Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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1 | The four most common reasons for resistance to change are : |
2 | The nature of the evidence about coin finds is of varying quality . |
3 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
4 | But also , and more importantly , the normal upward movement that was for long the solvent for discontent has been arrested . |
5 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
6 | The political groundwork for change had been laid by the " realistic rents " policy applied to the public sector by the Housing Subsidies Act 1956 . |
7 | Also rejecting the contention that no case for change had been made , he declared : ‘ Party politics is not on the agenda of reform . |
8 | ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’ |
9 | In any starting position , when the basis for change has been created the decision as to which stage should be contemplated is the key one . |
10 | When the request has been processed , the Change Coordinator will notify the New OED Project Director whether the request for change has been accepted or rejected , and he in turn will inform the user . |
11 | The Change Coordinator will tell the Development Manager whether the request for change has been accepted or rejected . |
12 | Even though the need for change has been clearly stated and the encouragement to change comes from the highest political levels , the systems through which health care are delivered are traditional and conservative and may not support an individual through changing policies and roles . |
13 | These efforts for change have been constantly undermined by economic crisis and war . |
14 | Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management . |
15 | Certainly the primary reason why ideas about chaos have been seen as important for fluid dynamics is their potential relevance to turbulence . |
16 | In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% . |
17 | The idea that dreaming is essential for sanity has been prevalent in popular science since the eighteenth century . |
18 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
19 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |
20 | GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor , which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels , where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations . |
21 | The Committee agreed to consider a larger amount when all the applications for funding had been presented . |
22 | Gates or pens for pedestrian access and ‘ slot and bar ’ for cyclist have been installed to limit access to the intended users and keep out motor cyclists , cars and other unauthorised motor vehicles . |
23 | It would certainly be improper for the governors to go into the medical or educational case history on which the call for provision had been based . |
24 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
25 | A writ for negligence has been issued against Cape Limited of Uxbridge . |
26 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
27 | The Bill in the course of its transit through Parliament had been radically altered so that the eventual enactment bore little resemblance to the Bill which was originally drafted . |
28 | In the political sphere also it is possible to detect a parallel crisis developing in respect of orthodox democratic theory based on the conventional model of representative democracy , For one thing the traditional mechanisms of political control and accountability exercised through parliament have been rendered increasingly ineffective by the ascending power of the executive . |
29 | Obviously the spelling of words such as color has been corrected , both on-screen and in the manual , but other changes such as default paper sizes and hyphenation dictionaries have also been modified . |
30 | The example given was of a tenant against whom an order for eviction had been made securing further time in residence by appealing . |