Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a product is entirely integrated within the TNC or its captive suppliers ' networks , or where the intermediate components or materials used are of such a specialized nature that there are simply no available suppliers outside the existing TNC network , then backward linkages are literally forbidden by the logic of global production . |
| 2 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 3 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 4 | He tells me that Spurs have been in touch to say their computer was knackered ( bloody things , who wants em ? ) so there is a delay in sending them out , but we are getting some . |
| 5 | Although units shipped were at a record high , last year 's drastic price-cutting was much in evidence . |
| 6 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 8 | You just said that Englishmen prefer being with other men . |
| 9 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |
| 10 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the Villahermosa told The Art Newspaper that negotiations had been on the basis of a price of Pta35 billion ( £185 million ; $259 million ) for the whole collection , although the Baron and the Ministry of Culture last month mentioned a figure of Pta50 billion ( £300 million ; $420 million ) . |
| 12 | THERE is a curious idea , a remnant of Victorian broadsheet titillation , echoed today by the popular press and in the pontifications of chief police officers , that police work is about ‘ crime-fighting ’ . |
| 13 | Referring to testing I observed that , ‘ a reflex anti-testing reaction would be dismissed as naïve and the sort of soft headedness that hard-liners think is at the root of the problem ’ , but observed that , ‘ effective , constructive , diagnostic testing is expensive and poor testing could distort the curriculum and demoralise learners . ’ |
| 14 | to acknowledge how ‘ well run ’ the wilderness has been ( and presumably would be under the same regime in future ) and how adept their bailiffs and stalkers have been at pursuing ‘ a careful policy of highly selective culling , a scientific approach to hind and calf management . ’ |
| 15 | Everywhere in public life , old families , old money and titles have been in decline , while business has advanced . |
| 16 | The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood . |
| 17 | Conservatives councils in shires , districts and cities have been at the forefront of these reforms . |
| 18 | The report and accounts have been in your hands for the statutory period er , and you 've had the chance to read my statement . |
| 19 | When Mr Patel had passed , the previous evening and that morning , the man 's head and shoulders had been underneath the car , and no , he had not come into the shop at all . |
| 20 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 21 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 22 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 23 | Thus the practical stress of Marxist movements and parties has been on individuals sublimating their own ethical beliefs and judgements to a collective , party-defined line . |
| 24 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 25 | As owner of the present home — if Buildings cover is in force . |
| 26 | I suspect that tensions concerning rights , freedoms and responsibilities have been with us since the earliest days of humanity . |
| 27 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | Most of the brothers were all too well aware of him , but in his absence relaxed , gave thanks and forgot him ; and the novices and schoolboys evaded being in his proximity at all , so far as was possible . |
| 29 | As occupier of the present home and in a personal capacity — if Contents cover is in force . |
| 30 | To his/her domestic employees — if Contents cover is in force . |