Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's one of those unfortunate things that when people talk about maintaining standards , the only sort of , in an sense , external sort of guidance they 've got to go for are things like examination passes . |
| 2 | In between are variations in phenomena such as El Nino . |
| 3 | In fact , some of the canvases of this type have almost the appearance of being paintings of sculptures and masks . |
| 4 | According to reports mosques in and around Asyut and Dairut in Upper Egypt were suspected of being centres of sedition . |
| 5 | Their chances of being chairmen of Ford or General Motors are pretty slim too ; non-existent ( on past experience ) if they are a British manager at an American ‘ transplant ’ in Britain . |
| 6 | For the felines themselves it is almost like a modern rebirth of the senseless persecution of the Medieval period , when they were accused of being servants of Satan . |
| 7 | We also talked about experiences of being victims of offences and found Blacks had significantly less , and had reported fewer of these to the police . |
| 8 | Er Brothers of were manufacturers of sheep dips and various disinfectants . |
| 9 | Volunteers handle hundreds of cases every year helping Darlington people to come to terms with being victims of crime . |
| 10 | Library co-operatives , apart from being producers/suppliers of courses , could also constitute a significant market for courses and be in a position to request economically viable , tailor-made ‘ external ’ courses . |
| 11 | Those in whom it has taken place are turned from being opponents of civilization into being its vehicles . |
| 12 | Far from being modifications to Freud , Talcott Parsons 's changes to the theory remove the whole purpose of sociologists turning to Freud in order to move away from the over-socialized conception of man . |
| 13 | As they were forced to respond to the pressure for constitutional change the established interests saw a glint of light at the end of the political tunnel and came to entertain the hope that if the middle classes were allowed a subordinate share of power then they just might turn from being poachers to gamekeepers of the system and so side with the aristocracy in helping to keep the working classes in order . |
| 14 | Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience . |
| 15 | Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length . |
| 16 | These substances are all known to be mediators of inflammation and are at least partly responsible for the macroscopically obvious inflammation of the intestine on days 6–9 . |
| 17 | During conventional culture there are likely to be fluctuations in temperature necessitated by frequent removal from the incubator for observation . |
| 18 | Union leaders protested that while wages had been frozen at a low level , a freeze on prices could not be maintained because of the lack of government inspectors — a fear endorsed by Collor 's television appeal of Feb. 3 asking the general public to be watchdogs against price rises . |
| 19 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 20 | The development of the inter-bank market enabled banks to lend for specified periods of time , repayment to coincide with what they expected to be periods of shortage . |
| 21 | ‘ In the world in which we live there are bound to be periods of turbulence on the foreign exchange markets from time to time . |
| 22 | The " days " are taken by some to be periods of time . |
| 23 | It goes without saying that the TD must hold regular surgeries , or in the euphemistic Irish expression " hear confessions " which will of course turn out to be requests for assistance . |
| 24 | One of the results of an active media relations service is likely to be requests for spokesmen for radio and television programmes , and special events and launches could lead to live coverage or even to a programme being made on the subject . |
| 25 | According to a survey carried out in RENFE in 1984 , for example , some 64 per cent of respondents claimed to be children of employees and 14 per cent to be grandchildren of railway workers ( Encinas 1986 : 53 ) . |
| 26 | It was the poverty researcher , B. S. Rowntree , who , around the turn of the twentieth century , pioneered the revolutionary idea of asking the subjects of research to be respondents to surveys . |
| 27 | They appeared to be notes on Vico , written on the backs of book-bills and letters . |
| 28 | If you see new words written and are not sure of the pronunciation because you have not heard the word or phrase used , check the pronunciation with friends — they do not have to be experts at phonetics to tell you what the word rhymes with — then bring it into your own conversation with confidence . |
| 29 | Employees of joint boards and joint committees will , if the White Paper is implemented , be allowed to be councillors in constituent authorities provided they are not nominated for board or committee membership , or are prohibited by their job . |
| 30 | Er I I think I take Mr 's point that er you would n't go to well a mile it 's really going to be horses for courses is n't it ? |