Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thirdly the inducement in some countries for employers to federate was as a result of actual or threatened state intervention in the employment relationship , or sometimes because of the growing complexities of the legislative framework under which employers had to operate . |
| 2 | The impetus for employers to associate was particularly marked for those undertakings which operated in highly ( and often increasingly ) competitive product and factor markets , provided that most of the market could be covered . |
| 3 | Gates or pens for pedestrian access and ‘ slot and bar ’ for cyclists have been installed to limit access to the intended users and keep out motor cyclists , cars and other unauthorised motor vehicles . |
| 4 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 5 | All other world class through dives have been made in places such as Florida , with crystal clear warm water and roomy passages , often using underwater scooters . |
| 6 | Even the most powerful of the Duke 's vassals , the Counts of Angoulême , who for generations had been accustomed to act as though they were independent princes , had twice conceded defeat , in 1176 and 1179 . |
| 7 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 8 | Where a number of service points are involved — as they would be in a centrally organized stock revision for a public library authority — the choice of locations for titles ordered is an additional complication . |
| 9 | Is it not also a fact that waiting lists for houses to rent are increasing and have more than trebled since the Conservatives took office ? |
| 10 | A comprehensive energy efficiency labelling scheme for houses has been launched by MVM , a consultancy specialising in property and planning information . |
| 11 | Remaining with the EC , calls for proposals have been issued for two major research and development programmes — the Environment Programme and RACE II ( Communications Technologies ) . |
| 12 | The equipment already purchased for estates work is at present unlinked to the LAN but may be in the future for more efficient financial management . |
| 13 | The motives for bequests have been discussed in Lecture 3 , where we noted that the formulation underlying ( 9–12 ) provides no explanation as to why bequests enter the utility function . |
| 14 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 15 | Since then the exchange value of the currency has fallen by 78% , but any advantages for exports have been eroded by rising domestic prices . |
| 16 | The design process has been unnecessarily slow on many projects because the exchange of information between designers has been ineffective . |
| 17 | The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary . |
| 18 | Poland was strategically placed between Russia and Germany , and for centuries had been a bone of contention between them . |
| 19 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 20 | And this general approach has been supported by recent sequencing studies , so the the channels have been er the C D N A for the channels has been sequenced , and that indicates that the evolutionary relationships between channels have been based er have arisen er pri primarily on the basis of their gating properties rather than on the basis of their ionic selectivity . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 22 | The change in the exchange rate would continue automatically until the price difference for cars had been eliminated . |
| 23 | Corporal Paul Moreton , 28 , of Nuneaton , and Trooper Denis Brownhill , 20 , of Birmingham were named after relatives had been located . |
| 24 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 25 | The argument advanced by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz that human societies needed to be interpreted as texts has been especially influential on New Historicist thought . |
| 26 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 27 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 28 | More large pay rises for directors have been revealed . |
| 29 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |
| 30 | It was our unclouded commitment to women , and greater insistence that the fundamentals of sexism should be tackled without compromise , that brought youth service attention back to the young women who for decades had been excluded by boys and men . |