most Dishonest Album Title Of The Year award .
12 There also appears to be a strong correlation between depressed BRS and the inducibility of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia at programmed ventricular stimulation .
13 In all such cases , there is likely to be a strong element of provocation , and the stronger the provocation , the graver the violence used by the dissatisfied victim or relative is likely to be .
14 In the Windows environment there is currently little real competition apart from Windows Write although Samna 's Ami looks to be a strong challenger with its extended handling of fonts .
15 The other point is that , while I have distinguished between the culture of the academic community and the cultural dimension in the student 's educational experience ( and this book is mainly about the second of those ) , there has to be a strong connection between them .
16 There also tended to be a strong presumption that a person brought before the court was guilty .
17 In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy .
18 Since he has shown this sort of network to be discernible in a wide range of different kinds of poetry , and since it is hard to imagine that it could also be found in non-poetic language , there seems to be a strong prima facie case for accepting his argument that the principle of equivalence provides an objective criterion for identifying the poetic function .
19 The HF needs to be a strong solution ( 52–55% ) , with the vessel filled to a depth of about 5–6 mm .
20 This has proven to be a strong deterrent against theft .
21 The new Defence Minister , understood to be a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein 's stance on Kuwait , had been Inspector General of the armed forces and previously a deputy Chief of Staff , and had been decorated for his service in commanding the First Army Special Corps during the Iran-Iraq war .
22 There seems to be a strong argument now that the provisions of Regulation 5 of the UK Transfer Regulations , in so far as they make the transfer of the contract of employment compulsory on the employee as well as the employer , are ultra vires and so susceptible to judicial review , in the sense that the government in making the Regulations exceeded the powers conferred on it by the European Communities Act 1972 to make law by delegated legislation .
23 This was a risky undertaking , but the power of the theme proved to be a strong unifying force .
24 Well , is , is he saying that these are the , these are the things that our religion needs in order to , to be a strong religion , I mean it , she said you know something that I found interesting was what Maska Reece has said about erm the ability of the minority to , to sort of overcome repression
25 It 's not a matter of they 're not reconcilable , I think there has to be a strong point that 's made .
26 Because she knows you to be a strong character .
27 Next Thursday , home to what is expected to be a strong Sheffield Wednesday Reserve side .
28 But there is bound to be a strong challenge from Stitch Them Up , also based at Brough , which won an open for trainer Tom Robinson at Sunderland on Monday night .
29 Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election .
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