Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeble ( 1980 ) had included this variable as a proxy for ‘ the restructuring hypothesis ’ , by which he meant the argument that the real reason for decentralization was that manufacturing industry was under pressure to cut costs and had changed location in a search for cheaper , ‘ green ’ labour . |
| 2 | But the most effective channel for change is underground workers themselves , organizing into groups or networks . |
| 3 | Its main lever for change was enhanced staffing , and in particular the role of PNP coordinator . |
| 4 | Mixed in with the plea for self-empowering was this justification by appeal to natural justice . |
| 5 | Harrogate and Hambleton for instance are large districts , they extend many miles from North to South , development concentrated around the metropolitan areas will draw out commuters . |
| 6 | Additionally , the monitoring of expenditure , the assessment of educational outcomes and the achievement of value for money are essential functions which have been strengthened by statute and are clearly the role of local government . |
| 7 | While the figures given presumably refer to the state of play in 953/1546–7 , the note in the summary that the original salary for teaching was 15 akce and the reference to teaching in the section concerned with the stipulation(s) laid down by the founder sart-i vakif ) suggest that the medrese figured in the original . |
| 8 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 9 | Fireman Sam Ready for Action is great fun . |
| 10 | Our priorities for investment are preschool education , education and training for 16–19 year olds , and adult education . |
| 11 | Our priorities for investment are preschool education , education and training for 16–19 year olds and adult education . |
| 12 | There is a strong sense in which the audience for research is other researchers . |
| 13 | The region for study is greater Humberside , which has developed an unusual concentration of activities with potentially heavy pollution impacts upon land , air and water . |
| 14 | The fact that sceptics are not sceptical about scepticism is further evidence that to doubt anything we must believe something . |
| 15 | The 10 workshops trial tested were of varying lengths but collectively the time required for completion was 6 working days so a considerable degree of commitment was required from all concerned . |
| 16 | It should be noted that where the grounds for revocation be serious detriment to the amenity the area , any disposal operation will be allowed to continue pending an appeal under s. 10(2) . |
| 17 | One of Thompson and Spencer 's ( 1966 ) list of ‘ criteria ’ for habituation is that habituation proceeds most readily with closely spaced trials ; but latent inhibition appears to be more profound when the pre-exposure trials are relatively widely spaced ( Lantz 1973 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ; but see also Crowell and Anderson 1972 ) . |
| 18 | The half-life for geophysics was found to be 12 years ; for general geology 13 years , and that for palaeontology was 25 years . |
| 19 | It is hard to see how the denial of a patient 's right to be an organ donor after death is ethical behaviour . |
| 20 | No one doubts that five bars of chocolate eaten for lunch is unhealthy eating . |
| 21 | If we choose a different set A , containing kind-of-coat but omitting form-of-fur and length-of-beak , and if the possible values for kind-of-coat are shaggy fur straight fur short feathers long feathers then the whole classification can be completed with just simple concepts because the function kind-of-coat is total . |
| 22 | The average number of word-paths for Ms was 3.73 x 1013 . |
| 23 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 24 | But the good thing about follow-up is these targets |
| 25 | Among the most significant for theology were Philosophical Fragments ( 1844 ) , Stages on Life 's Way ( 1845 ) and Concluding Unscientific Postscript ( 1846 ) . |
| 26 | It is when this mass of dancers divides and moves to the sides that the open space available for dancing is exposed fur the first time . |
| 27 | One consequence for plot is that composition becomes equated with comic recital . |
| 28 | Thus , the mean duration of colitis at the time of diagnosis of stricture was 14.5 years in the benign group ( range 1.5–35 years ) and 25 years in the malignant group ( range 10–40 years ) . |
| 29 | An assessment of progress is essential midway through the allocation . |
| 30 | But the most convincing demonstration of the spread of change is that support was withdrawn from Mr Livingstone in every part of the country except London . |