Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This heavy construction , which has good sound-insulating properties , provided an economic solution to the problem posed by the need to insert new floors in spite of the fact that all the beams had to be manhandled into position because there was no access for mechanical handling . |
| 2 | I would like to have more information from the County , or anyone else from the table for that matter , how this figure 's going to be split , clearly P P G requires it to be split between district , and I 'd like to see it split on that basis . |
| 3 | Maybe you could the only way we could do it is er a joint account and that would be have to be based on trust you know , a mutual trust between er y your two main people er y you would just have to trust them erm nobody , how do members feel about if you |
| 4 | Some engineers prefer claims under the ICE Conditions of Contract to be based on Clause 14 programme and tender assumptions , providing that the tender assumptions are judged to be reasonable . |
| 5 | Careful selection of critical areas for sectioning saves time and expense , and allows subsequent petrographic study to be based on knowledge of the section 's context . |
| 6 | He admits that it may be possible to use reason to a limited extent , but he insists that ultimately the existence of God defies all proof and has to be based on faith which transcends reason .. |
| 7 | the nature of the caring relationship is likely to be based on love and mutual support over a long period of time . |
| 8 | Exclusiveness used to be based on separation ( villages , tribes , clans ) . |
| 9 | Segmentation based on usage contexts is held to be particularly efficient because it permits product and marketing planning to be based on customer perceptions of what is required of , or desirable in that product . |
| 10 | This tale of parallel realities claims to be based on quantum theory , and is dressed up with suitable jargon . |
| 11 | In particular , reward structures are unlikely to be correlated with long-term returns ; in fact managerial compensation is likely to be based on performance over a two- or three-year period . |
| 12 | Since the two main reservoirs of infection are larvae in the prey or eggs on the ground , control has to be based on treatment of worm infection in the host animals , and on adequate hygiene to limit the possibility of acquisition of infection by ingestion of eggs . |
| 13 | This advice seems to be based on experience and the real understanding shown when such phrases as ‘ the usual juvenile restlessness ’ are used . |
| 14 | Why is this so if the curriculum is to be based on research ? |
| 15 | At this juncture , it is important to note that whilst there are interesting positions on offer in all fields at all levels , terms and conditions for non-executive jobs tend to be based on market rates relative to the country of origin for those nationalities usually recruited to perform the tasks in question . |
| 16 | Parton ( 1979 , 1981 ) and Packman ( 1981 ) both highlight an apparently increasing tendency for intervention in family life to be based on compulsion rather than informal permission , and attribute this either to defensive practice in the context of possible exposure ( Packman ) , or to the fact that social work practice is merely reflecting a change in the moral climate of society towards greater social control of deviance ( Parton ) . |
| 17 | Its ‘ norms ’ now tend to be based on methodology . |
| 18 | He had insisted , so the story went , that he knew — and his knowledge was said to be based on information handed down from Choco ancestors long dead but unforgotten — what no one else in Panama knew ( or apparently wanted to ) , and no one in the world of historical scholarship knew either . |
| 19 | Inequality in one of these areas may be the root cause of inequality in the other spheres — caste society , as we shall see , appears to be based on status differences . |
| 20 | Regional target allocations were to be based on population , weighted by age , sex and SMR ( as a proxy for morbidity ) , with compensation for treating patients from other regions by a ‘ cross-boundary flow ’ adjustment based on average cost per case by specialty applied to patient flows recorded two or three years earlier . |
| 21 | In fact its main function seems to be based on intemperance . |
| 22 | For the first year after transfer full excess fares less any increase in office allowance will be paid by the company , costs to be based on season ticket rates where appropriate . |
| 23 | It is in this sense that a system of majority decision-taking , rather than any particular decision , can be said to be based on consent . |
| 24 | Team manager Michael Cane and commercial executive Colin Cordy have become partners in a Formula 3000 team to be based in South Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | Department stores tend to be based in city centres and are losing trade to out-of-town sites . |
| 26 | There was a lot to be said for flirtation and mutual admiration . |
| 27 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 28 | First of all , there is much to be said for simplicity which , in Canada and New South Wales , has been achieved in part by including within the scale a far narrower range of former offences than is the case in Michigan . |
| 29 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |
| 30 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |