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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems . |
| 5 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The emphasis in econometric research until recently has been on developing estimators with desirable large sample properties for correctly specified models . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Max has been to numerous rehearsals with his celebrity owner and once appeared on breakfast TV . |
| 12 | Ask anyone who has been to previous festivals and they will tell you not to miss it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 16 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 17 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 18 | My experience over this past year has been of closed doors . |
| 19 | The standard model of local government since the war has been of multi-functional authorities with an elected council supervising the direct provision of services . |
| 20 | Our talk has been of non-commuting observables or the Fourier analysis of wavepackets . |
| 21 | The most dramatic improvement has been among arctic terns , which are breeding on the islands for the first time in seven years . |
| 22 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 23 | They say that until now paclitaxel for human drug use has been from felled trees , but in 1993 sources other than Pacific yew bark will be used on a commercial scale , and by 1995 they hope actual trees will no longer be needed to produce the drug . |
| 24 | As noted earlier , most of the newly created jobs in the service sector are occupied by women on a part-time basis , whereas most of the labour expelled from manufacturing has been in full-time jobs occupied by men . |
| 25 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 26 | Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars . |
| 27 | There has been in recent years a steady increase in the number of courses in ‘ bilingual training for business people ’ . |
| 28 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 29 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 30 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |