Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 2 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 3 | The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis . |
| 4 | Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA . |
| 5 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 6 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 7 | This action plan makes it evident that many of the organisational improvements recommended are in fact features synonymous with an ‘ openly run ’ school with an ‘ open ’ form of decision-making . |
| 8 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 9 | ( 3.1 ) unc The order in which the expression/variable pairs appear is of no consequence . |
| 10 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 11 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 12 | Most of my contact with other musicians has been with other improvising musicians , and to get to work with one of the major American composers on something like that was fascinating . |
| 13 | The most long-standing method of training church musicians has been through apprenticeship . |
| 14 | Because the calories consumed are in the form of particularly bulky , filling and satisfying food your appetite will not be sharpened nor your willpower lowered by actual physical hunger . |
| 15 | A program of research into leadership styles has been in operation at Ohio State University since 1945 . |
| 16 | However , by and large , the audience split between the commercial and non-commercial sectors has been in the 40:60 ratio ( or vice versa ) and , therefore , within acceptable limits . |
| 17 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 18 | The emphasis in schools has been on computer science and CAL . |
| 19 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 20 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 21 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 22 | Thus the practical stress of Marxist movements and parties has been on individuals sublimating their own ethical beliefs and judgements to a collective , party-defined line . |
| 23 | In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment . |
| 24 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 25 | The Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show is at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham from April 18 to April 21 . |
| 26 | The Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show is at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham over the Easter Weekend , April 18 to April 21 . |
| 27 | The final series of the Hudson and Halls show is to be screened by the BBC later this year . |
| 28 | The oleic acid concentrations used are in the range encountered in patients with steatorrhea . |
| 29 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 30 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |