Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication of sex differences in economic activity for economic inequality are among the questions that are being pursued in my current research with John Ermisch and other colleagues . |
| 2 | IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp are among the companies planning to incorporate the Desktop Management Task Force 's Desktop Management Interface into their operating systems . |
| 3 | Certainly , preventive strategies and modern medicine will tend to counteract negative selective forces and will maintain the frequency of the thrifty genotype in human populations , but , as Neel soberly pointed out , ‘ efforts to preserve the diabetes genotype through this transient period of plenty are in the interests of mankind , ’ for some time in the future we may again be glad to have it . |
| 4 | The first book printed in Florence , a 1471–72 Virgil , the earliest printed Greek Homer and first editions of Ficino and the Divina commedia are among the items on show . |
| 5 | I suspect that people who work in the industry are under no illusions . |
| 6 | The idea behind the Partnership Act is that the internal affairs of the partnership are for the partners to decide . |
| 7 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 8 | Body and mind were among the contraries to be reconciled , and the true union of opposites was always preceded by bitter conflict . |
| 9 | Communications , security and the maintenance of the entire complex were in the hands of Russian officers under contract to the Iraqi government . |
| 10 | A truer parallel is the archaic temple of Apollo at Delphi , with its battle in the west and on the east the frontal chariot flanked by kouroi and korai , a very still composition , the only action being in the animal-groups at the corners . |
| 11 | Perhaps the only two successful threats of action were by the water-workers in 1983 and the NUM over the Coal Board 's threat to close uneconomic pits in January 1981 . |
| 12 | Bicester Rugby Club were in the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup following an excellent hard four weeks , to go to Gloucester opponents , Hucklecote Old Boys at this afternoon . |
| 13 | We just have to write one side on the rational and one side on the method and the third side 's on the results . |
| 14 | Perhaps an exchange type deal is on the cards . |
| 15 | ‘ It showed British football is behind the Germans ' in technique . |
| 16 | But here in the Central South area the real contest is between the Tories and the Liberal Democrats . |
| 17 | And still of a winter 's night , they say , when the wind is in the trees , When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas , When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor , A highwayman comes riding — |
| 18 | And still of a winter 's night they say , when the wind is in the trees , when the moon is a ghostly galleon , tossed upon cloudy seas . |
| 19 | Whether the law is on Venables ' side is in the hands of the judge . |
| 20 | His home club is at The Lakes , Sydney , which is a par-73 championship course . |
| 21 | Well now you see the week that William 's down the John 's , in John 's and they 'll tell you all erm once the tea 's over the dishes , I do the dishes right away |
| 22 | Soon the subordinate zones shrink to narrow pattern-borders and all the concentration is on the figure-scenes , executed in a variety of techniques : outline , outline filled with white , a mixture of black and white silhouette , and sometimes black-figure , used with more colour than is common at Corinth and seldom for the main figures . |
| 23 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 24 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 25 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 26 | The primary focus of research is on the records generated by the enforcement in the late fourteenth century of the labour laws , the earliest attempt at national wage regulation . |
| 27 | This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively . |
| 28 | Marriage , or engagement is on the cards for next February . |
| 29 | I think a lot of mis misogyny is behind the scenes in the all |
| 30 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |