Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF .
2 We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre .
3 ‘ This case has been through the due process of law , has been carefully considered at every stage and reviewed at frequent intervals .
4 This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue .
5 It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand .
6 Written by Sarah Daniels , it is being performed by Clean Break , a theatre company mounting professional productions performed by women who have been through the criminal justice system , including ex-prisoners , ex-probationers and those committed at some time to secure observation and psychiatric units .
7 Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro .
8 I think the one clear thing to come out from my study is that erm with very careful preparation and with adequate thought about teaching methods that a school can successfully go over to mixed ability teaching without any necessary impact on the standards of performance of the pupils , and this has really been justified recently in the O level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their O levels in the school .
9 And this has really been justified recently in the ‘ O ’ level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their ‘ O ’ levels in the school , and they performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously .
10 Unlike North America the involvement of government in economic life has been through the increased regulation of the private sector ; in the U K it has resulted in the public ownership of the industries or utilities concerned .
11 Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale .
12 Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage .
13 Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ?
14 Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives .
15 Erm I must say I share Peter 's view here that the er location of the new settlement , whether in general terms or by district , has not been through the public consultation process .
16 Sadly , though , we have in the past year been through the painful process of shedding a large number of jobs .
17 Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced .
18 The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer .
19 We 've been through the whole thing with adoption !
20 Food which has been through the steaming mode has an appetizing colour , is cooked al dente ( still firm when bitten ) , and retains all the important nutrients , vitamins and minerals .
21 On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country .
22 L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course .
23 Maddison , 22 , has survived four knee operations and he said : ‘ I 've been through the worst time of my career — now , at last , I 'm getting the chance to show what I can do .
24 Despite having been through the regulatory mangle time again and time again , the group still has the potential to generate a lot of cash , and yields about 8 p.c. on forecasts for 1993 .
25 They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’
26 Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation .
27 He had been through the same mill a couple of years before .
28 Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal .
29 I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 .
30 Erm Works , Q S , Business Manager , B E S have been through the same process as you 're going through today .
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