Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a staff development activity it is designed to be of both immediate and long-term use in the classroom and school setting , and thus meets an important stipulation for effective in-service work . |
| 2 | The FAO said that the annual maize harvest in 11 countries was expected to be at least 25 per cent down and that countries which would normally export maize , notably South Africa and Zimbabwe , would themselves be seeking imports of the regional staple . |
| 3 | Rural housing within reach of farm workers has come to be in even shorter supply . |
| 4 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 5 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 6 | Being fabricated from thin section materials the uprights are not considered to be of sufficiently robust construction to support the cladding and the roof of the building — as is typical of many structural steel high-bay structures . |
| 7 | Surely accountants should be seeking to give their clients value for money and if the audit of a small company is deemed to be of very little value , then how can we in all conscience — justify the charging of substantial fees for such a service . |
| 8 | the level below which certain collocates are deemed to be of too low frequency to be statistically stable . |
| 9 | An important part of the discussion deals with the difficulty of deciding whether variation can be said to be between semantically equivalent forms which carry social meaning , or to encode an aspectual distinction ; this latter issue is treated in the context of a ( non-quantitative ) analysis of the semantic distinctions underlying tense and aspect marking ( see further 7.6 and 7.7 ) . |
| 10 | There can be said to be at least three groups of predator assemblage distinguishable by this form of analysis . |
| 11 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 12 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 13 | Undoubtedly the most important group of works by the artist to appear at auction for many years , the canvases are said to be in extremely good condition . |
| 14 | The prime minister , by contrast , is said to be against more spending cuts . |
| 15 | 5.4.7 Both schools illustrate the fact that developments in Stage 3 of the project can be seen to be of potentially greater significance than the immediate effects of securing and expending a Major grant . |
| 16 | Negotiators for 33,000 manual workers at Ford Motor Company yesterday put in a bid for a ‘ substantial rise ’ — thought to be at least 10 per cent . |
| 17 | So by the 1930s there were thought to be at least 10 million cyclists — ten times the number of private motorists . |
| 18 | There are a number of different varieties of quarks : there are thought to be at least six " flavors , " which we call up , down , strange , charmed , bottom , and top . |
| 19 | There are thought to be at least 12 wolves in the area , including juveniles . |
| 20 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 21 | states , they 've got to be accurate , they 've got to be at least half a mile apart |
| 22 | So far , therefore , the findings have tended to be of more obvious value to the accountant than to those responsible for planning advertising . |
| 23 | for every successful candidate there are bound to be at least two who were pipped at the post , who jumped the final fence only to find that the client had chosen one of their fellow front-runners : and these were the ones who — by and large — responded to the survey rather than the successful ones . |
| 24 | There is also bound to be at least two low-end , low-cost single chip RS/6000 models , the M20 and M20A PowerStations , along with mid-range systems , upgrades to existing machines , and finally the results of IBM 's development work with network server company Auspex System Inc , Santa Clara , California , first reported here one year ago ( UX No 369 ) . |
| 25 | They 're bound to be at least sixty , to eighty pounds a pan I would think , if not |
| 26 | The Bristol Pegasus XXX , rebuilt by Mike Connor at Leesburg , Florida , was found to be in surprisingly good condition during disassembly . |
| 27 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 28 | Britain 's clinical research is widely acknowledged to be in very bad shape . |
| 29 | First , as a support for services that have a national or general significance as opposed to being of simply local concern . |
| 30 | The yew tree is estimated to be at least two thousand years old and required drastic surgery to make it safe . |