Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
2 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
3 | Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary . |
4 | The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis . |
5 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
6 | Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types . |
7 | Notes that you can consult are of great value , but much of the fundamental interpretation of your subjects must be based on an effective memory when notes are not to hand . |
8 | The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork . |
9 | The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that . |
10 | Included are around one hundred objects from the Russian State Museum , St Petersburg , including icons , objects in precious metals , textiles , painted wooden sculpture and ecclesiastical jewellery . |
11 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
12 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
13 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
14 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
15 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
16 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
17 | In the post-war period , expenditure on the military has been between 5 and 10 per cent of GDP . |
18 | A measure of your success in a coaching session is when the subordinate feels the discussion has been between two equals and that together you have arrived at the best course of action . |
19 | The most marked shift has been between different sectors : the percentage of output ( Gross Domestic product , or GDP ) accounted for by manufacturing has decreased while the proportion attributable to service industries has increased . |
20 | In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
21 | The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 . |
22 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
23 | It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size . |
24 | The tendency then , has been towards greater reliance upon market forces and competitive freedom ; a shift of emphasis in the way governments aim to trade-off financial sector policy goals and in the regulatory means by which these goals are to be secured . |
25 | As well as this , the trend over the past few years has been towards greater accountability from business in the form of information about matters other than profit and loss . |
26 | It said : ’ The balance of evidence over the last month has been towards continued recession . |
27 | However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items . |
28 | Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice . |
29 | The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy . |
30 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |