Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 2 | However , while Accountancy Personnel estimated similar average pay increases of around two per cent , it is also noted student recruitment and partnership prospects for qualifieds were on the up and redundancies were falling in public practice , and some demand for specialist skills and pro-active commercial skills in commerce and industry . |
| 3 | The only parts of the experimental area where there are no facilities for cyclists are in those residential streets that are sufficiently lightly and slowly trafficked as to constitute no danger to cyclists sharing the roadway with cars . |
| 4 | I know what I said about possessions being like leeches , but that do n't mean I 'll surrender them to a pair of punks . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best bargains for barnstormers are to be found among converted barns . |
| 6 | Parametric data are expressed in terms of the mean and 95% confidence interval ( CI ) and comparison between groups was by the Student 's t test . |
| 7 | One difficulty for non-accountants is in deciding on which side of an account to enter a given sum . |
| 8 | One difficulty for non-accountants is in deciding on which side of an account to enter a given sum . |
| 9 | BRITAIN 'S safety arrangements for pesticides is in disarray following a ruling by the European Commission that the voluntary code , which is operated by the industry , is a breach of the EEC 's rules on free trade . |
| 10 | A new woodturning system specifically developed for schools is on test in Scottish schools . |
| 11 | Similarly , the state for Marxists is by no means neutral and independent , but is , in the words of Marx and Engels ‘ but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 223 ) . |
| 12 | The teach-in for secretaries was by Helen Hobbs ACIB , Bristol and Simon Robinson ACIB , Newcastle , both Honorary Secretaries . |
| 13 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 14 | The Scottish Office proposals to publish the information as part of a policy to tell parents more about schools are at best valueless and at worst dangerous , the committee says . |
| 15 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 16 | Monthly premiums for beneficiaries was to be gradually increased from $28.60 to $46.50 by 1995 . |
| 17 | Another important application area for computers is in real-time control . |
| 18 | Another key difference between styles is in heat control , inextricably tied in with the equipment used . |
| 19 | The most sought after positions were at the front , where the gentry families had their seats . |
| 20 | There is no road link with Laerdal , Kaupanger or Årdal and the only means of access for visitors is by hiring a small boat across the Lusterfjord from Solvorn . |
| 21 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 22 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 23 | HEARTH : Shelving for CDs is on each side |
| 24 | The sticking point for purists was over the balance to be struck between state power and voluntary efforts . |
| 25 | For Tobias is on the dresser : one meal a day on the kitchen window-ledge ( otherwise the hedgehog gets it ) . |
| 26 | For example , the International Committee of the Red Cross has an interest in monitoring the application of the Geneva Conventions and Protocols , and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is in a similar situation with respect to the Refugee Conventions . |
| 27 | Differences between accents are of two main sorts , phonetic and phonological . |
| 28 | Phonological differences between accents are of various types . |
| 29 | We have seen that the main differences between consonants are of three types : |
| 30 | The wider issue of the extent to which the judiciary may naturally favour certain types of values is outside the scope of this book . |