Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The complete set of values obtained is presented only on the following Figure , but some of the raw data are also given [ see Table ] in order to show the considerable variation between different positions . |
| 3 | The total supply of money in circulation can not , however , be measured , because although the value of coins struck is known for individual years , there is no satisfactory way of estimating how long they remained in circulation . |
| 4 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 5 | Its commonest expression after an account of improvements recorded is a qualifying ‘ however ’ : the report finds that women are seriously under-represented at high levels everywhere . |
| 6 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 7 | Probably some always breed , although this is very infrequently proved , and the numbers of pairs involved is very difficult to estimate . |
| 8 | Option 3 : As described , the sum of pixels seen is computed . |
| 9 | Nowadays there is little real distinction between Proof and Proof before Answer and the greatest majority of cases heard are Proofs before Answer . |
| 10 | Mr Waldegrave said Britain was continuing to press Moscow over long-term ‘ refusenik ’ cases , and had achieved a reasonable response , with more than 70 per cent of cases raised being resolved . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that there are an enormous number of institutions doing major work in this area whose views are not recorded here , and the proportion of institutions represented is reasonably high for a postal survey . |
| 12 | While the number of programmes undertaken is not in itself an indicator of quality or effectiveness , it may be assumed that undertaking relatively little , or virtually no planned systematic training , is certain to be ineffective . |
| 13 | The number of shifts performed is placed in an accessible register called the step counter . |
| 14 | The number of cross-tabulations involved is very large , and significant trends are easily lost . |
| 15 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 16 | The maximum number of rattles observed is 20 . |
| 17 | The length of time they spent there and the types of homes involved are shown in Table 1 . |
| 18 | However , as other methods of investigating the properties of living tissue have been developed , the total number of animals used is beginning to fall . |
| 19 | Those in which the form of words used are based on the definition of a ‘ light industrial ’ use , i.e. a Class III use under the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 , usually referred to as a ‘ no nuisance clause ’ , being imposed to protect the amenity of the locality , and |
| 20 | For our students the total number of units required is 16 , and although more than the minimum 12 necessary to gain the award of a Higher National Certificate , this is considered necessary for FT students who do not have the benefit of on-going industrial experience . |
| 21 | On Merseyside thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and numbers of cars stolen are down to 12,992 an overall drop of nine per cent . |
| 22 | In this example the number of steps executed is fixed and the times between step commands are controlled by the values stored in the look-up table beginning at location TABLE . |
| 23 | Now , the number of quiffs raised is not an indication of how well that job went through the companies or erm , because quiffs could be raised quite minor things like one person forgetting to put something on a form or a form not being photocopied , or procedure changes or others |
| 24 | You 'll see that both the number of requests for service , and the number of visits made are well up on previous half years , and although some of that is due to probably the highest figure on insect complaints we 've ever had for six months , and erm it 's not all that , much of it is lately the department has been very , very busy indeed . |
| 25 | The text was photographic copies of her own handwriting and the thousands of plates required were laboriously produced on hand-coated paper . |
| 26 | The results of companies acquired are included from the effective date of acquisition . |
| 27 | The net assets of companies acquired are incorporated in the consolidated accounts at their fair values to the Group after making provisions for expected reorganisation costs and related gains and losses pending reorganisation . |
| 28 | The net assets of companies acquired are incorporated in the consolidated accounts at their fair values to the group at the date of acquisition . |
| 29 | The majority of parents reported being presented covertly or overtly with an opt-out clause when the diagnosis was first made , often couched in terms of : ‘ Leave the baby here for a couple of days , go home and think about it ’ ( ‘ it ’ being unspecified ) . |
| 30 | The program 's task , given a diagram like that of Figure 2 , is to discover whether the arrangements of blocks depicted is stable , — if it is not — to predict the movements ( falling , sliding , motion ended by contact with another block ) and the final state of various blocks . |