Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part this may be justified because the UK competes in large world markets where the firms will have little monopoly power , but , given the documented lack of success of merged companies , successive governments may have encouraged too many mergers . |
| 2 | It should be emphasized that the CMHTs frequently worked in partnership with other elements of the voluntary and social services sectors ( see Table 5 ) . |
| 3 | The drug companies are not simply ‘ crying wolf ’ when they say their success in high technology will be jeopardised if the Greenfield recommendation for generic substitution are enforced . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that the Dudley ( or Sutton ) family was prominent in the history of England especially in late Tudor times , and held many estates and titles including , for a short time , the dukedom of Northumberland . |
| 5 | It will be recalled that the Keynes effect critically relies first upon the response of the rate of interest to wage-price deflation and secondly upon the response of investment to lower interest rates . |
| 6 | But it could be stopped if the Suffolk based brewery Greene King is successful in its take-over bid . |
| 7 | But it could be stopped if the Suffolk based brewery Greene King is successful in its take-over bid . |
| 8 | Can it be supposed that the Doomsday Book is the only sort of writing in which immortality is achieved ? |
| 9 | Short of mass expulsion or the annihilation of the Albanians of Kosovo , the problems of Kosovo will never be solved until the Serbs accept the Albanians as an equal national component of Yugoslavia , entitled to the same treatment as all the other Yugoslav nations . |
| 10 | It may be added that the Montreal Tramways case was cited and relied on in the earliest United States case of 1946 where the changed view , that the child could sue , was adopted . |
| 11 | Considerable political turmoil can be expected until the Washington meeting takes place , and sources here predict that Mr Arens wil be taking a very hardline position that will preclude any participation by the PLO . |
| 12 | If retrieval of the CS-US association depends upon the presence of the cues of the conditioning context whereas the cues of the pre-exposure context allow retrieval of the information that the target stimulus is not followed by any event , then no conditioned responding can be expected when the CS is presented in the latter context . |
| 13 | ‘ Democratic activities can be carried out , but it should not be forgotten that the Tatmadaw ( army ) is the life of the nation , ’ warned a slogan in the government-run Working People 's Daily . |
| 14 | It must , however , be stressed that the OED is the dictionary of the English language world-wide ; it covers American , Canadian , Australasian , South African , Caribbean , and many other overseas varieties of English with the same care and attention as British English . |
| 15 | Also , it needs to be stressed that the McKinsey-GE matrix or a Porter analysis allows for different key characteristics to represent market attractiveness and competitive strengths according to the nature of the SBU and the market in which it is located . |
| 16 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 17 | The proposal of help could only be accepted if the BF altered their constitution to make explicit their belief in parliamentary government . |
| 18 | It had to be decided whether the Vienna Convention would include provisions on objective regimes , or whether they would be subsumed under the general prescription . |
| 19 | It can be seen that the SOED contains historical information , is formal in its style and content , and tends to use short punctuated phrases to provide coverage of each sense definition . |
| 20 | While the top five destinations have remained unaltered it can be seen that the United States is attracting a steadily declining share of Scottish products . |
| 21 | So it can be seen that the Wolverton Royal Train , with this modern programme , will move into the 21 st century , giving Wolverton Works the unique role of conveyors of Royalty through three centuries . |
| 22 | It can be seen that the Woodward analysis of jobbing production corresponds to the description given in paragraph 3 above , but by giving each of the main types of jobbing production its own title , the Woodward analysis provides for a more accurate representation of the range of options . |
| 23 | From these results it can be seen that the Marshall formula produces the best formula to use for bigrams and the least successful is the simple frequency count of tag transitions . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen whether the IBM name will prove to be boon or bane . |
| 25 | It remains to be seen whether the DES 's new funding arrangements for in-service training will enhance or inhibit that alliance , despite its avowed intentions to do the former . |
| 26 | This could be done if the WRU were to organise a summer tour of four or five matches to one of the lesser European nations . |
| 27 | Everyone agrees that there is much to be done if the UK 's innovation performance is to be improved . |
| 28 | ‘ Much more needs to be done if the UK is to meet its CO2 emissions target by the year 2000 and control them beyond that date . |
| 29 | But much more needed to be done if the CEGB 's post-Sizewell tide of optimism was to be turned . |
| 30 | At this point it must be said that the CA methodology is not without its critics . |