Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Selection between factory and user presets is via the User/Preset button which illuminates the attendant LED . |
| 32 | In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane . |
| 33 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 34 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 35 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 36 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 37 | Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches . |
| 38 | The last thing the retailer wants is to be left with a lot of stock that does n't sell . |
| 39 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 40 | The police national computer has been in operation since 1974 . |
| 41 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 42 | But staff here agree the assessment has been of little value . |
| 43 | The university has been under curfew and restraint for months . |
| 44 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 45 | That is why the board has been considering developing an alternative system jointly with NASDAQ , the American over-the-counter market . |
| 46 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 47 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 48 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 49 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 50 | Ray 's only other acting experience has been with his school plays . |
| 51 | We know what the experience has been over the years . |
| 52 | Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame . |
| 53 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 54 | Bowlby has been under pressure ever since the Cheltenham Gold Cup , over his riding tactics on Golden Freeze , coincidentally brought down at The Chair in Thursday 's John Hughes Memorial Chase here . |
| 55 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 56 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 57 | Building surveying is by definition a very technical skill . |
| 58 | Over the last five years , plans for a road linking Spain and France have gone ahead , a ski resort has been built and the environment ministry has been at odds with local politicians over their attempts to implement hunting and traffic in areas thought crucial to the bear 's survival . |
| 59 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 60 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |