Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun] [vb base] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : Increase the bank column by £350 and increase the profit and loss column by £350 for sales as in this case the earnings process is complete and receipt of money is certain . |
| 2 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 3 | In the present case the plaintiffs have been unable to suggest why the defendant should lose his home as well as his brother by reason of the death of his brother . |
| 4 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 5 | of course our members er of which we 've got a hundred and twenty three thousand , flood the lines into Luton wanted to know what happens they imagined a surplus as being some pot of er big tub of notes that they can dip it and we can dip into , but of course the surpluses have been used basically by British Telecom in particular for funding early retirement schemes er we 're in no way in knowledge whether the money 's every been paid back . |
| 6 | Your application was one of a number which were recommended only in reduced form , by following the committee decision the costs have been raised to those in your original application . |
| 7 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 8 | Not by the route the signposts have been urging ever since faraway Loch Carron but by way of Corran Ferry after a protracted series of diversions and deviations . |
| 9 | As a result the programs have been very successful and I have sold copies to many colleges and universities , mainly in Britain but some overseas . |
| 10 | The greatest fear the airmen have is of what could happen to the people of Somalia after the international forces leave . |
| 11 | As the block lies close to the coast the partners have been particularly aware of local environmental sensitivities . |
| 12 | Despite a large amount of research into automatic speech recognition the results have been unimpressive . |
| 13 | Community and leisure services committee chairman , John Palmer commented : ‘ It 's a case of great concern that the excellent work the CAB do is putting great strain on staff . |
| 14 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 15 | By introducing specialist training and good management the bikes have been used extensively . |
| 16 | Since the Conservatives lost control of the council the politicians have been very poor stewards of our affairs and I do n't think they 'll be missed at all . |
| 17 | Then John Williams , head of Chrysalis A&R , makes a few crap jokes about the wonderful marketing campaign the EC have been doing , plastering the blue'n'yellow LP cover all over Europe , before weighing in with a Mike Smash-style ‘ cue the music ’ and actually playing three ‘ cuts ’ from the album . |
| 18 | ‘ Since the separation the princesses have been whisked from one holiday hotel to another and moved house . |
| 19 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 20 | From a very early period the courts have been opposed to restrictions upon the free alienation of land . |
| 21 | At this point the brothers have been known to make a few derogatory remarks about the ability of ‘ newfangled ’ machinery to make this fine distinction . |
| 22 | While empirical evidence relating unemployment levels to the unionization level in the USA provides some support for the analysis , the major point the authors offer is that the explicit or implicit adoption of price-taking competitive behaviour in macro modelling is misleading . |
| 23 | Steering without an effective rudder would have been difficult even with calm waters ; in the last decade the waters have been anything but calm . |
| 24 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 25 | On the whole the changes have been very successful . |
| 26 | ( b ) Adolescents in need There is a separate and additional duty for every local authority " to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who has reached the age of 16 and whose welfare the authority consider is likely to be seriously prejudiced if they do not provide him with accommodation " ( s20(3) ) . |
| 27 | It provides us with an appeal to a constituency the Tories have been allowed to monopolise . |
| 28 | However , from such a small island herd the exports have been phenomenal and it has spread from the tropics to the Arctic . |
| 29 | When the fear and agony the blancs feel is transferred through the mirror … . ’ |
| 30 | For the past month the Clintonians have been working with opinion polls and focus groups , all the paraphernalia of selling soap , to devise exactly the policy the public will accept . |