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

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1 Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types .
2 The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself .
3 March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season .
4 Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location .
5 The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state .
6 Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems .
7 The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’
8 Our talk has been of non-commuting observables or the Fourier analysis of wavepackets .
9 The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions .
10 Frequently the key to advance is in better ways of measuring or quantifying technical processes , or material advances which in themselves remove one of the constraints on development .
11 The contractions recorded were of varying amplitudes , and Cook et al 's tracings show good reproduction by the open tipped tube recordings of both the shape and amplitudeof contractions measured from the serosal strain gauges throughout a wide range of amplitudes .
12 The once prestigious PSI returned 5 members only ; indeed , none of the other 23 parties represented were in double figures : most had one or two members .
13 According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs .
14 At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing .
15 blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you
16 American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive .
17 ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers .
18 The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’
19 ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said .
20 It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount .
21 The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges .
22 But unlike the Towyn flood , areas hit were in large pockets spread around Aberconwy .
23 Dr Curtis had been in four times .
24 They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things .
25 The transactions covered are in broad terms financial agreements .
26 Perhaps Bad Schwarzendorn had been in Allied hands by then .
27 Two-thirds were in less-developed countries , whereas five years previously about half the world 's known HIV infections had been in developed countries ( mostly in the USA ) .
28 But Karen had been on these holidays before .
29 The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services .
30 Gary Needham , general manager , said MCP has been in preliminary talks with Thompson but remained tight lipped on the nature of any agreement .
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