Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Noise level was about average for an electric machine , certainly quieter than petrol-driven models . |
2 | Letters not specifically addressed to individuals or departments should also pass through this unit , and could be logged , if response monitoring were to be extended from the current obligation we have to log ‘ environmental ’ enquiries ( which we should also talk about ) . |
3 | And another senior colleague Steve Mcleod on my right , whose primary responsibility is with the value for money work that we undertake on your behalf . |
4 | Anything Royal Portrush choose to do is done well , and McGimpsey would be first to say that the famous Dunluce course is in superb shape . |
5 | *the influencer — individuals whose influence over the purchase decision is in some way significant or authoritative . |
6 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |
7 | That is why it is so important for us to be exactly clear what we mean by support teaching , and which ‘ model ’ of support teaching is under investigation , before we can select our criteria for evaluation appropriately ( see Table 8.3 ) . |
8 | To return to the central question about how the boundaries of special educational provision and therefore of support teaching are to be defined , I shall argue in the remainder of this chapter that although the ‘ individual ’ approach represents what has always traditionally been accepted to be our role , to continue to define our responsibilities in these purely individual terms could have serious consequences , not only for the future of support teaching when we come to evaluate it , but for the development of comprehensive education as a whole . |
9 | The budget deficit was to be cut to 60,000 million roubles by reducing central state expenditure on investment ( notably in heavy industry ) , the military and administration . |
10 | The budget deficit was to be restricted to 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , compared with 3 per cent in 1989 . |
11 | The Russian budget deficit was in danger of being inflated by measures forced on the government in order to maintain levels of social protection , and by lower tax revenues caused by non-payment . |
12 | Looking at the table we can see how low the calcium level is in cereals . |
13 | Once , however , the National Curriculum entitlement is in place it does not seem likely that parents will welcome any ‘ experiment ’ . |
14 | Serum creatinine , amylase , serum asparate transaminase , and serum alanine transaminase were within the normal range . |
15 | In the previous recession electronics were to some extent protected from the slump by companies ' enthusiasm for replacing old technologies with new . |
16 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |
17 | Texas Instruments Inc has won what it wants from Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd , and the South Korean company will pay royalties to use Texas Instruments semiconductor and personal computer system patents under a cross-licensing agreement between the two companies : Texas said the portion of the agreement covering the semiconductor patent is for 10 years , and the personal computer part is for five . |
18 | The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs . |
19 | Given that there is no downside , groups should ensure that a valid group income election is in place for all members . |
20 | If a group income election is in place , as will often be the case , the dividend ( or part of it ) can be paid up outside the group income election in order to generate the required ACT . |
21 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
22 | If the trough cyclosporin level was in the therapeutic range ( 80–120 ng/ml ) and the rise in serum creatinine did not correct after reducing the dose , then treatment was discontinued until the serum creatinine returned to pretreatment values . |
23 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
24 | To find out that she was a drug user was like finding out your twin was a murderer . |
25 | Unless your cholesterol level is off the scale ( by which I mean approaching double figures when measured in millimoles per litre ) , the degree of change in absolute coronary risk that you can bring about by dietary measures is spitting in the wind . |
26 | As Tom Sanders , reader in nutrition at King 's College , London , and nutritional director of the Family Heart Association , puts it : ‘ If your blood cholesterol level is above 6.5-7.5 , you have a three times higher risk of heart disease . |
27 | If your blood cholesterol level is above 6.5-7.5 , you have a three times higher risk of heart disease . |
28 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |
29 | If income support is in payment , there is unlikely to be any advantage for the local authority in pursuing maintenance as the DSS will simply reduce their contribution by the same amount . |
30 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |