Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another . |
| 2 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Software Products division is on the move : it is decamping its headquarters from Somers , New York to Austin , Texas by the end of next quarter . |
| 3 | And another senior colleague Steve Mcleod on my right , whose primary responsibility is with the value for money work that we undertake on your behalf . |
| 4 | Improvements to Ark printing are in the offing , Mr Round believes , as are facilities for transferring data into Ark , which will allow data to be loaded automatically from the firm 's AS/400 database without rekeying . |
| 5 | Serum creatinine , amylase , serum asparate transaminase , and serum alanine transaminase were within the normal range . |
| 6 | If the trough cyclosporin level was in the therapeutic range ( 80–120 ng/ml ) and the rise in serum creatinine did not correct after reducing the dose , then treatment was discontinued until the serum creatinine returned to pretreatment values . |
| 7 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
| 8 | Unless your cholesterol level is off the scale ( by which I mean approaching double figures when measured in millimoles per litre ) , the degree of change in absolute coronary risk that you can bring about by dietary measures is spitting in the wind . |
| 9 | Movements of base level are of the utmost importance in understanding landforms in most parts of the world , for the earth 's surface is in an unstable period of its history . |
| 10 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 11 | Levi , whose support base was within the large Sephardi community , had suffered a humiliating defeat in internal Likud elections held in early March , and accused the Prime Minister and Likud leader , Itzhak Shamir , of promoting ethnic discrimination against his community . |
| 12 | AN ELECTRICAL retailer , a garden centre and a milk processor were among the winners of this year 's Scottish Marketing Awards . |
| 13 | The Cherry and Whites first division future is on the line tomorrow … having lost four of their opening five matches defeat against the saracens could prove fatal … |
| 14 | His first major field research was among the Nupe people of Northern Nigeria , and on his second field research period there , 1935-36 , he wrote up a work journal which has never been published . |
| 15 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 16 | SUDBURY Rugby Club are at the forefront of a campaign to give minnows of the new national league set-up a bigger slice of the game 's sponsorship cake . |
| 17 | Bicester Rugby Club were in the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup following an excellent hard four weeks , to go to Gloucester opponents , Hucklecote Old Boys at this afternoon . |
| 18 | The latter depends in turn on the capital intensity of fixed costs relative to variable costs ( ) and relative to the rest of the economy as a whole ( ) If fixed costs are relatively capital-intensive in both senses , then the first-round effect is for the size of the firm to be increased ( see dashed lines in Fig. 7–3 ) and this reinforces the substitution effect . |
| 19 | Irrespective of the fact that many , perhaps most of these jobs are low paid , dirty ( even the gleaming electronics industry is on the defensive against charges of health and safety problems for its workforce ) and monotonous , they are very widely sought after and they carry high prestige . |
| 20 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 21 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 22 | In this respect , the opinions of the parliamentary leadership were not dissimilar to those of the majority of Labour supporters , but this congruence does not invalidate the claim that Labour 's substantive and definite electoral support bloc was on the decline , and was being replaced , at least at the margin , by a more conditional and circumspect form of popular support . |
| 23 | His cheque card was on the table . |
| 24 | As a result , the agriculture industry is in the ironic situation of being in the vanguard of scientific and technological progress and subject to rapid and innovatory change , yet with a reputation for being backward and conservative and the very antithesis of modernity when it comes to its labour relations . |
| 25 | The first book printed in Florence , a 1471–72 Virgil , the earliest printed Greek Homer and first editions of Ficino and the Divina commedia are among the items on show . |
| 26 | Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war . |
| 27 | The Legal Aid Board is of the view that the disadvantages of such a scheme , that is the restriction on the applicants ' choice of solicitor to have the main conduct of the case and a weakening of the direct link between the legally aided plaintiff and the solicitor , are far outweighed by the advantages . |
| 28 | The Waitrose champagne is of the ‘ 83 vintage ; it has a glorious style of its own , light yet biscuity , classy with the muted perfume of hollyhocks and it makes a superb apertif . |
| 29 | ( Revision of the Republic 's constitution , dropping the territorial claim , is as vital to this island as today 's historic recognition settlement is to the world at large . ) |
| 30 | For the investor who decides to buy direct rather than invest via a gilt unit trust , which may have a front end charge of 6 p.c. plus an annual management fee , the cheapest buying route is via the Post Office . |