Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The definition of the Confederation of British Industry of the United Kingdom work force as ’ under-educated , under-trained and under-qualified ’ ironically does not apply to the majority of refugees , many of whom are highly qualified and skilled . |
| 2 | The Consortium can call on strong legal representation in Mr Burrell and Mrs Kent , both of whom are personally committed and wish to see the matter pursued . |
| 3 | Most of them are locally based and each is responsible for a group of schools or colleges ; they are under seven divisional inspectors . |
| 4 | Fifteen were in metalworking ; most of them were well paid and skilled , as tinsmiths etc . |
| 5 | Admittedly many of them were hardly trained and lacked experience , and in addition they were operating in a more populated area with often unfriendly Arabs . |
| 6 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 7 | Overlying the bedrock is a highly variable thickness ( between 1 m and 20 m ) of glacial and post-glacial deposits , most of which are heavily over-consolidated and commonly known as ‘ boulder clay ’ or ‘ lodgement till ’ . |
| 8 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 9 | The Training Authority has controlled the development of system and materials through direct funding but it has now to be marketed to the NHS in competition with a multitude of alternatives , many of which are long established and closely adapted to local needs . |
| 10 | These statistics and other measures of unemployment , all of which are socially constructed and based on certain assumptions , need to be treated with caution . |
| 11 | The Department is housed in two classrooms and a small study , all of which are pleasantly furnished and help to portray the welcoming , friendly attitude we have towards the pupils . |
| 12 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 13 | It had originally been proposed by James Madison in 1789 as one of a package of 12 measures , 10 of which were quickly approved and became the Bill of Rights . |
| 14 | Like the more recent phenomenological sociologists , Freud saw that there were competing views of reality , some of which were socially maintained and continually reinforced by social processes , others of which were maintained in small groups , families or by one individual alone . |
| 15 | During the 18th Century Turnpike Trusts were set up , partly to build new roads , but mainly to maintain old ones , many of which were poorly surfaced and too badly rutted to carry the increasing traffic . |
| 16 | Most of it 's vastly populated and punctuated by well defined compact small market towns and villages . |
| 17 | The trouble is that some of it 's still attached and so it 's going start erm bu butting again , growing . |
| 18 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 19 | Part of it was actually built and installed . |
| 20 | It involves detailed description of what is actually said and done by the participants . |
| 21 | Psychologists in the last 20 years have had to rediscover much of what was already known and practised by the 1860s . |
| 22 | Such compression into a carefully managed logic allows policemen to deal quickly with what are intensely charged and often dangerous situations , best resolved with the minimum of introspection or self-analysis . |
| 23 | Without help in the form of floor and room numbers , however , the individual within it is completely lost and disorientated . |
| 24 | A distinctive feature of the Dolls ' House was that almost without exception every item in it was specifically commissioned and an integral part of the whole gift — only a few pieces in the house were found in the antique trade or private collections . |
| 25 | Inside it is richly decorated and of the typical open style dictated by the Jesuit Order . |
| 26 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 27 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 28 | There are also worries about the impartiality of the editorial control over what is actually transmitted and whether it would elevate the stature of frontbench performers and depress that of backbenchers even further . |
| 29 | And so it seems to me that erm we must look to you sir and Miss Whittaker to say what you feel as er independent erm hearkeners to the debate er we it 's time as I would say for erm North Yorkshire now to face up to what 's going on in its own territory and remove the planning obstacles to what is actually happening and just to make sure that it 's safely tied up with criteria to make sure it does n't erm erm unhappy consequences instead of the happy consequences that we are trying to achieve . |
| 30 | So everyone thinks that being the is being one that 's really gon na change the world , yeah and I think that the pattern he 's talking about it 's just resurfacing and resurfacing and resurfacing . |