Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over two-thirds of respondents were against a prohibition of the kind proposed in the paper , and a clear majority of local law societies were unsympathetic . |
| 2 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 3 | Just under two and a half acres of land untouched for centuries is at stake . |
| 4 | Again , people in closed institutions such as prisons are at risk because they are more likely to have to share ‘ works ’ . |
| 5 | If speed reducing measures such as humps were to be applied to other residential roads , then all manner of surface treatments for safety and environmental improvement — including shared spaces where appropriate — become feasible . |
| 6 | HUNDREDS of jobs are to be lost at a North West chemical firm . |
| 7 | The worst of fates was to be a wallflower passed over and rejected . |
| 8 | In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces . |
| 9 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 10 | Individuals ' social security insurance contributions were to be increased , while those of employers were to be reduced by 7 per cent . |
| 11 | Many also have powerful glands on the head , those of cats being on their cheeks , those of elephants in front of their ears , and the horse even has one in its nose . |
| 12 | But if one sixth of patients are in hospital as a result of what we 've done wrong , five sixths are there because we have n't managed to stop them being there . |
| 13 | Billions of dollars are at our disposal . |
| 14 | Almost all of the designated districts had declared at least one improvement area , and about one-quarter of declarations were in commercial or commercial/ industrial areas . |
| 15 | It 's the thin covering of snow over sheet ice that 's the real killer , and slithering about on that without crampons is like driving at 100 mph on the wrong side of the M8 with your eyes closed . |
| 16 | Millions of pounds are at stake and one side is certain to receive a bloody nose . |
| 17 | HUNDREDS of millions of pounds are at risk . |
| 18 | Its heroes are household names and millions of pounds are at stake when it is staged . |
| 19 | Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk . |
| 20 | A bribe of many millions of dollars was to be paid for a hostage , Peter Kilburn , by giving the captors a suitcase full of chemically treated bills ; after a few days , the bills would moulder away . |
| 21 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 22 | Not all of these charges may be taken as evidence of ‘ litigiousness ’ , for one-quarter to one-third of prosecutions were for regulatory offences , such as gambling and tax evasion , which were normally prosecuted by the police or other government agencies . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this play was overshadowed by the opening production and Crawford was the only leading actor not to merit a mention from Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , who believed that the key to performing this wittiest of farces was in the technique . |
| 24 | The need to feel wanted by or necessary to others is in all of us but this need can be magnified to immense proportions in those who suffer from the family disease . |
| 25 | The most sought after positions were at the front , where the gentry families had their seats . |
| 26 | Each has been the victim of the recession , the debenture memberships of several thousands of pounds being beyond the pocket of most golfers . |
| 27 | Thousands of beehives are at risk after a deadly parasite was found in more colonies , experts warned yesterday . |
| 28 | Thousands of birds are under threat because of a delay in designating a proposed site in the Peak District as an Environmentally Sensitive Area ( ESA ) . |
| 29 | This is considerably less than the numbers found in the animal equivalent , sarcoptic mange , where literally thousands of mites are to be found . |
| 30 | THOUSANDS of leaflets are to be distributed among employees across the Group to raise the profile of the Heartwatch scheme . |