Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 2 | Lord James told the committee an extension of hours had been under consideration since the 1970s . |
| 3 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 4 | Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system . |
| 5 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 6 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 7 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 8 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 9 | Both sets of parents had been against the marriage , but she and Gordon had persisted , drawn closer by the opposition . |
| 10 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 11 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 12 | ‘ A team of counsellors has been on duty over the weekend between 8am and 8pm and the helpline will remain live between these hours daily until 5pm on Friday , February 26 . |
| 13 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 14 | In recent years , virtually all domestic issues of bonds have been by means of a placing . |
| 15 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 16 | It had n't What kind of things had been in the past ? |
| 17 | For example , a major preoccupation of sociologists has been with the cohesive effect of directive institutions through which power is exercised — the law , political systems , etc . |
| 18 | The majority of suggestions have been on the lines that there should be a one- or two-year period in which it should be possible for the capital of discretionary trusts to be distributed tax free provided the settlement was made before 26th March 1974 and the result of the distribution was that there would be either absolute entitlement to the property or an interest in possessing it . |
| 19 | It has been shown that most suicide attempters are aware of the existence of agencies where they could obtain help , such as the general practitioner , social workers , or the Samaritans ( Kreitman and Chowdhury 1973b ) ; in fact , a significant proportion of attempters had been in touch with one or more of these agencies in the weeks preceding the attempt ( Bancroft et al. 1977 ) . |
| 20 | The balance of payments has been in surplus every year but two , external debt is less than 1% of official foreign reserves , and inflation has averaged only 2.2% in the past five years . |
| 21 | The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records . |
| 22 | The average age of central committee members fell from 52 to 47 ; an increased proportion of members had been in the party for less than 15 years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In 1980 , under 10 per cent of drinks bought were in plastic bottles , while in 1987 this figure has risen to nearly 40 per cent . |
| 25 | And the bed looks like a troop of soldiers has been over it . ’ |
| 26 | Just over 70 per cent of students had been in receipt of an SERC award whilst on their Advanced Course . |
| 27 | As noted in Chapter 3 , 71 per cent of students had been in receipt of SERC finance for their Advanced Course ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 28 | A number of documents had been in the drawers but not a list of computer codes . |
| 29 | However , the volume of shares traded was in excess of one billion ; the Chancellor 's announcement being the panacea the city was looking for . |
| 30 | Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity . |