Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb base] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equipment already purchased for estates work is at present unlinked to the LAN but may be in the future for more efficient financial management . |
| 2 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 3 | Within these phenomena four main areas of study have been of interest to rural geographers ; first , and most enduring of all , the study of rural population change ; second , and more recent in its concern , the study of rural communities ; third , and of more general relevance to other chapters in this book , the classification and definition of rural areas by both their population and employment characteristics ; and fourth , the study of employment in rural areas . |
| 4 | Later theoretical developments of psychoanalysis have been by analysts who have largely given up this second requirement of a theoretical conceptualization , yet it was a fundamental one for Freud himself . |
| 5 | Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have been amongst the retailers having a difficult time of late . |
| 6 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 7 | In recent years , virtually all domestic issues of bonds have been by means of a placing . |
| 8 | The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity have been at Bartestree Convent in Herefordshire for 130 years . |
| 9 | The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity have been at Bartestree Convent in Herefordshire for 130 years . |
| 10 | Some 90% of sales have been for databases , electronic mail systems and Computer Aided Design . |
| 11 | Most records of movement have been to the west , which may not be significant . |
| 12 | Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found . |
| 13 | The majority of suggestions have been on the lines that there should be a one- or two-year period in which it should be possible for the capital of discretionary trusts to be distributed tax free provided the settlement was made before 26th March 1974 and the result of the distribution was that there would be either absolute entitlement to the property or an interest in possessing it . |
| 14 | We followed up the representations that were made by the hon. Lady and by others on that point , and the regional offices of the Department of Employment have been in negotiation with TECs to try to establish the extent to which they need additional resources to meet the YT guarantee . |
| 15 | The research is designed to investigate the changing organisation of service sector employment nationally , the particular impact of its expansion in East Anglia , where rates of growth have been above the national average , and to establish the consequence of this growth for class and gender relations in the two local labour markets of Norwich and Ipswich . |
| 16 | The most rapid rates of growth have been in the professional and scientific services , in insurance and other financial services , in miscellaneous services and in public administration and defence , while employment in distribution and transport has stagnated or declined . |
| 17 | The main areas of growth have been in inter-bank deposits , certificates of deposit and the foreign currency markets . |
| 18 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 19 | The class struggles of history have been between minorities . |
| 20 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 21 | Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity . |
| 22 | The names which have previously confused scholars would in effect have been like the variety of names used for , say , a contemporary political party or , at most , for the spectrum of groups and individuals which coalesced into a single movement — the French Resistance , during the German occupation . |
| 23 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |
| 24 | Dividing the colony will merely make its members more vulnerable , they argue , while previous efforts to breed rhinos in captivity have been at best unreliable . |
| 25 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 26 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 27 | For much of this century , the mines in Cornwall have been in the doldrums . |
| 28 | Provisions in the Constitution for Turkish Cypriot participation in government have been in abeyance since intercommunal fighting in 1963 . |
| 29 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 30 | The local press in Dyfed have been in no doubt that the bank were to blame to ruining a business of the type desperately needed in the area . |