Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] [art] [noun sg] is " in BNC.

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1 The airport 's opening has been delayed because the island is subsiding .
2 All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist , giving the blend its distinctive characteristics .
3 If kin are recognized but no contact is maintained , then clearly support is not being given .
4 No redundancies are foreseen and a relocation is not currently intended .
5 More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment .
6 ( All leading spaces are stripped when the line is originally entered . )
7 A Science Group staff meeting has been arranged and the date is to be announced shortly [ September ‘ ] .
8 Results of searches are normally dispatched by first-class mail the day they are received if the application is received by first post .
9 Some of the most important features of the remedies are highlighted and the information is presented in an easy-to-use tabular form .
10 Finally at the highest level , the limits of reason are exposed when a critique is mounted of a form of thought as such .
11 Stage : All consultations have been completed and the plan is likely to be adopted later this year .
12 Some two-thirds of the contract has been completed and the MoD is keen to see production continue .
13 The data collection has been completed and the material is , at the moment , being analysed .
14 Owner of a Cheltenham haulage firm , Ralph Davis , says his drivers are trapped and the situation is nasty .
15 Some ethnic foods have been included but the book is week on snack foods which now form a common part of our diet .
16 A year and several headaches later — like the waiting list that developed rapidly for places for the under twos — the number of children has increased to 15 ( total capacity 30 ) , more are expected and the nursery is operating to plan .
17 The layers are repaired and the skin is sutured .
18 Hops are added and the mixture is boiled .
19 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 .
20 Cleaned fittings , after disinfection , are re-assembled and the whole is left to air dry for a short period before the empty cabinet is brought down to working temperature and re-filled .
21 It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention .
22 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 .
23 A catalogue with a celebratory essay by Judith Goldman has been prepared and the show is on view from 9 January until 6 February .
24 Even when this has been done and the test is in progress , there should be sufficient flexibility to modify the test plan ( e.g. , by changing examination schedules ) in the light of information that becomes available as the test progresses .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species .
28 It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps .
29 . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history .
30 It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people .
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