Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the need for change has been clearly stated and the encouragement to change comes from the highest political levels , the systems through which health care are delivered are traditional and conservative and may not support an individual through changing policies and roles . |
| 2 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 3 | The argument advanced by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz that human societies needed to be interpreted as texts has been especially influential on New Historicist thought . |
| 4 | Although the furore about asylum has been more recent in Great Britain than elsewhere in Europe , it has on occasion been as fierce , particularly as orchestrated by parts of the right-wing tabloid press . |
| 5 | The outlook for Ukraine has been more cheerful in the past few weeks . |
| 6 | It is only our more ambivalent age , engaged in the very last mopping-up of the great wet waste which challenged our ancestors , which has begun to question whether the price of progress has been too high . |
| 7 | In recent years , that pace of change has been particularly rapid . |
| 8 | In particular I think it should be recognised that the role of the unions , NALGO and G M D in helping that process of change has been quite fundamental and for that reason , because we appreciate and value the essential way in which the unions have contributed to the process of changing the organisation I consider that the they much trailed proposals from the opposition groups to cut , or in the other case , to reduce the NALGO office are quite misguided . |
| 9 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 10 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 11 | Despite the limited size of the Urban Programme , the administration of grant has been consistently problematic ( West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Stewart , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | This adaptable group of birds has been very successful at exploiting food resources made available by humans . |
| 13 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 14 | Since they published the ’ Sanitary Protection Scandal ’ ( a report on the production of sanitary towels , tampons and ’ disposable ’ nappies and their health and environmental implications ) , the level of response has been almost too much for WEN 's small City Road office . |
| 15 | This research aims , first , to explain why the general pattern of income has been largely resistant to attempts at change through legislation , government policy and interest-group pressure ; secondly , to review the many kinds of research on income distribution ; thirdly , to identify criteria for , and means of , improvement . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH THE landscape of Sussex has been substantially modified by man , the basic geology and soil types still have an important bearing on the vegetation and crops , and hence the habitats available for birds now found in the county . |
| 17 | But as yet no feature of parenting has been convincingly established as being a causal factor in the first onset of the disorder despite observations by numerous investigators that parent-child relationships are often atypical in a number of ways . |
| 18 | Wherever I have observed transactions of this kind the balancing of accounts has been very carefully worked out . |
| 19 | And then second er the meaning and practice of confirmation has been much debated among us . |
| 20 | A sudden emergency may make a situation far more complicated to deal with if no plan of action has been previously thought over . |
| 21 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 22 | As with the German scheme , the reaction of industry has been largely hostile . |
| 23 | Our revised code of guidance has been warmly welcomed by authorities . |
| 24 | The list of observed bands ( Table 5.12 ) shows that all the IR bands observed coincide with Raman bands ( within 20 cm -1 , which is close enough considering that IR and Raman spectra are of different phases ) , and the number of Raman bands is indeed nine . |
| 25 | There has been the occasional quickening of the establishment pulse from time to time when one in line to succeed to the Crown has seemed to develop too intense an interest in a Roman Catholic but despite that , the anticipated line of succession has been perfectly followed subject to only one scandalous disruption when Edward VIII preferred to marry a divorcee to retaining the monarchy . |
| 26 | The Soviet acquisition of computers has been relatively late … |
| 27 | It is possible , then , that the idea of antiracism has been so discredited that it is no longer useful . |
| 28 | The concept of altruism has been much discussed . |
| 29 | The losses begin again ( verse 31 ) " as at other times " — and in this case the scale of loss has been clearly preserved , for about 30 Israelites ( not apparently sword-armed soldiers ) . |
| 30 | I would like to say that , that the level of violence has been fairly static , but at the same time we are able to tolerate certain levels of violence . |