Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office .
2 To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the total figure will be for new road schemes in the Antrim , South constituency for ( a ) 1992-93 , ( b ) 1993-94 and ( c ) 1994-95 .
3 Multi-millionaire Richard Branson agreed with the move to curb pay but he reckons that this is a negative avenue and a more positive move would be for big UK companies with cash ( the likes of Hanson , GEC , etc ) to start splashing it about .
4 erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information .
5 It would be like those seafood emporia where you can choose your own lobster .
6 Must be like those miracle elixirs and things that people pay fortunes for .
7 These may be into existing degree schemes in the same college or another , into specially planned third-year academic or professional courses , or into employment ’ .
8 But Making Out highlights how important it is for women to have a job and be with other women workers — often in very crummy circumstances , but actually being very resilient with a lot of humour and girl talk .
9 The opportunity to be with other Patois speakers and to both hear and use Patois is obviously critical " ( p.105 ) .
10 But the main problems appear to be with residential home owners , who have threatened legal action over allegedly unfair contracts drawn by some SSDs .
11 They have easy bleeding and bruising too ; catarrhal complaints may be with inflamed mucous membranes which bleed easily .
12 Erm , I do n't , I do n't know what er people are er afraid of , or frightened of really , j just by sending a couple of delegates from the trades councils that would er voice the concerns of the rank and file , it 's not going to er set any dangerous precedents , and let's , let's not forget that those people would be from recognized trades unions as well .
13 The badges , now faded , appear to be from various air forces which fought during World War Two .
14 We would therefore not expect a yield curve to be constructed using both government and corporate bonds , since these would be from different risk classes .
15 ‘ He has damaged the ligaments but the nature of the injury makes us more hopeful of recovery than we would be from some ankle injuries . ’
16 Such groups are also likely to reinforce their existing role in the mobilization of savings , and it will be in mutual savings organizations , rather than formal financial institutions , that small-scale producers will find access to credit .
17 With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels .
18 Just as you know you must be in certain lecture halls for certain regular lectures , so you need to know where you should be for other forms of study .
19 The sack should be in certain Karrimor agents ' shops by now , priced £350 , but at present it will only fit people of average size or bigger — those who take , say , size 42–47 boots .
20 In the second outcome , we discover that females are more likely to be in low status jobs , and that people in such jobs are more likely to go absent , but that being female , once type of job is controlled , does not affect absentee behaviour directly .
21 A causal interpretation of the bivariate effect would have been entirely faulty : it was purely a product of women being both more likely to be in low status jobs and more likely to be absent .
22 If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence .
23 Their names will be in Japanese history books if they can persuade the Soviet leader to hand back the islands .
24 The remainder would be in psychogeriatric assessment wards and in the long-stay wards of psychiatric hospitals .
25 The jobs would largely be unskilled and semi-skilled and a high proportion would be in inner city areas , where high unemployment bites particularly badly .
26 Their data show that German engineers are more likely to be in key management positions than their British counterparts ( who are relatively poorly paid even in UK terms ) , and they draw a general contrast between the ‘ profit-centred ’ approach which they find in Britain , and the ‘ product-centred ’ one they find in Germany :
27 enterprise model it is inevitable that our information will be coming from multiple vendors and our data will be in heterogeneous data sources .
28 Timbury recommended that approximately half of such psychogeriatric accommodation should be in continuing care units .
29 For Scotland this would mean that in 1996 there would require to be approximately 7,860 psychogeriatric beds of which little under 4,000 should be in continuing care units .
30 Both fighters have to be in left fighting stances , at the correct range , for it to be applied correctly .
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