Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | If you are accepting instructions on behalf of a partnership , it is again a good idea to check that the person who approaches you has authority to act on their behalf . |
| 3 | Underwater there are hidden dangers for river-life . |
| 4 | The corporations are imposed by central government and are given powers of land and development that have been seen as ‘ staggering ’ ( Cullingworth , 1985 , p. 282 ) . |
| 5 | Problematic employees are given letters of counselling which are filed in an unfavourable information folder . |
| 6 | Simple photographs , perceived to have little artistic quality are afforded copyright protection for only twenty-five years after death whereas editorial photographs and ‘ artistic ’ photographs are given periods of protection of fifty years and seventy years after death , respectively . |
| 7 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 8 | Students are given opportunities at field and Modular Course level to raise difficulties not addressed at the level of modules . |
| 9 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 10 | Activists are helping comrades in dispute , be they miners , railway workers , bus drivers or whatever . |
| 11 | KWS Knitwear Design is an asset for many home computer users who are knitting clothes by hand or machine . |
| 12 | KWS Knitwear Design is an asset for many home computer users who are knitting clothes by hand or machine . |
| 13 | But Anthony Arnold , chairman of the Vale of Glamorgan Conservative Association , said the visit by the Central Office agent had been arranged weeks in advance . |
| 14 | He flew to Holyhead in a helicopter from the Queen 's flight and then on to Anglesey for a series of visits which had been arranged months in advance . |
| 15 | DEC was trying to gain visibility last week for the 661 companies it says are porting programs over Alpha . |
| 16 | The UK 's leading environmental groups are maintaining levels of support through the recession , but the rapid rate of membership growth experienced over the past few years has slackened . |
| 17 | Two policemen who helped convict a fraudulent investment consultant have been given certificates of commendation . |
| 18 | Minority representatives , including two Indians , have seven seats ; three other guerrilla movements have been given seats in return for disarming . |
| 19 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 20 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 21 | Some researchers are pursuing studies in soil stabilisation using cement , lime and bitumen . |
| 22 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 23 | Make sure the reader knows why you are including pieces of information . |
| 24 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 25 | If there has been a diminution in the voltage , however , there are compensating pleasures of wit . |
| 26 | ‘ Lee Trevino has been blamed times without number for talking players off their game . |
| 27 | This may suit you , for example , if you are buying land in sections , or are acquiring premises in advance of refurbishing them . |
| 28 | This , of course , assumes that there are returning officers in existence to whom the Clerk can send the writ . |
| 29 | PERSONNEL Personnel chiefs are gaining seats on company boards |
| 30 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |