Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | One of the dualities noted was that of hard/soft ; another was that of difficult/easy . |
| 34 | The companies involved are all foreign : at Ballymoney the Australian Meekatharra Minerals Ltd ; at Loughbeg , Anglo United Development Corporation , an associate of Northgate of Canada and Grenmore Holdings Ltd ( a British company which later changed its name to the more local-sounding Tyrone Lignite Ltd ) ; in the Coagh and Washing bay areas BP Coal Ltd , a subsidiary of the giant BP oil company . |
| 35 | Keys cited are those of the principal movements ( airs , dances , choruses ) in each scene . |
| 36 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 37 | Doctors have had dozens of enquiries for what family planners claim is another step forward in a woman 's right to choose . |
| 38 | Putting these together , it would mean that a life-saving service would not have by any means the highest priority if the lives saved were few or were ones of mere existence . |
| 39 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 40 | B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) . |
| 41 | What pupils and parents require is some notion of progress in relation to other people , that is norm-referenced data ; in relation to mathematical objectives , that is criterion-referenced data ; and in relation to pupils ' own earlier performances . |
| 42 | The areas chosen are all areas where the bilateral relationship is strongly apparent , and where the impact of bilateral action upon third parties may provoke a third party response : treaty law , international judicial and arbitral procedure , and responsibility for an international wrong , with particular reference to armed conflict . |
| 43 | In a strife-torn country where terrorist hijacking and hostage taking is a common occurrence , full-blown sieges have been few and far between . |
| 44 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 45 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 46 | One of the most useful class outlines to appear is that developed by Portes and is used here as a guide to the ramifications of class ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 47 | For simplicity , we assume that the eigenvalues sought are all different . |
| 48 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 49 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 50 | However much controversy may have arisen subsequently over the presence in each of these formations of emigres , by far the most obvious group of non-Soviet nationals involved were these Germans . |
| 51 | You only have about two weeks left is that right ? |
| 52 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 53 | Seasoned media watchers have been much concerned with Richard Ingrams of late . |
| 54 | Undoubtedly , the most dramatic events of recent years have been those associated with the disintegration of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe . |
| 55 | Neo-classical economists have been much preoccupied with exploring the conditions under which market coordination leads to the ‘ best ’ or ‘ socially optimal ’ allocation of resources . |
| 56 | Throughout Man 's long association with the Horse , the most successful horsemen have been those who have used some degree of knowledge of psychology or understanding of the horse , rather than trying to dominate the horse with force . |
| 57 | Among the first series of guidebooks published were those of Baedeker and of John Murray who published a two volume eight hundred-page Handbook for London in 1849 — not exactly a pocket guide . |
| 58 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |
| 59 | Other topics listed were all covered by a majority of courses . |
| 60 | But after taking their patients to hospital , the six ambulancemen involved were all suspended without pay for refusing to work normally . |