Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF . |
| 2 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 3 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 4 | Littlewoods has been through the classic problems of succession for a company built by a single man . |
| 5 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 6 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 7 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 8 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 9 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 10 | It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand . |
| 11 | Written by Sarah Daniels , it is being performed by Clean Break , a theatre company mounting professional productions performed by women who have been through the criminal justice system , including ex-prisoners , ex-probationers and those committed at some time to secure observation and psychiatric units . |
| 12 | Having been through the six months of the greenbelt local plan enquiry , I can say quite clearly to this er examination in public , that I doubt whether there is the land available erm er around the inner edge erm erm to increase the level of of housing development in and around the city without seriously prejudicing greenbelt objectives . |
| 13 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 14 | I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that erm with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching methods that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils , and this has really been justified recently in the O level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their O levels in the school . |
| 15 | And this has really been justified recently in the ‘ O ’ level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their ‘ O ’ levels in the school , and they performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 16 | Unlike North America the involvement of government in economic life has been through the increased regulation of the private sector ; in the U K it has resulted in the public ownership of the industries or utilities concerned . |
| 17 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm an alternative medicine practitioner and I tend to get a lot of people who are depressed coming to see me , people who have been through the normal routes |
| 19 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 20 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 21 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 22 | Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives . |
| 23 | Erm I must say I share Peter 's view here that the er location of the new settlement , whether in general terms or by district , has not been through the public consultation process . |
| 24 | Sadly , though , we have in the past year been through the painful process of shedding a large number of jobs . |
| 25 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 26 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 27 | We 've been through the whole thing with adoption ! |
| 28 | Food which has been through the steaming mode has an appetizing colour , is cooked al dente ( still firm when bitten ) , and retains all the important nutrients , vitamins and minerals . |
| 29 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 30 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |