Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst some time can be spent in ‘ tidying up ’ it is important that the high standards of housekeeping are maintained throughout the year and generally this is the case . |
| 2 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 3 | The position will worsen once the full effects of the poll tax and the revenue support grant are felt after the expiry of the four-year transitional period . |
| 4 | Applications for grant are assessed on the basis of : — |
| 5 | An executive President is elected every five years , as is a unicameral National Congress with 116 members , 87 of whom are directly elected ; the remainder are elected on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 6 | By extrapolating broad social trends such as the long-run shift in industrialised societies from employment in agriculture and manufacturing to employment in service industries he paints his picture of the future where all our material needs are catered for by 10 per cent of the labour force , and the remainder are employed in the service sector , many of them in education and subsidised by the government . |
| 7 | And because valuable information and expertise are dispersed throughout the organization , top management does not solve problems ; it creates an environment in which people can identify and solve problems themselves . |
| 8 | Measures and sacrifices which the bourgeois-liberal mind contemplates with horror are vindicated by the country 's transformed position in the world and the protection afforded future generations against similar tragedies : in the scheme of history , timely , resolute action has been the greatest kindness . |
| 9 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 10 | The operations in this case are defined under The Town and Country Planning General Development Order 1988 ( GDO ) and planning permission is assumed to have been granted . |
| 11 | As an example of fine craftsmanship , hand cut carpet borders on the dramatic grand stair case are shown in the illustration , closely following the curved walls . |
| 12 | Letters of admission are issued by the Committee . |
| 13 | but lines perpendicular to the direction are changed in the ratio which , for small is very nearly negligible . |
| 14 | Talks and meetings on topics of interest to nurses looking for a change in career direction are held throughout the day , and personnel and recruitment officers make themselves available to answer questions and arrange interviews for interested applicants . |
| 15 | As we shall see , many but not all liberal theories of political freedom are based on the endorsement of one or another of several principles of restraint , of which the principle of neutrality is one . |
| 16 | Billing machines and the tabular ledger are used in the preparation of accounts and the work must always be up to the minute , as it should be possible to produce a guest 's bill immediately on request . |
| 17 | In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future . |
| 18 | Distributional attitudes to inequality are contained in the parameter . |
| 19 | The discovery in 1958 that sodium uptake and glucose uptake are coupled at the luminal surface of the intestine marked a turning point in the oral administration of electrolyte solutions . |
| 20 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 21 | Connections to these boxes are usually made via a PP3 style clip-on connector and the wires to this clip are soldered to the circuit board , red is positive , black is negative . |
| 22 | Minor concentrations of copper , molybdenum , tin , tungsten and uranium are associated with a number of mineralised Caledonian calc-alkaline porphyritic granites in Scotland , Northern England and Wales . |
| 23 | Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software . |
| 24 | In addition historical information about the current status as well as the automatic processes applied to the text are contained in the history flag fields . |
| 25 | Each Gospel begins with a richly ornamented page in which the opening words of the text are submerged by the decoration . |
| 26 | The reason many copies of any one fragment of text are found on a disc is that if , like all my chapters , the text has been edited and re-edited many dozens of times , each edit will result in a new saving to the disc of ( almost ) the same text . |
| 27 | All attractions inside the Theme Park are included in the price of one ticket ( except ‘ Shooting Gallery ’ ) . |
| 28 | And in An Ideal Husband ( Globe Theatre ) their marriage and his livelihood are threatened by the appearance of the Cruella de Ville-like Mrs Cheveley who has blackmail and greed on her mind . |
| 29 | It is important to consider the institutional framework regulating relationships between employer and unions , since this will influence the way in which external political pressures for change are carried into the corporation . |
| 30 | Cash for pay-outs , petty cash and coin are provided to the customer 's branches by the carrier out of stocks held on behalf of the Bank . |