Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking its impetus from the alleged crash of a flying saucer at Roswell in 1947 and the supposed recovery of alien bodies , this is the theory that the US government has been in contact with aliens for years , but has kept it secret . |
| 2 | By the same token the cinema industry in America , which has dominated the twentieth century and contributed more than any other force to the primacy of the visual image , does also create new audiences for books which are sold as ‘ the book of the film ’ despite their having been in print as classics for many years . |
| 3 | As was intimated earlier , less formal approaches to the inflationary biases which may be endemic within certain systems of industrial relations have been in circulation among Keynesians for many decades . |
| 4 | He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century , since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland , as a midshipman , in the First World War . |
| 5 | Francis Mangon , an inventive lighting designer , had been brought over from America to be in charge of productions for the Plaza company . |
| 6 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 7 | Lugg Meadows alongside the river in Hereford is already an SSSI , but is under threat from plans for the city 's eastern bypass . |
| 8 | The paragraph goes on to hint that the report is in sympathy with calls for development in ‘ social lending ’ rather than commercial lending at this level . |
| 9 | The International Association for Plant Taxonomy ( IAPT ) is working on a plant name standard — Names in Current Use ( NICU ) ; Kew is working on authority name abbreviations ; bibliographic standards include BPH for periodical names and TL-2 for taxonomic literature ; the DELTA standard descriptive language has been written by Mike Dallwitz ; standard geographic descriptors written by ISO and others exist , and further work is in progress on standards for recording conservation status . |
| 10 | This is an important opportunity to discuss drug testing in sport in Scotland and indeed is in response to enquiries for information from many governing bodies . |
| 11 | The threat to employ outside contractors is in line with plans for hiving off parts of the ambulance service sketched out by Mr Clarke during the dispute . |
| 12 | One is Hill Air Force Base in Ogden , Utah , which is in charge of parts for F-16s . |
| 13 | The third is sexual love and enough illustrative material is on show in cinemas for me not to need to labour this point . |
| 14 | Confirmatory diagnosis is by examination of faeces for eggs ; for differentiation from other nematodes , larval identification following faecal culture may be necessary . |
| 15 | At the very end of his life there was also a suggestion that he was in receipt of bribes for the release of prisoners at Newgate , though this allegation seems not to have been proved . |
| 16 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 17 | The strike was in support of demands for better pay and conditions following unsuccessful negotiations with TCL . |
| 18 | But this in itself did not lead to Worcester being an obvious target for government to focus attention on , since such a reduction was in line with predictions for other hospitals . |
| 19 | By Aug. 31 a fragile ceasefire was in place in preparations for negotiations on Abkhazia 's status beginning on Sept. 3 . |