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

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1 Pick products are in use at the Russia Ministry on Finance , and the former foreign trade monopolist Stanko import and Traktoreksport .
2 Big birds weigh more , but a smaller proportion of that weight is fat , ) Corroboration comes from the observation that males who had not formed pairs were in worse condition than those that had .
3 The seven announced products are to be shipped on HP 9000 , IBM RS/6000 , NCR System 3000 , Sun SunOS , Sun Solaris , DEC VAX/VMS and DEC Alpha VMS in 1993 .
4 The seven announced products are to be shipped on Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 , IBM RS/6000 , NCR System 3000 , Sun SunOS , Sun Microsystems Inc Solaris , and Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS and Alpha VMS in 1993 .
5 So far as futures dealing is concerned , the key exclusion is that for market counterparties , although investors in corporate finance transactions can also be excluded ( see page 33 below ) and trust beneficiaries are in any event not customers ( see page 34 below ) .
6 It should be borne in mind , however , that if repeat sequences are to be probed , or if it is known to which chromosome or approximate chromosome region the repetitive or the unique sequences map , procedures can be simplified .
7 PEAS capital gains tax savings were of value only to those whose capital gains had in the given year exceeded the free allowance — not a predicament in which the average punter found himself .
8 Questioned by MORI , an opinion-polling company commissioned by Egon Zehnder , an executive-search firm , only 13% of a 100-strong sample of chief executives from Britain 's 500 biggest firms suggested that representing shareholders was among the top five contributions that outside directors could make to good corporate governance .
9 The company , which is raising the money in a two-for-five rights issue at 155p a share , said attractive opportunities to increase investments were in sight with tenant demand increasing .
10 Checking accounts is in your interest
11 The reappearance of serum markers of HBV often occurred while serum transaminases activities were at or near normal .
12 37 per cent of the students returning questionnaires were in receipt of a CASE award from SERC , while 62 per cent held an ordinary research studentship ( two students did not answer ) .
13 Photographing waves is like photographing women .
14 Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate .
15 The most famous of these fattening pastures are in Northamptonshire , Leicestershire , and Rutland ; others are in North Somerset , parts of Norfolk , the Severn Valley , Northumberland , and eastern Scotland .
16 Whereas both vertical and horizontal lines have stability , sloping lines are in a state of change from one condition to the other .
17 It can be seen from the table above that the most frequently occurring errors are of the substitution type .
18 The crew say lives are at risk until repairs can be completed .
19 Council officials say lives were at risk from mechanical defects , including faulty brakes .
20 But there 's no , people who say things are off the record means that ‘ I do n't want to be , but I want it to get into the system ’ .
21 But naturally occurring holes are in relatively short supply .
22 Particularly in parts of the world such as Australia the planation surfaces contribute a major part of the geomorphological story and Ollier ( 1979 , p. 534 ) has concluded that process studies are of limited value ; the present is not invariably the key to the past , much of Australia is not in equilibrium with the present conditions of base level , tectonics or climate , and cyclic theories do not fit the Australian scene very well .
23 Destruction of vermin on county council owned farms is within the remit of the tenant farmer .
24 The transport animal in the middle Ob and Yenisei regions was originally the dog , but its use to pull sledges was on a primitive level , and only the Khantys and Mansis sometimes harnessed dogs in teams .
25 If multiprocessing desktops are on the agenda , and all indications are that they will appear later — ie next year — rather than sooner , then they 'll definitely use a higher performance PA RISC 7100 part ( currently at 99MHz ) that HP will first introduce in a new uniprocessor system .
26 Almost all the Spanish companies in which the Grupo Torras has stakes are in trouble , threatening some 30,000 jobs directly .
27 Similarly , the reason why we want hospitals is for such aims as the preservation of life or the improvement of health or peace of mind .
28 COACH travellers are to be the subject of a study to find out what causes motion sickness among passengers in road vehicles .
29 The user can supply start and end module names to indicate which referenced modules are to be included in the report .
30 The main increase in nationally mixed marriages was in fact among the western or Slavic nationalities of the USSR , and to some extent also between Slavs and Balts ; intermarriage between the other major nationalities of the USSR , and in particular between Slavs and Muslims , was much less common and provided much less convincing evidence of the formation of a single ‘ Soviet nation ’ .
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