Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal is a boost for the BTG , the future of which has been in the balance since the middle of last year . |
| 2 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |
| 3 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 4 | If we consider the environment in the broadest sense , much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK ; these include the DoE , the Forestry Commission , the Nature Conservancy , the Health and Safety Executive , local authorities , the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council ( such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey ) , individuals or research groups in academia , the CEGB , the Friends of the Earth , and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development ( CEED ) ( 1989 ) . |
| 5 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 6 | It was easy to pin-point the period of time within which the theft must have occurred , and not too difficult — was it ? — to find out where the great majority of you had been during the crucial forty-five minutes . |
| 7 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 8 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 9 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 10 | The House approved cases the authority of which had been in doubt . |
| 11 | A report will be produced daily for each unit of work , detailing those entries in the Working-Set on which work is in progress or which require attention . |
| 12 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 13 | But most of it 's an attack by our own union against what has been in the past the most active members of this union . |
| 14 | Choppy 's comments about schools in urban areas is quite interesting , because the first one was actually in Lincolnshire , which in no terms could be regarded as an urban area , and quickly looking down the list — and there are actually about sixty throughout the country — an awful lot of them have been in rural heartlands like Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | National referendums held in November 1988 [ see pp. 36320 ; 36505-06 ] and February 1989 [ see p. 36475 ] overwhelmingly approved amendments to the Constitution transferring power away from the presidency and marking the end of what had been in effect a one-party state . |
| 16 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 17 | 2.1 In regard to performance of this order by you time is of the essence . |