Example sentences of "[be] [det] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecutions by local authorities under the Act of 1950 have little deterrent effect , because the increased sales are such that fines at the level presently authorised under the statute can be absorbed by large retailers as a relatively small increase in their costs , though the same is not true of small shops with their much lower sales . |
| 2 | Now this space and a terrace of standard Great Northern Railway Company houses are all that remain of a venture which attempted to turn Mundesley from a tiny fishing village to a major seaside resort in the early years of this century . |
| 3 | ( c ) The ruined huts are all that remain of the old crofting settlement of Borreraig , an extreme example of the eviction of crofting communities in the 19th century . |
| 4 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 5 | The routes here are many and varied with the grades well represented right through the spectrum to the nasty end of E6 . |
| 6 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 7 | people I know and the only ones I really know are those that come in the shop . |
| 8 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 9 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |
| 10 | Stage 3 Making Operating Decisions — Operating decisions are those that focus on the efficient use of resources available to the firm in the short term and will be embodied in plans , conventionally referred to as budgets . |
| 11 | There are a few that are changed before that and there are those that go beyond the legal limit . |
| 12 | The only parts of this procedure that are not immediately susceptible to practical implementation are those that rely on the assumption of facts about expressions . |
| 13 | But these limitations are more than offset by the sheer quantity of coins and hence of the designs made . |
| 14 | Nor have the costs been high ; at only 14 DM per square metre of street , they are not only absolutely low but are more than offset by the saving to society of the reduced accident level that results . |
| 15 | Small amounts of vitamins and minerals in beer are more than offset by the adverse effect of the alcohol on your nutritional state . |
| 16 | The few quickly-processed updates that are handled first , if direct processing is adopted , are more than counterbalanced by the shorter overall run time and thus better average service performance achieved by batching and sorting . |
| 17 | Under these circumstances , there is little doubt in my mind that the supposed advantages of support teaching are more than outweighed by the disadvantages which it presents . |
| 18 | Thus the points made in the sentence quoted by Price are more than underlined in the final text . |
| 19 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 20 | You will be less than gruntled by the following job application , posted in Sammy Dunlop 's Tackle Shop at Ballydown , outside Banbridge . |
| 21 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 22 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 23 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 24 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts . |
| 26 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 27 | ‘ The short term benefit of certainty in household budgeting can be more than offset by a nasty shock when the rate is revised , ’ said the Abbey , which adds that its research reveals no demand for budget schemes . |
| 28 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 29 | There will be increased printing costs and greater use of school facilities ; but these burdens will be more than offset by the extra revenue generated by parent support . |
| 30 | As in the full employment models considered earlier , the direct impact may be more than offset by the indirect , general equilibrium , effects for example , if the demand response is biased towards capital-intensive industries . |