Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing opportunity for this to be ‘ played out ’ in the security of the school can be of help . |
| 2 | Referring clinicians gave permission for this to be carried out and the study was approved by the local Hospital Ethical Committee . |
| 3 | That is true , but if somebody applied for planning permission tomorrow or a or a renewal of planning permission , it would be difficult if not impossible to refuse permission for those to be committed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , they are sometimes too short of money for this to be possible . |
| 5 | Even the article in the local paper had seemed on a quick glance through earlier to be all right . |
| 6 | Identification among the members of a crowd , or group , leads to demands for all to be equal ; given the numbers involved , it is not possible for particular individuals to be the favourite , so a reaction-formation grows up , expressed as a group demand for social justice and equality . |
| 7 | But Mr Gorbachev may judge the risks of non-reform to be even higher . |
| 8 | The idea was that light waves traveled at a speed of 186,000 miles a second through the ether , which meant that an observer who was at rest relative to the ether would measure the speed of light to be about 186,000 miles a second , but an observer who was moving through the ether would measure a higher or lower speed . |
| 9 | The Annual Closed Week at the beginning of October enables a formal programme of stock-checking to be carried out : in October 1990 a total of 46,182 volumes were thoroughly checked . |
| 10 | With a number of stocks going ex-dividend , market-makers estimated the combined effect of this to be a 6½ point knock to the Footsie . |
| 11 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 12 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 13 | The reliability of the climate scales permits a mean score difference between any two organizations of 0.25 to be considered significant ( provided that the means are based on a substantial sample of individuals ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , and you should be able to see the bottom of the rear tyres of the car in front to be able to manoeuvre round it if need be . |
| 15 | Instant access to your savings in unlikely to be your prime concern , but you will be looking to obtain an attractive return on your money over the longer term . |
| 16 | Even if one assumed the uptake of Ac-ASA to be the total measured drug , including the adherent component ( 30.7 nmol/g dry weight ) , it would still be significantly inferior to the uptake of 5-ASA . |
| 17 | The mathematics includes equations relating variables and allowing the values of some to be deduced , given the values of others . |
| 18 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 19 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it would be kind of nice to be a grandfather . |
| 21 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 22 | The population of this delightful little town was estimated in the official census of 1894 to be 19,722 , most of them Martiniquians — a hybrid mixture of creole , mulatto , negro and coolie — with a few French government officials and civil servants . |
| 23 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 24 | On Jan. 31 the Executive Yuan approved an ambitious six-year development plan for 1991-96 to be financed in part by a massive flotation of government bonds . |
| 25 | There are no general regulations in the UK governing the type of medium to be used for archival recording , although some regulations stipulate additional conditions for electronic records ; and certain authorities have the right to require that their approval is obtained before a company relies exclusively on electronic records , for example : |
| 26 | The delegates also agreed that ( i ) during this interim period , President César Gaviria Trujillo should rule by decree aided by a committee of 18 to be elected by the Assembly on July 2 ; ( ii ) current government ministers and delegates of the Constituent Assembly would be barred from running for office ; and ( iii ) congressmen serving three or four consecutive terms would , in the future , be declared ineligible for further office but this norm would not be retroactive . |
| 27 | If an indicator of social deprivation is additional to mortality , then how are the effects of each to be identified and understood ? |
| 28 | However , common sense dictates that for a boy of 14 to be away from home and unsupported with no income , home or friends , is a very serious , vulnerable and lonely situation for him to be in , especially when this is for a period of three months . |
| 29 | But identifying the principal active ingredient of alcoholic drinks was a vital step forward in that it allowed the quantity of intoxicant to be measured accurately , always the first step in any proper study of drugs and their actions . |
| 30 | The continuing spell of dry weather in much of eastern Britain has caused recharge to groundwater in the winter of 1990/91 to be much less than normal , and groundwater levels are greatly depressed in consequence , particularly in the Chalk of East Anglia . |