Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 2 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 3 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 4 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 5 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 6 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 7 | One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki . |
| 8 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 9 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 10 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 11 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 12 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 13 | Selection between factory and user presets is via the User/Preset button which illuminates the attendant LED . |
| 14 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 15 | We know what the experience has been over the years . |
| 16 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 17 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 18 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 19 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 20 | ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals . |
| 21 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 22 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 23 | The entire replica fleet aboard the carrier flown was from the deck into the rising sun of the east in some of the most visually stunning scenes of the film . |
| 24 | The Town and Country Planning Association has been in the forefront of plans to promote a change in government policy on the North-South Divide . |
| 25 | Ever since then , Labour has been on the defensive , both ideologically and demographically . |
| 26 | As for any signal of a new direction under Louis Gerstner , IBM stresses that the bid has been in the works for months . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Most of the talk has been on the Rocastle situation . |
| 29 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 30 | The Australian tobacco industry has been on the very sick list for at least the past 16 years , with adult per capita consumption falling by about one third to its present annual level of 1827 grams . |