Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 2 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 3 | The aims of the course are essentially practical and the skills to be developed are concerned with language use in the context of life skills . |
| 4 | Other useful transforms are those of differential and integral functions . |
| 5 | ‘ Home knits are best for Baby and such fun to do . ’ |
| 6 | Details of events listed are correct at time of going to press , but please check all information before booking your Warm Hearted Weekend . |
| 7 | The ETB has been critical of hotel telephone call charges for many years . |
| 8 | In Blackpool the strongest feeling among representatives has been one of relief that the party sang in harmony under stress . |
| 9 | The period since then , however , has been one of consolidation and , in some instances , retrenchment within further education , but the principal management qualification continues to be the Diploma in Management Studies ( DMS ) , despite some changes . |
| 10 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |
| 11 | On Europe the pattern has been one of resistance to proposals but , in the end , accepting compromise . |
| 12 | The year has been one of change , of achievement , and of challenge . |
| 13 | The problem has been one of acceptability , and that may be a reflection of the practical rather than the academic nature of police surgeons ' work . |
| 14 | Within Greater York the general philosophy embodied in both the Greater York study and the structure plan has been one of restraint . |
| 15 | The history of Burma has been one of imperialism . |
| 16 | What can we expect from a Government who are dismantling quality training in the construction industry and whose record on training boards over the past decade has been one of failure ? |
| 17 | By contrast , the issue of social mobility has been almost entirely ignored by contemporary spatial analysis , even if the issue of social mobility has been one of sociology 's concerns . |
| 18 | The drama of Mansell 's foot injury has been one of racing 's best-kept secrets . |
| 19 | Instead , the experience of nationalization under a government committed to free-marketism and opposed to subsidies , has been one of restructuring and run-down . |
| 20 | ( c ) First registration of title Generally , an application for first registration of title , even when the land is in a compulsory area , will not be required unless the conveyance has been one of sale of the whole of the property ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s123 ) . |
| 21 | Yet , in the context of 19 barren years , the season just ended has been one of note in these parts . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it has been good for morale to have an ongoing project , the success of which has not been tied to the everyday ups and downs in the hurly-burly of school life . |
| 23 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |
| 24 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 25 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 26 | when a partner has been guilty of misconduct likely to be harmful to the firm 's business ; |
| 27 | Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences . |
| 28 | Part of the blame for that has to be accepted by the industry , which has been guilty of complacency . |
| 29 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 30 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |