Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year
2 Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary .
3 Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types .
4 A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action .
5 The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased .
6 This may indicate that the conflict has been over peripheral matters , that a core belief in a transcendent power could retain its plausibility , untouched by changing conceptions of the physical world .
7 The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected .
8 Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems .
9 ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said .
10 The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’
11 The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months .
12 The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models .
13 ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . )
14 Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ?
15 Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction .
16 Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel .
17 So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness .
18 Most of their work to date has been with blue-chip companies , but they have also handled assignments from leading merchant banks and fashion retail houses .
19 It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount .
20 The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges .
21 Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group .
22 Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV .
23 Ask anyone who has been to previous festivals and they will tell you not to miss it .
24 Basically , the tradition has been for financial landowners to pursue the investment route by building shopping centres as a long-term project , e.g. the Coal Industry Pension fund in North Shields .
25 The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself .
26 The place anciently belonged to the Fauconbergs , but has been for many generations the seat of the Bethells .
27 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
28 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
29 Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response .
30 The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular .
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