Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project was the first to be overseen by the new Clerk to the Governors , Mr. T. R. Ellis , an Old Stopfordian who had been appointed when the previous Clerk retired in 1942 . |
| 2 | And ministerial statements have actually indicated that it 's not likely to appear , as a final version , until next year at the earliest , and so it would seem to me that there 's a great deal of thought to be gone into the precise wording of that P P G yet , and to rely on quotes from it wou is , is , is at best er , misleading , and I think we ought to bear in mind something that Mr Curtis mentioned this morning , that in fact the change that happened between draft P P G three and the final version , it is quite possible that the final version of P P G thirteen could be substantially different from the |
| 3 | Duclos offered his hand , anxious to be gone from the unwholesome presence of the recruiter . |
| 4 | The NRA Southern Region is now looking for Technical Assistants and Trainee Scientists to be based at the new analytical laboratory at Waterlooville in Hampshire which will be the main centre for chemical , biological and microbiological analysis of effluent and surface water samples collected throughout the Region . |
| 5 | It seems to be based on the implicit assumption that women who reject dieting and respond to their bodies ' hunger can have no role to play in their own , or anybody else 's , fantasies . |
| 6 | This is not generally reflected in work on Japan published in English where the debate , if it is mentioned at all , seems to be based on the early works of Marx and a selective version of Weber . |
| 7 | The chapter appears to be based on the famous nursery rhyme about Tweedledum and Tweedledee for at the end the brothers fight over the rattle and also the crow appears . |
| 8 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |
| 9 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 10 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 11 | In broad terms , resource levels would continue to be based on the existing weighted factors . |
| 12 | This appeared to be based on the geographical location of their offices , although the structure of the firm may also have been a factor . |
| 13 | It 's the idea that you ca n't have socialism in one country , it has to be international it 's the idea that it has to be based on the working class because the working class is the agent of socialism and it has to be by revolution because the ruling class wo n't give up its power and wealth voluntarily . |
| 14 | Alternatively the purchaser and vendor may agree that some or all of the price is to be based on the net book value of the assets or by reference to earnings . |
| 15 | This is useful where , for : ( 1 ) payment of part of the purchase price of a company or business is deferred , and ( 2 ) the aggregate amount of the purchase price is itself dependent on the performance of the company or the business , over ( typically ) a one or two year period , or ( 3 ) payment for the company or business is to be based on the net asset value stated in what are known as " completion accounts " drawn up by accountants . |
| 16 | Between that year and 1941 he published over thirty other novels , the first to be based on the French Foreign Legion , The Wages of Virtue , appearing in 1916 . |
| 17 | The guidance should require site selection to be based on the positive need to encourage access other than by car . |
| 18 | The first sift has to be based on the written application , hence the need for a good form and experienced people who are able to make suitable assessments of candidates ' experience , and strengths and weaknesses against the requirements of the job . |
| 19 | Claims to be based on the real-life experiences of LAPD detective Jerry Beck . |
| 20 | It was to be based on the British proposals in Chicago . |
| 21 | The teacher , introducing a drama which is going to be based on the Pied Piper story , might ask the class how they want the Pied Piper to be played . |
| 22 | However , this conclusion is unreliable as it appears to be based on the daily average mispricing , rather than individual mispricings . |
| 23 | To be based in the northern town of Karasjok , the new assembly would be a consultative body only , and concern itself with issues of direct importance to the community , such as fishing and land rights and the preservation of cultural traditions . |
| 24 | The fifth wave , the one which it is hypothesized is starting now , seems likely to be based in the non-industrial parts of the south and east of England , especially the M4 corridor and around Cambridge . |
| 25 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 26 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 27 | There 's a lot to be said for the modern falconry centres — anything that helps people to appreciate birds of prey is a good thing as far as I 'm concerned — although it 's a shame they have to be turned into tourist attractions . |
| 28 | In instrumental terms there is much to be said for the informal approach . |
| 29 | There is something , at least , to be said for the old order : ‘ Educational injustice enabled people to preserve their illusions , inequality of opportunity fostered the myth of human equality . ’ |
| 30 | However , to assert that there is a very great deal remaining to be said about the mutual effects of semantics and syntax may seem a bold claim , perhaps even a surprising one , given the number of those who have worked on both areas and the many publications with titles suggesting that the two have been linked inside their covers . |