Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences between disciplines which Taylor refers to are compounded by differences between sectors , institutions and even departments . |
| 2 | Careful selection of critical areas for sectioning saves time and expense , and allows subsequent petrographic study to be based on knowledge of the section 's context . |
| 3 | In much of the literature , savings are assumed to be based on rules of thumb . |
| 4 | Most trivial arguments are said to be based on matters of principle . |
| 5 | In particular , reward structures are unlikely to be correlated with long-term returns ; in fact managerial compensation is likely to be based on performance over a two- or three-year period . |
| 6 | Since the two main reservoirs of infection are larvae in the prey or eggs on the ground , control has to be based on treatment of worm infection in the host animals , and on adequate hygiene to limit the possibility of acquisition of infection by ingestion of eggs . |
| 7 | By the time Lucky Jim appeared , however , Amis was a lecturer in English at Swansea , though the novel is more likely to be based on recollections of a visit to his friend Larkin at Leicester , to whom it is dedicated ; and Bradbury 's Eating People is Wrong was written by a graduate student at Manchester University . |
| 8 | Although Jacqui went to Carno periodically and helped teach Meirion and others how to grade , a skill she had learnt at college , Laura wanted Jacqui to be based in Carno as one of her growing design team . |
| 9 | The discussion in the preceding section has emphasized how insights from the corporate-strategy literature may help in arriving at a sensible assessment of individual project cash flows , and that models need to be based upon theories about market success . |
| 10 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 11 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 12 | The envoy pleaded that there was much to be said for the Duke , to which Gustavus replied that there was much to be said for lice by those who cared for them . |
| 13 | Yet there is much to be said for thinking of the general , the ‘ disinterested ’ , and what I have called the theoretical as one and the same . |
| 14 | There is little to be said about music in the Roman Catholic Church in this country until the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council . |
| 15 | Sometimes they are supposed to be said by characters in the illustrations , but there is nothing to indicate who is speaking . |
| 16 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 17 | It takes as fact that employers , judges and Tory legislators can do no wrong , and so it is hardly surprising that it finds nothing to be said in favour of trade unions . |
| 18 | Moore himself said later that there was little to be said in favour of this account . |
| 19 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 20 | In conclusion , my Lords , it seems to me that , unless the procedure adopted by the moving party is ill suited to dispose of the question at issue , there is much to be said in favour of the proposition that a court having jurisdiction ought to let a case be heard rather than entertain a debate concerning the form of the proceedings . |
| 21 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 22 | There is however much to be said in favour of the dearer and more specific articulation of substantive principles to guide the exercise of administrative discretion . |
| 23 | Although there is much to be said in favour of the notion of evolution by discrete jumps in plants , particularly through allopolyploidy involving small numbers of individuals , current orthodoxy holds that the greater part of speciation events occurs through the isolation of fragments of an initial population , the change of these fragments in response to the conditions in their isolation and , with the breakdown of isolation , the co-existence of the newly speciated populations in one locality . |
| 24 | Had the matter been res integra , there is much to be said in favour of Judge Davies QC 's reasoning . |
| 25 | The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it . |
| 26 | A COUNCIL tax ranging from £297 to £900 is set to be fixed for householders in Fife . |
| 27 | At a date to be fixed in September at the Little Lakes Club , Bewdley , there is an invitation challenge match while individual knockout matches for the Coalport Vase will be played throughout the season . |
| 28 | It is suggested that it is unsatisfactory to allow the rent to be fixed in reliance on assertions made by the parties which can not be challenged by cross examination , and where the expert is not to be given an opportunity of seeing and evaluating the quality of the witnesses . |
| 29 | But the statutory formula does not seek to value the benefit to the employee as such , but requires the quantum of the benefit to be fixed by reference to the cost to the employer in providing it . |
| 30 | And three quarters want to be taught about relationships as part of their sex education too . |