Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 2 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 3 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
| 4 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 5 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 6 | The the Weber parts for the Weber clarinet conc concertino are somewhere between the music library in Nottingham and the library here and should reach me a week tomorrow . |
| 7 | The general pattern of maternal mortality from these causes assumes the familiar " J " shape , reflecting that these data provide evidence that , in this context at least , optimal conditions for childbearing are somewhere in the age group 15–24 . |
| 8 | Even when excavations are featured in newspaper articles and television programmes , archaeological sites are rarely in the public eye for more than a very short while . |
| 9 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |
| 10 | Had the top layer of chalk found on the surface soil of the Falaises been mostly of the Micraster type , it is extremely improbable that there would ever have been champagne . |
| 11 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 12 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 13 | Left : Another good predator is the Arrow Crab Stenorhyncus seticornis , which is safe in reef aquaria so long as they do n't contain small shrimps , which along with juvenile crabs are greatly to the Arrow Crab 's taste . |
| 14 | It is generally agreed that he has mishandled the students , who have been threatened , bullied , fired on with tear-gas grenades ; and now the university is closed which means that these cynical and angry students are all over the country spreading disillusion . |
| 15 | As far as health and safety is concerned , Les Bell , Scottish region director and head of the UK professional and financial division of Sedgwick , said , ‘ directors have been personally in the firing line for some time ’ . |
| 16 | I 've never been in on a Friday afternoon because erm |
| 17 | The changes have been entirely on the asset side of the balance sheet . |
| 18 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 19 | IF you are down in the South West sector of the region over the next weekend the Swanage Railway is having a Steam Gala weekend . |
| 20 | HOWEVER , if you are down in the South East corner , the Kent and East Sussex Railway invites you to return to the ‘ Good Old Days ’ on Saturday and Sunday at Tenterden Station from 10am to 5pm . |
| 21 | Mr Chairman I , I mentioned that whilst welcoming the report , erm our motion is to say is , is of a more general nature , we 're looking at the , what is really has er greater standing for financial costs and other practical difficulties involved in increasing the proportion of waste erm who acts as that recycled in the County and apparent progress in meeting government recycling are not being too much and what needs a job and whilst we recognise that responsibility with this requires primarily with the District Council rather than County Council as their question of authority erm it 's an area that we have n't had much erm , the , there has n't been perhaps to the environment committee for some , some time now and I would like to s to actually look at this , look at this again because it is a fairly fast moving , ch changing area , so erm this really is then more of a general , general information and to look at it again . |
| 22 | There are a number of reasons why we need to make sure that we are in at the starting post in terms of links with Central and Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 24 | You are in on the ground floor of something very , very exciting ! ’ |
| 25 | The days of lavish entertainment are over for the Harcourt Family . |
| 26 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 27 | The details are outside on the duty rosta . |
| 28 | Contributors are largely from the Education Faculty at the university , and today I have with me Dr Johanna Turner , who is a Developmental Psychologist and the person who is particularly interested in development in young children . |
| 29 | I think that 's not uncommon actually if you , when you get people who 've , who 've been away from the education system for a f a few years and I think it 's almost like mature students do have more anxiety than people who come straight from school generally speaking I think erm |
| 30 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |