Example sentences of "[prep] [vb base] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became known as Say 's Law , named after the French economist Jean Baptiste Say ( 1767–1832 ) . |
| 2 | ( For a critique of Deem 's emphasis on the relations of capital rather than those of patriarchy , see Nava , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Independent predictors of anti-HEV were age over 25 years , less than elementary education , antibodies to hepatitis C virus , and residence in the warmest region ( Adana ) . |
| 4 | In some ways ‘ Kaldor 's Law ’ could be seen as a re-statement of Say 's Law : supply creates its own demand . |
| 5 | Much of SAVE 's work takes the form of responses to Mayday calls from local people concerned about the imminent loss of a local landmark . |
| 6 | Max Hanna , an economist at the English Tourist Board who was joint author of SAVE 's Preservation Pays , calculated that the preservation of the Cathedral was then worth £5 million gross income , or £1.5 million net , each year to the local economy . |
| 7 | 1977 saw the opening of the major Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ Change and Decay : The Future of our Churches ’ , which was organized by two of SAVE 's committee members . |
| 8 | Following publication of SAVE 's report , Michael Heseltine listed the building , and the City Corporation reacted immediately by applying for consent to demolish . |
| 9 | The latest of SAVE 's publications is Bright Future : The Re-Use of Industrial Buildings , written with the architect Francis Machin , who is best known for his futuristic conservatories , but whose conversions include the transformation of my own barn into a library and office . |
| 10 | The key to the success of SAVE 's publications , and indeed our message as a whole , is conveyed in one word : photographs . |
| 11 | The title of Cater 's article ( 1977 ) , ‘ Soil erosion : the problem persists despite the billions spent on it ’ , speaks for itself . |
| 12 | Manman/X is the Unix version of Ask 's business information system that supports all aspects of manufacturing . |
| 13 | If glass vessels were prestigious drinking vessels , one might expect their cheaper equivalents to appear in the ceramic assemblage ; true skeuomorphs are not present amongst the pottery , although there is a strong similarity between the turned wooden vessels with metal rims from the Sutton Hoo mound I ship burial and the squat jars of Harden 's type VIII ( 1956b ; 1978 ) . |
| 14 | Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors . |
| 15 | This was mostly because the $40.3 billion charged to its cards was far ahead of Discover 's $19.4 billion , and because Citibank had built up three times as much outstanding debt as Discover . |
| 16 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 17 | Topics covered include creating custom formats , creating charts with Excel 's ChartWizard , generating reports and editing the worksheet . |
| 18 | Both are replacing minicomputer-based systems with Clarify 's ClearSupport technical support management system , shipping this month . |
| 19 | In Deem 's view , it is not surprising that the dominant gender code of schooling in Britain is that of strong classification since there is a strong sexual division of labour within British society . |
| 20 | In SAVE 's experience , most listed buildings under imminent threat have not been offered for sale . |
| 21 | The Boards have a duty to keep the church ‘ in good repair ’ but , in SAVE 's experience , some fail to carry out even the most basic maintenance . |
| 22 | In SAVE 's experience , one of the best alternatives is a careful conversion into an open-plan office . |
| 23 | In SAVE 's view this decision was self-contradictory and made a nonsense of the law , so SAVE immediately set about investigating the possibility of legal action . |
| 24 | This was included in SAVE 's report , Empty Quarters . |
| 25 | Many of these churches were included in SAVE 's report , Churches at Risk . |
| 26 | Jot will be supported in Go 's PenPoint operating system by year-end , and Microsoft will implement it in Windows for Pen , while General Magic will make it part of Telescript , its cross-system communications standard . |
| 27 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 28 | He had never felt so abandoned as here at the top of this tall silent house on Usher 's Quay . |
| 29 | There was a desperate look on Bicker 's face though , oddly , Isay 's eyes were as bright with anger as Ratagan 's had been and the Myrcan staff was out of his belt and cocked in his fists . |