Example sentences of "be [verb] [subord] [art] [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airport 's opening has been delayed because the island is subsiding . |
| 2 | ( All leading spaces are stripped when the line is originally entered . ) |
| 3 | Results of searches are normally dispatched by first-class mail the day they are received if the application is received by first post . |
| 4 | Finally at the highest level , the limits of reason are exposed when a critique is mounted of a form of thought as such . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the meetings are happening when the shop is open . |
| 6 | Er , applications are accepted from all officers who have completed a two year period of probation and no applications are considered whilst an officer is in his probation . |
| 7 | This gave rise to the ‘ fine-tuning hypothesis ’ which suggested that learning opportunities are maximised if the adult is able to ‘ fine tune ’ her speech so that its structural complexity is always slightly in advance of that of the child . |
| 8 | Ownership would not have been transferred where the mistake is so fundamental that the transaction is void such as when there is a mistake as to the relevant identity of the recipient . |
| 9 | However , expectations of three-cornered comparisons are dashed because the work is arranged in a straightforwardly linear and chronological fashion , and the same issues are not necessarily addressed in each of the three separate discussions on the three rooms . |
| 10 | Many poor harmonizations are written because the student is trying to think of melody and harmony together , and inevitably both suffer in consequence . |
| 11 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 12 | assumptions which are made unless a contradiction is reached ; |
| 13 | She says they 're knotted as the time is almost here for the stunt . |
| 14 | In the example given below for each entry , the default settings are used when a parameter is omitted . |
| 15 | Many other GIMMS options have default settings which are used if no alternative is specified ( or if the option is not specifically included in a command file ) . |
| 16 | Like the Jews , they are exactly the sort of quick-decision , risk-accepting businessmen who are needed when a region is changing from communism to capitalism . |
| 17 | • The opening round of the British side-carcross and four-stroke championships at Rusper in Surrey , which was planned for Sunday , has been postponed because the circuit is waterlogged . |
| 18 | After a positive test result the family practitioner and health visitor are contacted when the baby is about six weeks old to develop a social profile of the family and decide how best to approach them to offer a venous blood test to confirm or refute the screening test . |
| 19 | The programme has eight options which are displayed once the programme is loaded and the librarian answers questions on the screen . |
| 20 | The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) . |
| 21 | The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) . |
| 22 | Many effluents which in other circumstances would be considered polluting — often highly polluting — are tolerated if the officer is satisfied that they will be relatively short-lived . |
| 23 | The most troublesome cases are provided where the problem is identified by pluralists as one of incomplete integration into the central value-system resulting in a state of backwardness in the outlying regions which may t e permanent . |
| 24 | Not so at the Grand National , where the horses are assembled behind a fibre rope ( call a tape ) some 70 metres long , whose ends are hoisted when the race is signalled to begin . |
| 25 | Those who are hurt when the environment is degraded , and who stand to gain the most from sound policies , are often the poor and the weak . |
| 26 | ‘ For one thing it sounds like an overlapping full-back on the Juventus transfer list , for another my kids are asking if an appointment is necessary these days or should they start the row without me ? |
| 27 | These options are inhibited if the Listing is viewed at the terminal . |
| 28 | However , it is important to keep your fellow campaigners in other groups informed of what you are doing as the likelihood is that they will read your releases and help circulate them further . |
| 29 | The typeface , size and style are set before the text is flowed , as are the margins but any or all of these can be altered at any stage . |
| 30 | All these possibilities are reduced if the program is prepared off the shop-floor by those with no direct interest in shortening or lengthening the time taken to do the job for personal reasons . |