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

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1 A three-phase stepping motor is excited one-phase-on by its rated current of 2 A.
2 In one sense , yes ; the diet which has resulted in excessive weight gain or inability to lose weight is not the diet that you need to eat in future .
3 Briefly , drug treated promoter was incubated with E.coli RNA polymerase at 37°C in a transcription buffer ( 40 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0 , 100 mM KCl , 3 mM MgCl 2 , 10 mM DTT , 0.125 µg/ml BSA , 2 u/µl RNAse inhibitor ) to form an open ternary complex .
4 ‘ My sister thinks Garry is abroad , ’ he said , answering the question she had n't liked to ask .
5 The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department .
6 Asking the patient to recall a typical 24 hours eating pattern is often the most helpful way of assessing dietary habits .
7 The freedom and autonomy guaranteed for universities by the old University Grants Committee were no more .
8 The activating field producing resonance is the electric and magnetic field set up by an overhead power line or magnetic field producing appliance such as an electric blanket , etc .
9 The median survival in the cimetidine treated group was significantly greater then in the placebo group ( 450 days compared with 316 days ) .
10 Vauxhall Motors AC is one of several sports clubs that uses the land regularly .
11 In Evans v Lufthansa Airlines ( 1981 ) NLJ 1166 the Shaw v Vauxhall Motors guidance was applied to this type of application .
12 Second , it is virtually impossible to determine exactly how much Grampian produced whisky is exported because much of it is blended and/or bottled elsewhere .
13 Another runner to attract support was Run And Skip , who had won four races that season — including the Coral Welsh National at Chepstow — and come second in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup .
14 Critics claim the grant maintained initiative is losing momentum with only 309 schools , out of 24,000 , opting out in three years .
15 But where the newspaper story has significance is in describing , and indeed representing , the limitations of a present position , which on one level is based upon an explicitly favourable stance , yet which contains its own implicit limitations .
16 That the manganese oxide contains uranium is shown by the autoradiograph right , in which dense concentrations of alpha tracks reflect the manganese oxide 's distribution .
17 First of all it is necessary to decide the type of party whose attempts to exclude liability are regulated by the section .
18 Health experts say breast is best , and to encourage women to breastfeed the Health Education Authority has brought out a new leaflet explaining the benefits .
19 The four aims of the Primary Needs Programme were appropriately focused — on children 's needs , teaching strategies , the curriculum and links between school and home — but they were too generalized to provide a secure base-line for a substantial programme of financial investment and structural change .
20 As we have seen , the Primary Needs Programme was based on a list of aims rather than a comprehensive statement of policy .
21 The shift we commend — from a stance which teachers view as authoritarian and bureaucratic to one founded on professional partnership — is not only preferable in terms of the quality of relationships within the Authority , but is also far more likely to deliver the very improvements in professional practice for which the Primary Needs Programme was established .
22 Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete .
23 Counts needing the wherewithal to attract service were likely to cast greedy eyes on royal benefices within their counties : but in the West Frankish kingdom , the earliest evidence of such " mediatisation " of vassi dominici comes only after the death of Charles the Bald .
24 Considered to be the most important Mafia informer since Tommaso Buscetta [ see p. 33792 ] , Mannoia 's decision to provide information was said to have been prompted by the murder in April of his younger brother , himself alleged to be a Mafia killer .
25 Both times test work was stopped as soon as MoD chiefs realised what was happening .
26 Although newsprint ( the other major cost ) had doubled during 1972 — 5 , the Press Commission of the mid-1970s found labour was still the largest cost , at 40 — 50 per cent .
27 Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party .
28 Ironically , then , the trajectory which today produces the Marxist argument that poststructuralism neglects history was itself initiated by the claim that Marxism itself had been invalidated by history .
29 The society in which Dornford Yates 's chivalrous heroes ride out in their Rolls-Royces to combat evil is too near to our own to be viewed historically .
30 Now any research given funding is small scale with the intention of competing with high cost fossil fuels such as diesel .
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