Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [det] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his form for Victoria this winter has been depressing and he failed to make the Test team against either West Indies or New Zealand . |
| 2 | The users of social services would greatly benefit from a much greater use of research — for decades this point has been made in reports , in meetings , and within research itself . |
| 3 | Under the new regime for companies this problem has been addressed to some extent . |
| 4 | Nationally , calls for January this year have been over 50 per cent . |
| 5 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 6 | Several groups of Communes are in the LFA Zone de Montagne ; in the Rochefort-Montagne Commune of Puy-de-Dome much encouragement has been given to remembrement by M. Giscard d'Estaing who resides in the area and is in favour of ‘ progressive ’ agriculture . |
| 7 | In view of the degree of homology this cDNA has been named ICAM-3 and is predicted to encode a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily with five C2 domains . |
| 8 | By the time of Jesus this commandment had been developed into a list of 513 points of law with detailed conditions of each and every possible situation . |
| 9 | The millions of pounds this district has been able to secure through I D O is testimony to this , despite the rather luke warm support received at the time from the Labour group . |
| 10 | At the level of rhetoric much concern has been expressed about female underachievement even if the reference is generally to the experiences of white girls . |
| 11 | Although in trying to arrive at a definition of schizophrenia much emphasis has been placed on the disturbances that are found in cognitive functioning ( perception , thinking , and attention ) , abnormal emotional response is almost universal . |
| 12 | Since wage pressure is the main factor impeding the reduction of unemployment much work has been done on the factors affecting this . |
| 13 | We did have to predict how much we could help ourselves financially and Joan is pleased to report that through the marvellous efforts made through fund-raising this prediction has been achieved . |
| 14 | In addition some criticism has been made of the new hang as focal paintings viewed down the gallery vistas — for example Raphael 's ‘ Sistine Madonna ’ — are no longer seen in isolation , but comments in the German press and from museum curators have on the whole been overwhelmingly enthusiastic . |
| 15 | In the present discussion on the gp160 protein from MicroGeneSys this fact has been largely ignored . |
| 16 | The trip from Jura that morning had been exciting enough , with a following sea cork-screwing the boat wildly as we ran before it , with the occasional shuddering ‘ gybe ’ when a shift of wind took us by surprise . |
| 17 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 18 | However , in practice this exception has been interpreted as applying to similar contracts issued by other entities . |
| 19 | In practice this power has been rarely used , and only with the greatest reluctance . |
| 20 | In theory , all Japanese drift-netters are still restricted to 12-km nets , with a mesh size of 150 mm ( 6 inches ) , but in practice this regulation has been completely ignored , and the high seas drift-net fleets operate with nets of up to 50 or 60 km ( about 31 or 40 miles ) , and with a range of mesh sizes , as small as 80 mm ( 3.2 inches ) . |
| 21 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 22 | Dates for use of the upper stretch of the Leven in Cumbria this winter have been announced as Oct 6th and 20th , Nov 3rd and 24th , Jan 5th , Feb 9th and Mar 1st and 15th . |
| 23 | Yet in Christ that barrier has been broken down , along with the far bigger wall separating both Jew and Gentile from God . |
| 24 | In Britain this trend has been less marked although the more recent appointment of Sir Derek Rayner , the managing director of Marks and Spencer , as the Conservative government 's economic ‘ watchdog ’ , is significant for similar reasons . |
| 25 | A BRING and Buy Sale in Holywood this weekend has been cancelled . |
| 26 | The call from Nick that afternoon had been well timed . |
| 27 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 28 | Equations ( 1.16.3 ) and ( 1.16.4 ) show that the characteristic equation may be written in the alternative forms unc It follows that the Cayley-Hamilton theorem unc can be written in the alternative form , in which for consistency each factor has been multiplied by -1 , unc It will be observed that , with eigenvalues all different , each of these matrices has degeneracy 1 , the product of all n factors having degeneracy n : i.e. it is null ; this is an illustration of Sylvester 's law of degeneracy ( Theorem XII of 1.22 ) . |
| 29 | Their challenge meeting away to Wolverhampton this evening has been rained off . |
| 30 | However , Mr Meacher 's figures were challenged by the Department of Social Security , which claimed the compensation amount for couples this year had been 95p a week more than Labour 's estimate . |