Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 90 per cent of development in the zones has been for industrial or warehouse use . |
| 2 | Ever since I took over the tips section in the hallowed pages of ZZAP ! 64 , folks have whinged that most of the pokes are for Reset and Action Replay carts . |
| 3 | Through its Export Division , Courtaulds Coatings ( New Zealand ) covers most of the Pacific islands of Polynesia , Melanesia and Micronesia , where a large proportion of its sales are for marine and yacht paints |
| 4 | Proctor & Gamble run 18 team-based plants which are between 30 and 40% more productive and more adaptable than conventional plants . |
| 5 | It is not known whether they are of volcanic or impact origin , or a mixture of the two , though the relative numbers of different sizes are similar to the impact craters in the more heavily cratered areas on Mars and the Moon . |
| 6 | CL makes it much easier to determine if sparry fabrics are of neomorphic or cement origin by displaying growth zones in crystal aggregates ( Dickson , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're with General & Cumbria Assurance , my husband told me . |
| 8 | ‘ Bob , these two gentlemen are from Fraternal & Equality , an insurance company . |
| 9 | ‘ They are from Fraternal & Equality , the insurance subsidiary of INCUBUS . ’ |
| 10 | Following a nuclear weapons test the residence time of the radionuclides released depends upon the height to which the radioactive cloud rises ( which is related to explosion yield ) , its latitude of detonation ( the height of the tropopause being lower in the polar regions than near the equator ) , the size of the radioactive aerosols , and whether the radionuclides are in gaseous or particle form . |
| 11 | Of those , some 60 per cent are in Muslim or Croat territories . |
| 12 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 13 | Nearly half the agency workers are working in the banking , finance and business services sector , although this might be a consequence of that sector being the one in which employment agencies/business are located , and another fifth are in " other services " , of which half are in medical and health services . |
| 14 | Oh goodness be about one and ninepence . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union 's grain harvest has been hit by drought and fuel problems , and there are predictions that the harvest could be between 195 and 200m tonnes , compared with last year 's 218m tonnes . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm from Merry & Co , ’ I said . |
| 17 | The company says that most of the losses will be in administrative and management positions , not among workers in the companies Paris theme park . |
| 18 | Steam haulage will be by ex-Somerset and Dorset 7F No. 53808 and diesel by Class 35 Hymek No. 7017 . |
| 19 | There are far fewer organic farmers concentrating on livestock then there are on arable and vegetable crops . |
| 20 | The scullers raced in single sculls and the racing here was also of a high standard , but there was not an outstanding single sculler and the places at stake were for quadruple and double sculls . |
| 21 | Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground . |
| 22 | Some theorists dispute the need for sleep , while others insist a regular amount of sleep ( the average being between 6 and hours per night ) is essential . |
| 23 | Eternity should be visualized as a blessed state of being without past or future . |
| 24 | Thus , in England and Wales in 1971 there were 311,000 students in advanced further education , of whom 204,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including 113,000 on initial teacher training , and 107,000 on part-time courses . |
| 25 | By 1981 , the numbers of students had grown considerably to 377,000 : of these 209,000 were on full-time and sandwich courses , including only 27,000 on initial teacher training , and 168,000 on part-time courses . |
| 26 | At that time we were at 11000 and E/A [ enemy aircraft ] at 17000 . |
| 27 | By far the most important division here is between central and fissure eruptions . |
| 28 | Water , in practice , provides the medium ; and water is liquid ( at the kind of pressures that prevail on Earth ) only if the temperature is between 0 and 100°C . |
| 29 | Most gas fields occur where the vitrinite reflectance at the Top Carboniferous is between 1 and 2% Rm , a few fields are located between 2 and 3% Rm and only one small field ( Uchte ) is located where the vitrinite reflectance is 4.5% Rm . |
| 30 | WORLDWIDE , the annual consumption of polythene is between 5 and 10lb per head . |