Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Hungarian government issued a warning in February 1991 that all agreements and contracts with the Soviet Union were at companies ' own risk and that no government loans would be available . |
| 32 | While they endured the loneliness of the enforced separation , the humiliation of intimate medical examinations , and harrowing interview sessions , their parents were at Children 's Hearings in Kirkwall , starting the bitter fight for their return . |
| 33 | The second point of concern is about children 's services . |
| 34 | The first one is about nerves ' , which is the term the refugees use for depression . |
| 35 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 36 | ‘ Birth control is n't just about the population problem , it 's about women 's autonomy , ’ she said . |
| 37 | He is after women 's bodies for all the other things too : love , spiritual communion , loss of self , exaltation . |
| 38 | In this chapter , however , our concern is with managements ' authority functions and their strategies in relation to their workforce . |
| 39 | ‘ And she 's into women 's lib , ’ added Finn ill-advisedly . |
| 40 | Which in , when I get hold of that , the way we 're going to do it , it 's in stages th , this is the bit where we said we get paid two hundred and eighty pound did n't we , for marketing , prospecting , approaching and finally planning . |
| 41 | To return to the shareholder example , having raised the point that it is in shareholders ' interests to ensure their returns are reasonable , it logically follows that there will be an incentive for them to spend a certain amount of time and money finding out about the firm 's activities and performance . |
| 42 | It is in yachtsmen 's best interests that some flexibility is permitted now , otherwise all the wide and diverse skills that prevail on the Hamble at the present time will gradually disappear . |
| 43 | But for the present my principal interest is in meanings qua explicitly posited topics of discourse . |
| 44 | The temptation for some present-day commentators has been to conclude that it is in women 's ‘ real ’ interests to limit divorce . |
| 45 | Leapor is prepared to fight for her dignity , and , indeed , believes it is in women 's characters to resist a tyranny , even if they are deprived of the hope of success . |
| 46 | Whether or not you believe that such a move is in consumers ' interest depends on your point of view . |
| 47 | The hon. Gentleman must answer this question : how can he argue that it is in patients ' interests to move away from a system of competitive tendering and use that money to pay trade union members rather than to pay for extra treatment for patients ? |
| 48 | Questions are categorised as closed ( where teacher wants answer which is already in her/his mind ) and open ( where teacher is interested in knowing what is in pupils ' minds ) . |
| 49 | The crucial factors are the relative opportunity costs and the ratio of men 's to women 's earnings . |
| 50 | The effect of the sharp rise of the ratio of women 's to men 's wages in 1972 is evident in the graph ( Ermisch 1979 ) . |
| 51 | As with men 's share of unpaid household work , indicators such as the ratio of women 's to men 's rates of pay , plotted in figure 10.2 , and women 's share in household earnings , have shown some changes but still display a gulf between the sexes . |
| 52 | Cultural and social forces are also likely to be important in explaining the fall in fertility , but among economic factors the ratio of women 's to men 's pay emerges as having contributed to falling birth rates during the 1970s . |
| 53 | However , it can be questioned just how central this principle of temporal priority is to children 's understanding of natural causal relations . |
| 54 | It must also take account of : ( 1 ) the market position and economic and financial strength of the parties to the merger ; ( 2 ) the availability of alternative products ; ( 3 ) barriers to entry ; ( 4 ) the interests of consumers ; and ( 5 ) the development of technical and economic progress as long as it is to consumers ' advantage and does not form an obstacle to competition . |
| 55 | His focus is on teachers ' understandings of , and attempts to cope with the situations they experience in schools , and the various pressures and constraints that shape the teaching environment and over which teachers have little control . |
| 56 | The orthodox Jews are the only community in this country where sex is on women 's terms , and where women can truthfully say that they are not used by their husbands . |
| 57 | Tomorrow 's Europe must have a Bill of Rights and a Thatcher Carta , she cried , despite being about as keen on a Bill of Rights for Britain and a Social Charter for today 's EC as she is on workers ' soviets |
| 58 | The first effect is on banks ' balance sheets . |
| 59 | The sum of the subclass medians was for controls 99.7% ; for the ulcerative colitis group 101.1% ; and for the Crohn 's disease group 96.4% . |
| 60 | ‘ That was for Andropulos 's benefit . |