Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clear danger was , however , that certain factions within the party leadership would not be so tolerant as Su Xiao Kang hoped and that the freer intellectual atmosphere of 1988 might be drawing to an end . |
| 2 | There were some signs in 1990-91 that Japan 's long-running dispute with the Soviet Union might be drawing to an end . |
| 3 | Moreover , there is a danger than data that presented very little pattern originally can be smoothed into an artefactually interesting story ; exercise 9.4 has been designed to enable you to explore this point . |
| 4 | Gender relations will be highlighted as an area in which external images of the Laz may conceal a much more complex reality . |
| 5 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 6 | Variation was entirely random , and each population evolved in response to purely local environmental pressures , which could be altered in an unpredictable way by migration or geological changes . |
| 7 | The trouble with nuclear power is that its ‘ costs ’ always have the potential to go well beyond the point where they can be factored into an environmental bill . |
| 8 | In fact , our research shows that sensitivity needs to emerge from the shadows and be recognized as an important problem in research . |
| 9 | One recurring kind of reason against accepting the authority of one person or institution is that there is another person or institution with a better claim to be recognized as an authority . |
| 10 | Coaching is also beginning to be recognized as an essential tool which has to be developed systematically , not left to chance or the interest of a few concerned managers . |
| 11 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 12 | So the same instruction would , on one model , be executed directly by hard-ware and , on another , be recognized as an extracode and interpreted by a subroutine in the supervisor . |
| 13 | It is good that the demanding job of running hostels for the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped , together with other provision of residential care , should now be recognized as an important aspect of social work , for much needs to be done in this field and many able people need to be recruited for the work . |
| 14 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 15 | For example , the effects of transactions or events can be recognized on an accrual basis ( that is , when the transactions or events take place ) , or on a cash basis ( that is , when cash is received or paid ) . |
| 16 | As of now , IBM Corp is offering an anti-virus service to its UK customers : this comprises updates to anti-virus programs four times a year — these provide users with ‘ install-and-forget ’ automatic protection on MS-DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Corp 's Windows operating systems , and can detect viruses in the memory , on floppy and hard disks ; if viruses are found in the memory , they are disabled , but if found on disks the user is given a recommended course of action on-line ; other services consist of detection tools for any new viruses ; access to an anti-virus bulletin board , from which the latest products and documentation can be downloaded ; phone support desk ; and customer alert service to forewarn of known or threatened virus outbreaks ; prices will be amended on an annual basis , but for one to 250 machines , the service is £1,000 , on 3,001 to 5,000 workstations it is £12,000 . |
| 17 | As we have seen , this gain is a loss to the welfare of consumers in the country to which they are exporting , and the cartel would , therefore , presumably be disallowed by an international competition authority . |
| 18 | Curiosity will be aroused by an exhibition which unites artists who would never have agreed to show together at the time when this sculpture was being made . |
| 19 | You will find that the initial letters of the routine operations to be undertaken during an examination form the word |
| 20 | This inspection should then be repeated every ten years so that remedial treatment can be undertaken at an early stage if rotting is detected . |
| 21 | No fast should be undertaken against an opponent ; it should be undertaken rather for the good of those near and dear to the person who fasts . |
| 22 | Having decided that an environmental impact study was necessary , it wanted the study to be undertaken by an independent group which would be more sympathetic to community concerns and interests , rather than have such a study conducted by a government agency such as An Foras Forbartha . |
| 23 | If there are reasons to indicate that the child has visual defects , more detailed and sophisticated tests will be undertaken by an ophthalmologist to whom the child will be referred . |
| 24 | Dating a rug from its weave and design requires extensive specialist knowledge and can only be undertaken by an expert . |
| 25 | More radical proposals include suggestions to allow all military procurement to be undertaken by an independent civilian agency and not by the military ; all future defence and foreign policy posture statements to be decided by Congress and not the military ; and regular Congressional debate on military priorities and their socio-economic consequences . |
| 26 | Fourthly are the fragments of evidence that allow relative and absolute dating to be undertaken by an increasingly varied range of techniques . |
| 27 | This work will be undertaken by an interdisciplinary team from both Leicester and Loughborough Universities in collaboration with research staff at the British Geological Survey and neighbouring local authorities . |
| 28 | A man might be sacked at an hour 's notice , perhaps after giving years of service , yet received no compensation , no redundancy payment . |
| 29 | The decision is controversial in its reasoning , but it may be explained as an attempt by the judiciary to improve the workability of an ageing legal structure . |
| 30 | The decision might be explained as an attempt to remedy the absence of an offence which penalizes such voyeurs . |