Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 2 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 3 | Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year . |
| 4 | Professor Kanter , who was recently voted one of the 100 most important women in the United States by a leading business magazine , does not dispute that the agenda for change is based around the so-called ‘ softer ’ values . |
| 5 | It is important to consider the institutional framework regulating relationships between employer and unions , since this will influence the way in which external political pressures for change are carried into the corporation . |
| 6 | The Head of Department is responsible for ensuring that proposals for change are considered by appropriate field and/or subject committees and the departmental board and in particular that resource implications are identified . |
| 7 | The need for change was reinforced by a series of briefings held with all the workforce which highlighted shortfalls in communication due to the management structure and the need to respond quicker to customers . |
| 8 | 2.2 The case for change was presented in a report which recommended a structure for continuity and progression . |
| 9 | They need to make a regular picture available to the national originators of change and to those agencies who are responsible for change being organized in specific way . |
| 10 | Learning to value the skills they have developed through running a home and family was just one of thousands of options for change being offered to women at Colchester Town Hall on an Education Day organised as part of this year 's Adult Learners ’ Week . |
| 11 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 12 | Further , land inside the older towns was acquiring a scarcity value , above all in the towns that were surrounded by open fields , so that they could not grow outwards ( see Chapter 9 ) , and a steady rise in the price of land for building was added to the rise in the price of borrowed money . |
| 13 | The exchange was contingent upon planning permission for building being given on the vacated site . |
| 14 | For example , the standard enthalpy of atomisation of hydrogen is given by whereas the standard bond dissociation enthalpy for hydrogen is given by |
| 15 | Speaking next , Medvedev 's report on his work as secretary for ideology was greeted with open hostility , and there were jeers and whistling as he left the podium . |
| 16 | When the estimated value of £472.6 million for whisky is added to the total of £351.3 million for other exports , the cumulative total comes to £823.9 million for Grampian exports — 9.6% of all Scottish exports . |
| 17 | But , then , his entire stock of knowledge about Islam was derived from Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 18 | Officials in Brussels claimed Mr MacSharry 's scope for bargaining was undermined by warnings from M Delors that he would not sanction a deal which penalised Europe 's farmers . |
| 19 | One reason why she brought Michael Heseltine in as Secretary of State for Defence is said to be his ability as a public-relations man . |
| 20 | Although Meyer remained Minister of Communications , his responsibilities for Defence were given to a Gene Louw , hitherto Home Affairs Minister , who was also named as Minister of Public Works . |
| 21 | The tact that the effect survives a contextual change so readily encourages acknowledgement of the possibility that a non-associative process ( such as differentiation is presumed to be ) may be in part responsible for it . |
| 22 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
| 23 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 24 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 25 | Overall , the potential for agriculture is limited by topography , especially slope angles and water availability . |
| 26 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 27 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and are stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 28 | The prize for literature was awarded on Oct. 11 to the Mexican poet , Octavio Paz . |
| 29 | Next door , Frank Dobson 's modelled terracotta study for Pax is set beside the work of five other portrait painters . |
| 30 | In May 1976 the first exploration licences specifically for uranium were issued to Maugh Ltd , a subsidiary of the French company Minatome , a company which in turn was partly owned by Total , the French state-owned oil company . |