Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My sister thinks Garry is abroad , ’ he said , answering the question she had n't liked to ask . |
| 2 | The freedom and autonomy guaranteed for universities by the old University Grants Committee were no more . |
| 3 | Vauxhall Motors AC is one of several sports clubs that uses the land regularly . |
| 4 | In Evans v Lufthansa Airlines ( 1981 ) NLJ 1166 the Shaw v Vauxhall Motors guidance was applied to this type of application . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As we have seen , the Primary Needs Programme was based on a list of aims rather than a comprehensive statement of policy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The medium in which the mind fabricates generality is language . |
| 12 | The screenplay drops Steinbeck 's somewhat pretentious literary device of interspersing the story of the Joad family ( poor farmers trekking from the Oklahoma dust bowl to the false promise of the California orange groves ) with abstract chapters pontificating on the state of the world . |
| 13 | Is not it a fact that the principal political risk against which British industry needs insurance is the risk of a Labour Government ? |
| 14 | He says that a pond contains lot 's of wildlife , and is a valuable educational tool . |
| 15 | Labour says manufacturing is still suffering . |
| 16 | Labour says proposal is ‘ unworkable and divisive ’ Tebbit leads Tory attack on Hurd Hong Kong . |
| 17 | Labour says public are tired of feeble excuses |
| 18 | INDUSTRY SAYS PINNACLE IS ‘ TOO OPTIMISTIC ’ |
| 19 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 20 | Glenn Hoddle reckons Town are a good bet to turn the tables . |
| 21 | Under the Revenue Acts goodwill is situated locally with the business : Inland Revenue v. Muller & Co. [ 1901 ] A.C. 217 . |
| 22 | The science which Lozanov calls suggestology is concerned with the systematic study of these non-rational and/or non-conscious influences . |
| 23 | In similar vein , it is also possible to argue that some view of how improvement in practice takes place is a necessary prerequisite of any accountability procedure . |
| 24 | The speed at which digestion takes place is directly dependent upon water temperature . |
| 25 | As Henry sees his love slip away , and Rosa feels her past creep up behind her , Richard senses revenge is near . |
| 26 | DG figures imaging is an untapped high-volume market because of the prices that are being asked , the complexity of current software and the time it takes to implement . |
| 27 | If that series were up and running today , one of the widely held myths it would have to counter would be the one which holds that our ‘ generous ’ overseas aid means money is flowing from the rich world to the poor . |
| 28 | The lack of ‘ teeth ’ in UK restrictive trades practices policy is in stark contrast to both the US ( where executives of colluding companies have been gaoled for conspiracy , in addition to the levying of substantial fines on companies ) , and the EC ( where a firm can be fined up to 10 per cent of its worldwide turnover ) . |
| 29 | In respect of a particular contract , service may , with leave of the court , be effected on an agent residing or doing business within the jurisdiction on behalf of an oversea principal ; the style under which the agent does business is then immaterial , and the agent may be an individual or a body corporate ( including in this context a subsidiary company of the oversea principal ) . |
| 30 | Labour believes training is vital to the national interest if we are to produce competitive goods and services that will bring success to the new Europe . |