Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [vb pp] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 7 ) Once a bona fide offer has been made or is believed to be imminent , the board of the target company must not take any action which would frustrate that offer or deny shareholders an opportunity to decide on its merits , unless the action is approved by the shareholders in general meeting . |
| 2 | I have outlined a handful of sexual difference theories wherein homosexuality is associated with , or is seen to be expressive of : ( 1 ) the true , negative , nature of patriarchy , ( 2 ) a negation of what is truly vital and creative in ( heterosexual ) desire , ( 3 ) anti-Semitism , totalitarianism , and fascism , ( 4 ) an obliteration of the autonomy of the other , ( 5 ) anal negativity , solipsism , and sterility and de-creation , ( 6 ) the undifferentiation of a dying culture , ( 7 ) a cowardly refusal of homosocial rivalry , ( 8 ) the definitive expression of homosocial rivalry . |
| 3 | How does one go about luring people away from a profession that is said to be non-existent ? |
| 4 | At no point on its way to Woodstock is it followed by a boundary that is known to be ancient . |
| 5 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 6 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 7 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 8 | Currently , the Navy runs half its school at Aldershot and the other half at Devonport and is believed to be keen , for financial reasons if nothing else , to re-locate on to one site . |
| 9 | As a general rule a restrictive covenant restricts competition and is presumed to be void and unenforceable because such restrictions are contrary to public policy . |
| 10 | ‘ Chronicle is an up-and-coming house , and is seen to be different , which is good for us , ’ he said . |
| 11 | She 's attractive , successful and is engaged to be married . |
| 12 | He lives in Kilmarnock and is engaged to be married next year . |
| 13 | She moved to Scotland in May and is engaged to be married . |
| 14 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 15 | Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City … |
| 16 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 17 | Hence , if the working fluid contains an indicator and is titrated to be close to the end-point of that indicator , the application of a voltage between a fine wire and some other point in the flow can produce a local colour change at the wire . |
| 18 | The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install . |
| 19 | The Intel version shares the capabilities of the portable source Unix version and is said to be easy to install . |
| 20 | ‘ Playground ’ was written specifically for the movie In A League Of Their Own starring Geena Davis , Tom Hanks and Madonna which premieres in the UK in September , and is said to be unrepresentative of the material featured on the ‘ Erotica ’ LP . |
| 21 | Little Penny is now safe in the care of her grandparents , who live in Wilton , near Redcar , and is said to be fine . |
| 22 | ONC+ has new naming , filing , distributed application and security services , and is claimed to be backward-compatible with existing ONC implementations . |
| 23 | This letter is required where the firm is leading an agreed public offer ( i.e. subject to the Takeover Code ) and is required to be satisfied that our client is able to implement the offer |
| 24 | As I expect you know , APRS was established some sixty years ago , and is respected for being apolitical , consistent , credible and above all objective . |
| 25 | The machine incorporates new , more integrated and lower cost technology into the same symmetric multiprocessing architecture as the Series 400 and is designed to be cost-effective for between 40 and 400 active users . |
| 26 | HP SharePlex/iX will be sold through Hewlett-Packard and is expected to be orderable on May 1 . |
| 27 | Fortunately , telecommunication technology is developing almost as fast as silicon chip technology and is expected to be able to meet the demands that will be made on it by computers and microelectronics over the next few years . |
| 28 | Each sub-unit is assumed to behave like an entropy spring and is expected to be large enough to realize a Gaussian distribution of segments ( i.e.> 50 carbon atoms ) . |
| 29 | If an application is processed quickly and is found to be bogus , the person concerned is sent back to his country of origin . |
| 30 | When the Validation program has been run and the output in VALIFY.TXT and/or VALIDATE.MOD or VALIFY.CRC has been checked and is found to be satisfactory , the LIFESPAN system may be restarted . |