Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Science Vote for 1992–93 has been divided as follows ( £m ) : |
| 2 | this is the book he was talking about that 's been brought back if anyone wants it . |
| 3 | Often the only way for that to happen was for those already in the cities to move out and for those contemplating a move in not to come . |
| 4 | But when she looked again , she realized that they were too far away from each other for that to have been possible . |
| 5 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 6 | Technology for that has been licensed to Canada , China and Australia . |
| 7 | But , by the time he returned to England in April 1186 , Richard 's position as heir-apparent had been further strengthened . |
| 8 | Planned capital expenditure for 1993 has been set at $5 billion . |
| 9 | Classification techniques such as this have been used to produce thematic maps of land-cover types , of rock types in semi-arid and arid regions and of the extent of urban areas . |
| 10 | Inventories such as this have been used in bulk by agricultural historians to show how varied were the regional farming practices of England long before the Agricultural Revolution . |
| 11 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |
| 12 | Software for Free has been written especially to help you make that decision without having to plough through mountains of Shareware and Public Domain Software first . |
| 13 | The latest update to the Protocol demands that the production of CFCs for dispersive used be phased out completely by the year 1996 . |
| 14 | The position of the beads in the grave normally suggests they were worn on a necklace , but a case can be made for some having been worn in the hair . |
| 15 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 16 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 17 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 18 | The idea for this had been offered at a full NEC meeting by Mr Wallace of the Irish Division . |
| 19 | The reasons for this have been discussed elsewhere . |
| 20 | The reasons for this have been widely discussed yet remain relatively obscure . |
| 21 | The main reasons for this have been ( a ) the opening-up of markets to international dealing , given the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 , ( b ) the deregulation of banking and money market dealing and ( c ) the volatility of interest rates and exchange rates , and thus the desire of banks to keep funds in a form that can be readily switched from one form of deposit to another , or from one currency to another . |
| 22 | Although the amounts could cause the deaths of up to 500,000 people , the conditions for this to occur were not present . |
| 23 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |
| 24 | One justification for this has been given : research is public , whereas higher education is private . |
| 25 | One suggestion is that badgers take advantage of the different temperatures and humidities at different times of the year , and support for this has been provided by Dr Roper 's latest badger research , a radio-tracking study with colleague Sean Christian . |
| 26 | The policy justification for this has been questioned . |
| 27 | The need for this has been argued strongly by economists critical of mainstream public finance , notably in the work of Buchanan . |
| 28 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 29 | A major reason for this has been the move by customers away from cash transactions to cheque and credit card transactions . |
| 30 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |