Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the evidence about coin finds is of varying quality . |
| 2 | The landscape which generation after generation created is like a classroom blackboard at the end of a day , on which each lesson has been written without entirely erasing the previous one . |
| 3 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 4 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The problem of drug taking is on the increase and we have taken every precaution to prevent it ’ . |
| 6 | If the advantages of decentralization of decision making are to be preserved , firms must be able to operate within a set of rules for competition that enable them to identify what strategies are likely to attract scrutiny , and what strategies they can pursue without hindrance . |
| 7 | Sir Bryan of course had been in touch with the Chief Constable about the security and policing of the tournament . |
| 8 | Many of us wished that the same breadth of opportunity had been on offer in our own day . |
| 9 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 10 | The Treaty of Rome contained no specific references to the need for the Community to develop an Industrial Policy , consequently the main focus towards industry has been on competition policy , and on the creation of the SEM . |
| 11 | Within these phenomena four main areas of study have been of interest to rural geographers ; first , and most enduring of all , the study of rural population change ; second , and more recent in its concern , the study of rural communities ; third , and of more general relevance to other chapters in this book , the classification and definition of rural areas by both their population and employment characteristics ; and fourth , the study of employment in rural areas . |
| 12 | In LEAs where a scheme of delegation has been in place over a period of years , the question of making more money soon arises . |
| 13 | The main method of revision has been by the publication of new editions . |
| 14 | The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day . |
| 15 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 16 | Later theoretical developments of psychoanalysis have been by analysts who have largely given up this second requirement of a theoretical conceptualization , yet it was a fundamental one for Freud himself . |
| 17 | Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability . |
| 18 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
| 19 | Other than that , the main focus of attention has been on whether corporatist state administration is bureaucratic ( Etzioni-Halevy 1983 , pp. 69–71 ) . |
| 20 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 21 | One method of dating finds is by the use of typology , the importance of which was demonstrated by Pitt-Rivers . |
| 22 | The actual form of organisation adopted was by no means standardised but in each case it was subject to direct political control [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 23 | The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity have been at Bartestree Convent in Herefordshire for 130 years . |
| 24 | The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity have been at Bartestree Convent in Herefordshire for 130 years . |
| 25 | Teaching is almost always by the expository method of demonstration and description , and the kind of learning involved is at a lower level of the hierarchy . |
| 26 | Most records of movement have been to the west , which may not be significant . |
| 27 | The prohibition of cannabis is no more effective now than the prohibition of alcohol has been in the past . |
| 28 | Conversely Newco may be entitled to deductions of VAT if the change of use has been from exempt use to taxable use . |
| 29 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 30 | If Laura dropped in conversation that a piece of furniture had been in the family for generations , who was to argue ? |