Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our trips and good times programmes are of course entirely optional . |
| 2 | If this is accepted , in-house studies of use and surveys soliciting user opinions are amongst the most significant use measures . |
| 3 | Cholesterol values were in the lower part of the normal range for the 114 cancer patients in the appropriate sex and age matched groups . |
| 4 | And you can find out just what Kenneth Clarke 's budget plans are by watching Central on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 5 | Leaving aside discussion of case loads and the closure of cases ( to be covered below ) the development officers found this referral rate entirely manageable except towards the end of the referral year when case loads were at their peak and referrals were also high ; for example , the development officer in Newham remarked in January l985 ‘ I feel a bit shell-shocked this month with ail the new referrals together with all my problem cases ’ . |
| 6 | The discharged cartridge cases were in the roadway and the gutter , close to the back wheel of the taxi . |
| 7 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2% to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5% to £30.9bn . |
| 8 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2pc to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5pc to £30.9bn . |
| 9 | The only study of ‘ causality ’ for index futures is by Merrick ( 1987 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The release of life sentence prisoners is at the discretion of the Home Secretary , subject to a favourable recommendation by the Parole Board and to consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and , if he is available , the trial judge . |
| 11 | Elaborate and costly sheep houses were to be found on most farms . |
| 12 | As McHale suggests , any ‘ stable world ’ the text projects is at best fragmentary , and is generally ‘ overwhelmed by the competing reality of language ( McHale 1987 : 234 ) . |
| 13 | Does the Leader of the House acknowledge that the discussions in which Ministers are involved in the European Commission regarding the MacSharry proposals are of fundamental importance to the future of British agriculture ? |
| 14 | The Scottish Agricultural College did a survey to find out what would happen if the MacSharry proposals were to be implemented in the Borders region . |
| 15 | The contours in the CO and CS maps are in 10 linear steps from 1K to 28K and from 0.2K to 1.8K respectively . |
| 16 | Attention was focused particularly on France , where state aid to the Thomson and Bull electronics groups was under examination [ see pp. 38156 ; 38472 ] . |
| 17 | Haberdashers and provision merchants were to be granted a few houses . |
| 18 | His comment — ‘ I skied a great run — almost perfect ’ — was not exactly vintage Billy Johnson but the Swiss fans ecstatically tolling their cow bells were beyond caring . |
| 19 | One of the ways in which the children at the school develop their computer skills is by keeping weather and farm records . |
| 20 | But like just for you to know that , I mean , at the moment , got a slight shortage of staff and , us little Express girlies are like , we 're all sort of desperate to please them well , and because we need to , if a customer rings we 're always there for them and the problem is , I 've got like two phones on my desk at the moment , so , I could guarantee the minute I put my phone down , if anybody else is on the phone ha , bloody phone 's still ringing , I have got to answer it . |
| 21 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 22 | If validation is the establishment that course proposals are of acceptable quality , monitoring , review and evaluation are the processes which attempt to maintain and enhance the quality of courses once they are running . |
| 23 | However , the 1987 budget proposals are for firms with an annual turnover under £250,000 to be able to pay VAT on a cash basis viz. VAT need only be paid when the invoice bearing VAT has actually been paid . |
| 24 | The other reason is that futures contracts are in a state of continuous evolution . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , census returns are amongst the most reliable records that a local and family historian is likely to use . |
| 26 | So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur . |
| 27 | These civilian truck drivers were among more than a hundred evacuated to safer positions . |
| 28 | Such a solution has the disadvantage that , if the transput units are to be driven at anything like their full speed , the programmer must scatter test instructions through his program . |
| 29 | New route books are at . |
| 30 | But now division heads are in a double bind . |