Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But when she looked again , she realized that they were too far away from each other for that to have been possible . |
| 2 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 3 | As First Lady , none of that had been possible . |
| 4 | The impact of that has been different for older and younger generations and has affected the position of each generation in relation to financial support from relatives , and also assistance with accommodation . |
| 5 | The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry . |
| 6 | The effects of this have been massive job losses , the casualization of the labour force , a profound erosion of trade union power , and the virtual cessation of training to replace human capital in the form of skilled labour . |
| 7 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 8 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 9 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 10 | The mill still contains its iron half-breast shot wheel together with all the machinery , stones etc , although much of this has been idle since the early 1950s and has fallen into disrepair . |
| 11 | A number of these had been involved in a similar coup attempt in July 1989 when a smaller group of rebels briefly gained control of the radio station . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important of these has been that public education in England and Wales has been a service provided by public local authorities and paid for out of taxes . |
| 13 | None of these has been prone to takeover bids . |
| 14 | The most spectacular of these have been some magnificent specimens of Verdigris agaric , Stroparia aeruginosa , shown to me by Maureen Defty , a local farmer . |
| 15 | Although planning has a number of wider social implications for rural areas , many of these have been unintentional side-effects of physical planning policies . |
| 16 | And the greatest joy of all to report is that young has got a job in the ‘ City ’ working with some options traders , which is what he had months ago set his heart on . |
| 17 | Lord Aldington told the jury that the fate of many of those repatriated was awful . |
| 18 | Well over half of those killed are young children or elderly people who are overcome by smoke and fumes while they sleep at night — people whose chances of survival would be drastically improved if only they were able to reach safety in time . |
| 19 | But well over half of those killed were young children or elderly people who were quickly overcome by smoke and fumes while they slept at night . |
| 20 | Over 100 of those killed were paramilitary gendarmes who were stationed in the area to counter Kurdish guerrilla activity . |
| 21 | Most of those tested were incomplete bilingually . |
| 22 | Half of those questioned were happy with British Rail 's service , with 31% dissatisfied . |
| 23 | Another opinion poll , published in the magazine Cambio 16 , found that only 8% of those questioned were prepared to die for their country . |
| 24 | Dyadic contracts can be divided into colleague contracts referring to relationships between those of equal status and patron-client contracts , where the status of those involved is different . |
| 25 | Inevitably , not all reports can be covered , and the summaries of those included are brief and highly selective . |
| 26 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |
| 27 | Most of those released are non-political prisoners convicted of criminal offences , but a number of prisoners of conscience will also be released . |
| 28 | As in the previous demonstrations , a large number of those attending were middle class , some of whom had been involved in the demonstrations of 1973 ( which had effectively deposed the existing military dictatorship — see pp. 26209-10 ) and had also witnessed the army massacre of students at Thammasat University three years later [ see pp. 28102-03 ] . |
| 29 | Ninety-six per cent of those accused were Sinhalese , and ninety-one per cent were Buddhists . |
| 30 | Novel animal patterns such as these have been big all year — and they show no sign of disappearing just yet . |