Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |
| 2 | The courses are of four years ' duration . |
| 3 | The courses are of four years ' duration . |
| 4 | The courses are of four years ' duration . |
| 5 | Most courses are of 9 months ' duration , beginning in October , but some extend to one or two years . |
| 6 | C1 was to be a two-year course for 16-plus school-leavers with suitable qualifications , leading to a certificate or diploma comparable in status to an OND , while C2 would normally be of two years ' duration and would be for students not so highly qualified or well-motivated as those taking C1 courses . |
| 7 | Where do you want to be in two years ' time . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 9 | This is why they ask you things like , on interviews , and they ask you , where do you see yourself in five years ' time , and I used to say , I do n't even see meself where I 'm going to be in five days ' time , never mind five , just give us the bloody job . |
| 10 | If you can imagine your goal , where you want to be in five years ' time , then you are already part of the way there . |
| 11 | What will happen to me , how I 'll develop , what I 'll be in five years ' time , in ten , in thirty . |
| 12 | Using his earlier experience , he felt , when he moved in , that he needed to gauge where the new school should be in five years ' time . |
| 13 | Do you see the importance of planning ? millions of things you 've got to stick down with , think about , think about your objectives , get that see who it , get that poster up , really think what you wan na be in five years ' time , three years ' time , all the rest of it , seriously think about it . |
| 14 | Right , but what you 've got the opportunity of doing now during being a life assurance sales person , with self-employed status if you like , with the benefits of being in a company like ours , is really thinking where do I want to be in five years ' time . |
| 15 | What will its price be in four weeks ' time if interest rates remain unchanged ? |
| 16 | I can not envisage what the circumstances will be in 20 years ' time . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend is concerned about what the strength of the infantry will be in three years ' time . |
| 18 | Where sickness rates are high it might be in both employers ' and employees ' interests for the company to introduce private health cover , where swift treatment may mean an earlier return to work . |
| 19 | It was not plain sailing and orthodox and ‘ liberal ’ Communists will be at each others ' throats — at local level — until they hold a full congress next January to determine new policies once and for all and to approve new leaders . |
| 20 | Economically , of course , it had never ceased and had been to both countries ' benefit . |
| 21 | Loco workings have now slumped to nearly zero and the only locos seen are on civil engineers ' trains . |
| 22 | are on three months ' placement with , on a three months ' placement with the Authority until the middle of September as part of a six months ' training programme organised by the South African Advanced Educational Project . |
| 23 | All teams are at ten minutes ' notice to move . |
| 24 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 25 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 26 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 27 | The course is for four years ' duration . |
| 28 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 29 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 30 | The course is of two years ' duration . |