Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.

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1 King Arthur , so the story goes was born at Tintagel Castle and raised there by Merlin the magician .
2 In this case and if the time constant RC also happens to equal the pulse duration τ Thus As anticipated , this integral is difficult to evaluate but it does reduce to the solution expected from chapter 4 of when when when Help with difficult inverse Fourier transforms is often available from special tables .
3 The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last .
4 Records will be read into primary storage , their keys will be transformed by the algorithm being used , and if the address the algorithm produces is free they will be stored in that address on the direct access device .
5 However , the strong suspicion seems justified that the speech , and the one before it in September , mainly warmed the hearts of the depressed Party faithful , and that the central SD digests were mainly recording reactions from the dwindling number of Party diehards .
6 I have pointed out elsewhere that the epoch of Western civilization to which Rado refers is dominated by a process of unconscious recapitulation of polytheism in Christianity .
7 Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage live in unmarked graves on Merseyside .
8 Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage lie in unmarked graves on Merseyside .
9 If each novel a writer produces is meant to indicate the direction in which he or she is progressing , it does not provide the clear signpost that The Child In Time did .
10 A SICILIAN accused of forming a Mafia cell in the Alpine city of Grenoble has been expelled to Italy .
11 More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes .
12 British anti-fur trade group Lynx has been forced to close following the successful libel action brought by Swalesmoor Mink Farm .
13 Sometimes this means that a single prohibited action or technique is enough to lose you the match even though no scoring technique has been made .
14 A less obvious example of this failure to take protective measures occurs when a contestant believes that a scoring technique has been delivered , and so disengages and dances around the area waving a fist in the air .
15 This technique has been used to find the amounts of elements such as iron , sodium , potassium , aluminium , calcium , magnesium , lithium and phosphorus in the flint , and it was the concentrations of these elements which were different for different mines .
16 This powerful technique has been limited so far to molecules that can be excited by CO 2 lasers , which have limited tunability .
17 Interviewing as a technique has been studied and analysed and research suggests that technique can , in fact , be improved with training .
18 Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing .
19 This technique has been applied to the study of platelet function in diabetic subjects ( Jones et al , 1985 ) .
20 An audio-tape recording in which the exercises are described can be a useful adjunct to teaching the patient this method , provided the therapist has first demonstrated the procedure to the patient , and the technique has been learned adequately .
21 This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) .
22 The more successful the new employee is being , the more successful you can assume your interview technique has been .
23 This survival technique has been very easily exploited by commercial breeders of marine invertebrates , especially those raising animals destined for the table as food .
24 Comprising of a completely new type of lotion and pinless , lightweight rollers , this unique technique has been introduced to keep up with the increasing demand for 90 's sets .
25 The technique has been used to examine natural trace-metal variations in surface waters and shallow groundwaters in Northern Ireland : for example , high concentrations of aluminium and beryllium are found in waters associated with the Mourne granites .
26 A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells .
27 This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines .
28 A support and training technique has been developed , based on the Caplan model of inter-professional process consultation ( Caplan 1970 ) , a technique of regular group sessions where consultant and colleagues pool their equal but differing expertise in a process of joint exploration of a difficulty experienced in a group member 's work setting , such as , for instance , the context of a pupil 's learning difficulty .
29 The technique has been demonstrated using inorganic crystals , but organic polymers are easier to work with and much less expensive than crystals .
30 Various other studies have , however , attempted to do this ; the usual technique has been to suggest that it is a particular psychological characteristic that is inherited and which leads ‘ naturally ’ to crime .
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