Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depreciation is to be based on the shorter of the lease term and useful economic life . |
| 2 | Depreciation is to be based on the shorter of the lease term and useful economic life . |
| 3 | Allowing for those to be transferred to the higher and further education funding councils , that is equivalent to a cut of almost 50 per cent . |
| 4 | The detective chief-inspector said he was aware a superintendent had authorised the defendant 's detention to be extended for a further 12 hours . |
| 5 | After a Cabinet meeting on Sept. 21 it was announced that the mandate under which the multinational rapid reaction force was stationed in south-east Turkey was to be extended for a further 90 days from Sept. 30 . |
| 6 | Perfect timing , then , for the EC 's dismal reputation to be cast in a better light by an impartial judge . |
| 7 | It was also apparent , however , that quadraphonic LPs had to be cut at a lower volume level than conventional records . |
| 8 | However , in a special supplement on the impact of the Gulf crisis , published in September 1990 , the IMF suggested that if the price of oil stabilized at $25 a barrel , the industrialized countries could expect growth to be cut by a further 0.25 per cent to 2.5 per cent for 1990 . |
| 9 | Repeated medians are usually sufficient for exploratory purposes but , if the results are to be presented to a wider audience , the more pleasing appearance that can be achieved by hanning may well repay the extra effort . |
| 10 | Cars : Car benefits enjoyed by company employees are to be taxed by a further 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Nor was there anything to be gained by a closer look but … all the same , as she was here … she might as well … before she knew what she was doing , Melissa ducked through the rails . |
| 12 | In addition , more specialist services such as those for mentally abnormal offenders , where there are usually only one or two expert practitioners in a large district , often have to be organized on a larger scale than is ideal for patients , simply because there is no other practical way of making the service available to everyone who needs it . |
| 13 | Given the driver supplied by Overdrive is ‘ under the entire and absolute control ’ of the haulier , adequate insurance cover needs to be arranged by the haulier to cover wrongful acts or omissions by a driver . |
| 14 | … they meant well — they felt kindly towards him , and acknowledged his provocations ; but they fell into the too common error of supposing that the finer feelings , which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour , are only to be recognised among the higher classes ; and that , because circumstances may have placed a man before the mast , he will undergo punishment , however severe , however degrading … in preference to death . |
| 15 | Junod , it will be recalled , proposed that the maternal uncle 's indulgent behaviour was to be explained by an earlier matrilineal ( or ‘ matri-archal ’ ) phase which had left its mark on the now formally patriarchal BaThonga . |
| 16 | Here , in the valley , the world seems to be constructed on a smaller and more delicate scale ; the fields are mere paddocks , so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark-green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass … such is the vale of Blackmoor . ’ |
| 17 | There is now an expectancy effect created that any new atrocity is likely to be connected to the earlier ones . |
| 18 | The plans , like those prepared in 1939 , included structural provision for two transepts , near the pulpit , to be built at a later stage , though it now seems unlikely that this will ever happen . |
| 19 | A further 8,781 housing units on which construction had actually begun , would , however , be completed , together with all 1,686 units due to be built in the greater Jerusalem area . |
| 20 | If less than 3 waiting days have been served in a PIW only the balance of waiting days will remain to be served in a later linked PIW . |
| 21 | This will enable the distribution to be completed over a shorter period . |
| 22 | The course is being offered initially to some 100 IBM staff and participants will have the opportunity to gain credit for their prior learning thus enabling the course to be completed in a shorter time . |
| 23 | They are to be replaced with a cheaper type of brick to be covered in a special layer and painted in a new light colour . |
| 24 | Almost all politicians thought Giuliano Amato 's scandal-battered four-party coalition had to be replaced by a broader-based one . |
| 25 | It has inevitably to be exercised within a wider framework that takes account of the general interests of the community , both local and national , in the education process . |
| 26 | These boundaries are also obtained from reference space excursions and can thus cause uncertainty in the spatial relationships which need to be checked at a lower local level . |
| 27 | The most successful animals may avoid dangerous fights in order not to be injured by a stronger , or excessively carefree , opponent . |
| 28 | In order to be authentic it has to be lived in the wider context of the real world in which religious women make their vows , informed both by the relationship they enjoy with the God who calls them and the real live people God gives them to love . |
| 29 | ( g ) Adjournment The court may adjourn proceedings at any stage and may fix a date , time and place for the resumed hearing or leave this to be determined at a later date . |
| 30 | The most widespread bee-eater of the region , and the only bird with harlequin plumage and central tail feathers slightly projecting likely to be seen over the greater part of it . |