Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 The dual arm design allows each wafer to be centred automatically without delaying transfer .
2 This enables each division to be treated as a separate profit centre , facilitating ‘ the imposition of standardized financial goals on the various divisions , in place of ad hoc evaluations of the performance of noncomparable functional parts ’ .
3 It was unfortunate that during this period of time there were a number of pressures er on us , not just County Council for that money to be spent elsewhere and that money was er brought back to the centre and we distributed all of the the Services .
4 He said he expected a substantial part of that money to be used as a ‘ starter ’ sum for Darlington schools St Augustines and St Bedes .
5 It is sufficient for the quality of that settlement to be such as to inherently improve the setting of the city .
6 The program procedures then allow each component to be positioned within any other space according to nine controlling freedoms ( the six normal kinematic freedoms and three additional values of orthogonal scale ) .
7 There has been a great deal of argument as to what a new enquirer needs to know before or immediately upon making a decision to follow Christ for that decision to be meaningful .
8 they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves .
9 But for most Town Halls , by far the vast majority of that information is still translated into a paper format in order for a decision to be made and the action arising from that decision to be implemented .
10 This left it to Mr , to come up with sufficient information to enable that decision to be made .
11 The WGMS allows that judgement to be accurately recorded .
12 Sometimes the contract includes a clause such as ‘ each instalment to be considered as a separate contract . ’
13 Soil conservation programmes , by the nature of their objectives and the distribution of personal rewards ( which are usually meagre since there is little money to be made out of them ) are immune from many of the more trenchant criticisms of foreign aid policies and programmes .
14 With little money to be made in New Zealand , Fitzsimmons moved to New South Wales in Australia to further his fight career before emigrating to the United States .
15 After 1574 there was little money to be had from Antwerp in any case , and Elizabeth had to rely upon domestic resources , which were adequate only for private borrowing .
16 I had the impression that unless you were famous there was little money to be made from art .
17 I spent the years from 1983 to 1988 as a member of the National Council on the Arts , the NEA 's advisory board ; it was the Council 's task to vote on every grant , though in the end the law required the final decision in each case to be made by the Chairman .
18 Was the decision in that case to be limited to those situations where a ‘ special relationship ’ existed ?
19 However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) .
20 For to understand a sentence is to be able to pick out situations which justify us in believing that sentence to be true .
21 I was wandering between the stalls , searching , though with little hope to be honest , when a bright object caught my eye : hanging from a music stand , beside the piano , was a three-inch knitted choirboy in pink and purple with white knitted ruff .
22 It is a good rule for a government entering a battle of that kind to be united .
23 A saw cut in the end of each 1½ × ¾in ash runner has the effect of reducing the thickness of each piece to be bent , in effect allowing a laminated curve attached to a solid straight runner .
24 But if the being of an individual woman is sufficiently strong and well-developed , then , knowing that light to be there deep within her , she can allow it to permeate the whole of her presence , refining and changing her very substance rather as a lamp when it is lit makes an apparently opaque glass shade appear translucent .
25 Across the road in the centre of the village , are two stones from Points Hicks in Australia , the first place on that continent to be sighted on Cook 's first great voyage .
26 Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) .
27 ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time .
28 If we acknowledge the importance of respecting the child 's own ways of thinking , we need to find ways for that thinking to be expressed so that it can be reflected on , and to know how far doing this can also help learning .
29 Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard .
30 Accordingly , he suggested separate facilities at each exchange for dealing with juveniles ; notices with information about the exchanges were to be displayed in schools ; lists of prospective school-leavers to be sent to the local exchange with details of their ‘ ability , tastes and desires ’ ; and each school-leaver to be told to call at the exchange for an interview .
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