Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistical techniques of time series analysis ( autocorrelation functions and power spectra ) enabled at least three low frequency components of lymph-node movement to be recognised , though they may not all be active at the same time . |
| 2 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 3 | But at the time that the county council had moved to adopt the policy , we may be in the working the context of regional policy to be issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | The dream that the resort offered was of economic independence by being in business on one 's own . |
| 5 | Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation . |
| 6 | The EEC treaty though running to 248 articles and looking forward to an ‘ ever-closer union ’ , left many elements of economic co-operation to be worked out in detail later . |
| 7 | Developments in electronic diaries allow the problem of retrospective recall to be tested experimentally . |
| 8 | Their inner mood must remain one of complete alertness to be ready to make the final dash to safety . |
| 9 | ( 6 ) Directions as to service of written statements of oral evidence to be called at the trial on the opposite party . |
| 10 | The Province-wide project employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect data and includes a proportion of male respondents within the sample , thereby allowing comparisons of political participation to be drawn on the basis of , among other things , sex and gender . |
| 11 | An annex to the communiqué , based on a paper prepared by the Irish presidency , stated the objective of political union to be " the transformation of the Community from an entity mainly based on economic integration and political co-operation into a union of a political nature , including a common foreign and security policy " . |
| 12 | Norse , Irish , and Norman elements were all competing for an advantage , and the future of the Canterbury claims , which seemed so bright in Anselm 's lifetime , depended too much on obscure cross-currents of political ambition to be assured . |
| 13 | Economic power is political power , and it makes no sense to implement the principle of equality in respect of votes while leaving every other form of political power to be distributed according to the gross inequities of the capitalist market . |
| 14 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 15 | Yet , outside the areas of dispersed settlement — Galicia , the Basque Provinces , and parts of Catalonia — the large agrarian village or small town was a social heritage it was impossible to destroy in the interests of agricultural efficiency ; in arid country the peasant regards the land as the source of a poor livelihood , not as a mystique ; he prefers to live away from it ; the social satisfactions of the pueblo were subsumed in the concept of animacíon , the absence of rural boredom to be found only in an urban or semi-urban community . |
| 16 | He therefore ordered an early dinner of roast mutton to be served in his quarters at three o'clock that afternoon . |
| 17 | There was , I thought then and believe now , much to be learnt in secondary schools from some of the more flexible forms of collegiate organization to be found in higher education . |
| 18 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 19 | You know — unrequited love , more unrequited love , and a bit of rampant lust to be getting on with . |
| 20 | In considering the standards maintained the Minister will consider , in addition to the syllabuses and the quality of the teaching , the length of courses , and the arrangements for written work , reading under guidance and other forms of private study to be done between meetings . |
| 21 | Before leaving his desk the computer supplies a printout of each location to be visited showing the individual name , job title , man number , depot number , hourly/weekly/monthly paid , age , birth date , service , joining date , marital status , salary or wage , total numbers by payroll and average salary or wage . |
| 22 | The final compromise proposed a federation of self-governing territories , defined by nationality , the scattered territories of each nationality to be united in a national council with complete authority in the affairs of that nationality ( which were defined as cultural and linguistic ) . |
| 23 | To fight the physical deterioration in the film stock of the national archive , the institute has compiled a list of 360 key films in cinema history with the aim of acquiring a perfect showprint of each film to be screened in a year-round repertory at London 's Museum Of The Moving Image . |
| 24 | Edouard set aside a part of each day to be with him . |
| 25 | A saw cut in the end of each 1½ × ¾in ash runner has the effect of reducing the thickness of each piece to be bent , in effect allowing a laminated curve attached to a solid straight runner . |
| 26 | The user is given the option of entering a record or simply entering the bibliographic details and classification number of each item to be ordered . |
| 27 | The manager of each package to be updated is checked to determine whether the specified user may carry out the changes . |
| 28 | This allowed the precise cellular site and distribution of each enzyme to be determined . |
| 29 | Affirming that the national curriculum contains significant chemistry , John Holman ( Watford GS ) felt that GCSE balanced science ( close to Key Stage ( KS ) 4 ) enabled more students to experience enough of each science to be able to tackle A-level , though the limited depth and wide range presented problems to sixth form colleges . |
| 30 | In preparing particular sections or blocks of work for classes or groups of pupils which include visually handicapped children it can be useful to code in a mark when drafting the programme to indicate the need for a piece of specific equipment to be available , and check this quickly on a daily basis ( for example , closed circuit television tape recorder ; overhead projector ) . |