Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lagged dependent variables suggest that adjustment costs are of importance whilst the presence of lagged determinants of the desired stock suggests that there is more in the data than a simple first-order partial adjustment model might permit . |
| 2 | They 're under threat because a council wants to save money . |
| 3 | ‘ You , Sir , are under arrest until the watch arrive ! ’ |
| 4 | They were greeted by a rousing reception from the town 's starving inhabitants , who have been under siege since the war erupted 11 months ago . |
| 5 | David Smith had been under suspension since the complaint was made . |
| 6 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 7 | The death of Robert Bowes must have been in mind when a warning was incorporated into the questionnaire : " … sundrie accidents may befall fitt for you to observe , and search out … " |
| 8 | Abdulla Khalid al-Attiya , general manager of the Qatar National Bank , was appointed governor of the Qatar Monetary Agency ( QMA — central bank ) on Jan. 14 , 1990 , replacing Majid Muhammad al-Majid al-Saad , who had been in office since the QMA was founded in 1973 . |
| 9 | They have been in limbo since the demise of the Beetle chassis , reduced to fitting air dams and wide wheels on to standard car bodies . |
| 10 | Twenty one year old Wayne O'Hora , also from Ecton Brook had been in custody since the killing , but Northampton magistrates granted him conditional bail until next month . |
| 11 | Keith Pringle , 22 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , has been in hospital since the siege ended on April 21 . |
| 12 | There was serious foreign interest in Esselte 's publishing division when it was first put on the market early in 1990 , and Hachette is known to have been in negotiation before an agreement with Liber was finally concluded . |
| 13 | These buildings are now almost equally at risk from insensitive conversion as they are from demolition because a softening in the attitude of local planning authorities towards proposals for change of use of agricultural buildings has recently been encouraged by central government in an attempt to ameliorate the worsening financial circumstances of farmers . |
| 14 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 15 | None of this would be worth remark if the narrative carried us along by virtue of its own strength , but it hardly does . |
| 16 | Questioning everything a company does is usually too risky and confronts too many entrenched interests among managers and employees to be worth doing unless a firm is in dire trouble . |
| 17 | However sophisticated the machinery of ‘ data-processing ’ and costly the enterprise , the outcome is unlikely to be of value if the information collected is spurious in the first place . |
| 18 | Furthermore such preparation would be of value when the time came for serious sexual training . |
| 19 | The only potential drawback is that unlike a training course , this program will only be of use if the user has the discipline to use it on a regular basis . |
| 20 | If the review of energy policy opts for a high coal burn , it will have to be balanced by maintaining ‘ clean ’ nuclear power plant which might also be under threat if the dash for gas is allowed to go unchecked . |
| 21 | So it will be with industry if the money was needed to make good the other deficiencies of sales potential and management then the scheme will fail . |
| 22 | Rye should furnish the topography , so that no one who knew Rye could possibly be in doubt where the scene was laid , and I would call it Tilling because Rye has its river , the Tillingham . |
| 23 | Note also , that neither the Hard Copy System nor the LIFESPAN Relationship Listing program nor any similar LIFESPAN facility should be in operation when the Validation program is run . |
| 24 | ‘ With any luck , I 'll be in business before the month 's out . ’ |
| 25 | students in the two largest IT subject areas of computing and micro-electronics were more likely to be in employment than the average ; |
| 26 | He will still be in hospital when the replay is held next Monday at Villa Park . |
| 27 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard says it is preparing the appropriate channels to handle the volume box , which it says must be in place before the thing is launched . |
| 29 | HP says it is preparing the appropriate channels to move the volume box through , which it says must be in place before the thing is launched . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) If a cash underwritten alternative or a rights issue is being used to finance the bid , the underwriting agreement should be in place before the announcement is made and the terms of the agreement should ensure that there is a guaranteed commitment to provide the necessary funds if the offer becomes or is declared unconditional . |