Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many old people are as good a set of consumers as anyone else , but the very old and frail are at risk . |
| 2 | Among the 31 pits on British Coal 's hit list is Point of Ayr , near Prestatyn , where the jobs of 478 are on the line . |
| 3 | His theory is that , as they were fourth on the water , the Spanish are at least fourth favourites to win . |
| 4 | The conclusions from that are of profound consequence . |
| 5 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 6 | Does he agree that it is the height of irresponsibility to try to pretend that there can be a massive increase in spending from day one of a Government if the tax increases to pay for that are to be phased in ? |
| 7 | There is an externality about the Buddhist symbol 's application here , and the doubts raised by that are with self-vindication . |
| 8 | But the reasons for that are in the general principle that people are responsible for the consequences of their actions . |
| 9 | Erm I would like to apologize on behalf of myself and my proof reading team for the fact that two calls for nominations that erm that are in this newsletter do n't actually appear to have closing dates on them . |
| 10 | The ceiling frescos in the chancel are by V. V. Reiner and the carvings of 1636–7 are by M. Schönherr . |
| 11 | For the person with these projects the forwarding of them has an importance to which utilitarianism can not do justice , for it must regard them as simply among the many preferences of which as many as possible are to be satisfied . |
| 12 | Indeed , the innovation opportunities that changes in the numbers of people and their age distribution , education , occupations , and geographic location make possible are among the most rewarding and least risky of entrepreneurial pursuits . |
| 13 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 14 | The current orders outstanding are worth £540 million . |
| 15 | Two of the areas outstanding are in user information and in user training . |
| 16 | Commercial and technical are at parity . |
| 17 | In the first place , while countries listed from 1 to 92 are in strict GNP per capita order , countries 93 , 94 and 95 ( South Africa , Ireland and Italy ) all have lower per capita figures than 92 ( Israel ) . |
| 18 | Some of those 500 are in surplus and , as the health service is a unified service , those surpluses can be transferred to deal with the problems . |
| 19 | Of the Assembly 's members 500 are from the legislative House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , to which 400 were elected for a five-year term by direct universal adult suffrage in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] ; the remaining 100 were appointed by the President . |
| 20 | Of the MPR 's members 500 are from the House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat — DPR ) , the country 's legislative organ , and the remaining 500 are government appointees ( often from the armed forces ) , delegates of regional assemblies and representatives of parties and groups , the latter appointed in proportion to their elective seats in the DPR . |
| 21 | A further eleven are under construction with a combined capacity of 11,908 MW and another eight are planned with a capacity of 10,547 MW . |
| 22 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 23 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 24 | The Eider and the Shell Tern and North Cormorant platforms also on alert are in the Shell Brent Field 100 miles north east of Lerwick in the Shetlands . |
| 25 | Detailed discussion of restrictive trade practices which are regulated by anti-trust laws such as the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 are beyond the scope of this work . |
| 26 | True , he needs to be able to read a line on a green , or at least confirm the line into the hole , but getting the yardages right are of paramount importance . |
| 27 | you know , because they do n't know what their right are with And you know , I think places like the law centre , which fight for the rights of people in , you know to develop that that kind of service for people . |
| 28 | THE COMPUTERS on board HMS Sheffield functioned effectively prior to and during the attack ; allegations that the Exocet missile was mistakenly identified as friendly are without foundation . |
| 29 | UNIVERSITY administrators who wasted £11.3 million of taxpayers ' money by re-employing more than 200 redundant academics given ‘ golden goodbyes ’ averaging £80,000 each are to be summoned by the Commons public accounts committee to explain their mistakes . |
| 30 | A note in a dated 1 Sha'ban 963/10 June 1556 concerning the number of to be appointed in the of that year mentions that four new each are to be accepted from the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne , Bursa and Egypt and two each from the kadis of Damascus , Aleppo and Baghdad . |