Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | The front pages of official newspapers have been filled with tales of glorious national triumphs , offset by with a smattering of gloom from the West — unemployment in the US , drugs in Britain , and so on . |
| 3 | Thousands of pages have been filled with theories on how to rear your offspring . |
| 4 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 5 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 6 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 7 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 8 | Some 13,650 full-time and part-time students are enrolled for courses at all levels of higher education , from part-time certificate programmes to doctoral studies . |
| 9 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 10 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 11 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 12 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 13 | Langbaurgh council 's tourism and leisure committee was told that Kart racing and other activities which had been been stopped on Sundays at the controversial Wheelbase Park in South Bank , Middlesbrough , was costing the cash-hit council over £20,000 . |
| 14 | The Murray 's Handbooks to India are punctuated with references to stations much used by pilgrims . |
| 15 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 16 | As a result , five banks — Midland , Security Pacific National , Chemical Bank , Barclays Bank and Mitsubishi Finance Corporation — have been joined as respondents with the council . |
| 17 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 18 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 19 | My ‘ dream-girl ’ was still there , but had now been joined by members of her family . |
| 20 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 21 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 22 | They are dismissed by others in the occult , who claim that the group ‘ tell outsiders this tall story ( of Satan being the Son of God ) to make themselves look respectable ’ . |
| 23 | These violations of laws of purity and holiness are justified in terms of more fundamental principles , concern for the inner ethical motivations of the person , rather than their external bodily state , and respect for all persons , regardless of gender or ethnicity . |
| 24 | The rewards for those who do conform , and the penalties on those who do not , are justified in terms of a cultural tradition which places the group first and the individual second . |
| 25 | Non-basic beliefs are justified in terms of the basic and the basic are justified in some other way ; the asymmetry lies in the fact that justification is all one way , from non-basic to basic . |
| 26 | It therefore follows that technical personnel are assigned to divisions on the basis of discipline , and for the purpose of accountability , control and maintenance of professional standards . |
| 27 | The basic argument with which we are concerned here is that the low level of female crime is a result of the expectations and constraints that are placed on women by society . |
| 28 | Excessive demands are placed on governments by sectional interest groups beyond their capacity to meet them . |
| 29 | Duties are placed on inspectors by Article 30(8) to disclose certain information to persons employed at premises to which the Order applies to assist in keeping such persons adequately informed about matters likely to affect their health , safety and welfare . |
| 30 | Again , taking South Hams as an example , applicants are placed in queues for one of five housing sub-districts and also in one of five groups according to family size , marital status and number of children . |