Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In addition all the functions of the unc sec. stopwatch are complemented by audible signals .
2 Here P–40 replicas are nearing completion .
3 ‘ Perhaps the ancient fairies are looking after things round here . ’
4 End up amongst them and the problems are evident , unless of course the wood fairies are smiling upon you .
5 Fairies are reported to be thick on the ground living in grassy mounds all over the island .
6 BLACK MUSLIMS FROM the Nation of Islam are gathered in force outside the Hackney Empire .
7 Women in Islam are held in very high esteem , which Westerners do n't seem to realise .
8 Affection and dread are mixed in ambivalence , grief becomes guilt , and often a disgust factor at the kind of tasks to be undertaken compounds the pain ( Ungerson , 1987 ) .
9 ‘ At a time when the lending institutions are recognising the need for a careful analysis of potential customers ’ ability to meet loan repayments , Consumer Payment Profile is another example of the added-value service which Infolink can provide . ’
10 From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi .
11 If institutions are funded from the same general purse , on the whole they mesh together and work easily together .
12 There are 77 other local authorities playing the markets in a similar , though less extensive , way , and a similar number of financial institutions are involved .
13 These social institutions are involved when actions of a sexual nature or actions of a violent character have occurred .
14 Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) .
15 Simple exhortation , however , offers no cure in these days when many of the country 's institutions are seen to have foundations built on sand .
16 The financial institutions ' separation from , and domination of , manufacturers gives yearly accounts a much greater salience than in countries where financial institutions are made more receptive to manufacturer 's requirements , and this in turn highlights the artificial distinction between operating costs and capital outlays .
17 Add to this the fact that our universities and practically all our major cultural institutions are run by English people , and that many of the executive posts in local government and other organisations are occupied by them , and it will be clear that Scotland is rapidly being colonised , indeed being turned into an extension of England .
18 Our academic institutions help to maintain a flow of the kind of cultural capital on which our wider social institutions are based .
19 Many EEC ( European Economic Community ) institutions are based in his country , including the European Court of Justice .
20 Elections in the United States take place every two years ( more frequently if one includes state and local elections ) and , as part of the checks and balances built into the process by the constitution , different institutions are elected for different tenures .
21 Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out .
22 But , as I say , this is about ten years ago but we 're now run into another problem whereby the erm institutions are beginning go back again and want to project their own images , right the way through .
23 These er er orders today are n't based on a thorough inquiry er into how audits on the the financial institutions are conducted , what 's wrong with them , what goes wrong , not even a thorough er inquiry into what happened in the B C C I case , er we ca n't legislate , we ca n't legi or regulate I put it without er er er a thorough inquiry and yet here we have er orders brought in er without inquiry .
24 From this examination , the functions of institutions are discovered .
25 We are learning that the way institutions are organized is increasingly a problem for men as well as women .
26 In general , institutions are organized social groups embodying social roles , relations , processes , norms and instruments or complexes of cultural patterns , norms and procedures , which satisfy some important social interest ( e.g. educational , economic , religious , etc ) .
27 A resolution unexpectedly approved on Nov. 21 advocated " the independence of religion from state " , in view of a " politicization of religion " in which " religious institutions are abusing the values of democracy " .
28 Law can not fulfil this function unless the decisions of the legal institutions are binding or non-optional .
29 The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision .
30 One such proposal from Wolverhampton Polytechnic for a course lasting three semesters , for holders of Dip.HEs and HND qualifications , has already received approval and validation but is not yet running , and the other three institutions are hoping to submit course proposals for validation in the near future , one to a university and two to the CNAA .
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