Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only parts of the experimental area where there are no facilities for cyclists are in those residential streets that are sufficiently lightly and slowly trafficked as to constitute no danger to cyclists sharing the roadway with cars . |
| 2 | HEARTH : Shelving for CDs is on each side |
| 3 | Since our sample was self-selected it is impossible to say what proportion of the total number of self-evaluation activities it represents , or whether the range of activities is in any way typical . |
| 4 | The mastery of skills is of little use if they can not be applied . |
| 5 | When you and I joined the force the majority of homicides were like that — family affairs , or at least concerned with intimate human relationships : legacies , jealousies , frustrated passions — always with a powerful personal element . |
| 6 | But will the flood of computers be of much use ? |
| 7 | For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts . |
| 8 | Finally , the effort required of readers is to some extent always dependent on the amount of energy they are prepared to expend in any given situation . |
| 9 | In other words , each group of problems is to some extent causative of the other groups . |
| 10 | Lots of audiences were like that . |
| 11 | Small scale studies indicate that households of this type are quite common , for example , for people of Pakistani origin living in Britain ( Anwar , 1985 ) and this is reflected in official statistics by evidence about the overall size of households : in 1985 , whilst less than one in ten white households contained more than four people , where people classified themselves as Pakistani , or Bangladeshi , just over 50 per cent of households were of that size ( Social Trends 1987 , p. 45 , table 2. 9 ) . |
| 12 | Many of the records of insects represent an extension of the known range of the particular species : three species of bees , five of aculeate wasps and 20 of hoverflies are among many new records for Leicestershire ; the cuckoo wasp , Vespula austriaca , is new to central England ; there is the most southerly record of a calliphorid fly , which is common in Scotland ; at least eight species of Ichneumonidae and five of Serphidae are new to Britain ; and two ichneumonids are probably new to science . |
| 13 | 59% of respondents were against this proposal , of whom 86% were sole practitioners . |
| 14 | The ecology of islands is in many ways special : few species ; no large mammalian predators ; large versions of creatures that are generally small , and small versions of creatures that are generally large . |
| 15 | As noted above , the simple division of hazards is between those which are natural and those which are technological or human-induced . |
| 16 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 17 | Rural Wales ( excluding the urbanized south and north-east ) provides a contrast with the Scottish Highlands , as here a large number of parishes were without any public transport at all . |
| 18 | ‘ A lot of men are like that , ’ observed Betty . |
| 19 | Staff in some departments discussed the appraisal but the writing of reports was in most cases undertaken solely by the head of department : |
| 20 | And the other thing of course was that one movement , which took about one second , right and you would n't have a loom , one movement of this machine where the needles go up , take the yarn , knitted a hundred stitches , two hundred stitches , what whatever number of stitches were on that particular piece of fabric , the width . |
| 21 | The Mount of Olives was in that allowed area . |
| 22 | Looking more closely at the authorities who directly budgeted money , 90% of counties were in this group , and 73% of Outer London authorities ( see Table 18 ) . |
| 23 | In 1985 , 55% of all people aged over 85 lived alone , but for men it was only 37% while 61% of women were in this position . |
| 24 | What is true of bivalves is without much doubt true of the majority of benthic invertebrates . |
| 25 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 26 | Knowledge memorized as a list of facts is of little practical use unless backed up by activities that put it to work . |
| 27 | Invented in 1589 , when Elizabeth I was on the throne of England , the ‘ stocking frame ’ came into use when the demand for stockings was from both sexes , and it signalled the birth of a great industry , although recognition of its revolutionary potential was slow in coming , and William Lee died penniless in Paris . |
| 28 | This type of community work with refugees is in many ways similar to the organization of the controlled zones and is regarded as the basis for a future development model after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
| 29 | The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue . |
| 30 | Questions about adequate levels of safety on the roads or in factories , or about purity in foods are of this kind . |