Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These social institutions are involved when actions of a sexual nature or actions of a violent character have occurred . |
| 2 | Law can not fulfil this function unless the decisions of the legal institutions are binding or non-optional . |
| 3 | Convicted criminals in penal institutions are disqualified as are persons convicted of certain corrupt or illegal practices at elections . |
| 4 | While manufacturers were perceived as the traditional users of sales promotion , now retailers and financial institutions are realising that these techniques can help build business . |
| 5 | Some believe equally that the institutions are decaying and that this is a part of some general drift towards anarchy which must be prevented at all costs . |
| 6 | Despite all the evidence which they have themselves presented to testify to the way in which liberal democratic institutions are bypassed and used to serve the interests of particular interests , these writers still believe the problem can be exorcised within the liberal democratic framework which exists . |
| 7 | Third , as the financial market becomes increasingly global and competition grows , financial institutions are finding that they need to network their resources more and more — whether that be data , staff , or computer hardware — both company-wide , country-wide and across different time zones . |
| 8 | This may seem a statement of the obvious , but examiners for universities , colleges and professional institutions are agreed that this very obvious point is not appreciated by the candidates . |
| 9 | This is further demonstrated by the decision in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026. 3.2 Business secrets There is no doubt that business secrets are recognised as constituting an interest meriting protection . |
| 10 | ‘ … as older , more unprofitable and less environmentally acceptable deep mines are closed and more efficient and profitable operations take their place , the volume of opencast mining should be allowed to decline . |
| 11 | Nevertheless the rough tone , irregular rhythms and ‘ dirty ’ intonation that most blues singers would have used are for the most part conspicuously absent in Elvis 's performance ; his tone is full , rich and well produced , his intonation is precise , stable and ‘ correct ’ , the notes are sustained and held right through , and the phrasing is legato . |
| 12 | The work includes published editions of documents and calendars of primary sources , and short descriptive notes are given where necessary . |
| 13 | Well the notes are grouped but you 're gon na add the . |
| 14 | Verbatim notes are used where you want to record everything that is being said in a lecture or copy exactly what appears in print in a book or magazine article . |
| 15 | Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence . |
| 16 | It could also well be the case that to allege that sponsorship and consultancy are permitted because they offer a lucrative source of additional income would be a contempt . |
| 17 | This is not to say that acts which we , or the Buid , would interpret as aggressive never occur , but that such acts are viewed as deviations from the ideals of Buid political culture . |
| 18 | On the year of jubilee all slaves are freed , all debts are cancelled and the land lies fallow . |
| 19 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 20 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents , their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 21 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 22 | The former interpretation highlights the role played by texts in the socio-cultural processes whereby conventions and ideologies are transmitted or subverted , while the latter points to the possibility of describing and exposing such processes by means of linguistic analysis , which is the central purpose of the papers collected in the volume . |
| 23 | Colonel Windsor took a sheet of paper from his desk and wrote out the day 's Orders : Friday , 12 November 1920 To all section commanders Special General Order Section commanders are warned that the severest disciplinary measures will be taken against any sign of looting or retaliation . |
| 24 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |
| 25 | Of course , being so intimately concerned with the notion of travel , a degree of mobility may bring more rapid promotion opportunities but unlike other organisations of a similar size , there is no pressure here to relocate — should you decline a move because you are not ready to be uprooted , you will find that your reasons are respected and your prospects unaffected . |
| 26 | With it , we are back with the problems of identity , specifically those of projection , the process by which certain aspects of the self are seen as located in some object external to the self , and of introjection , the process by which certain aspects of external objects are seen as being located within the self ; we are firmly back in the area of object-relations . |
| 27 | Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices . |
| 28 | During the rituals for initiation into each successive age-set the ‘ true ’ meanings of certain sacred objects are revealed and it transpires that the interpretations given at the previous stage were false or partial . |
| 29 | If money as abstraction engenders this cynical attitude , so the plethora of products and pleasures creates the blasé attitude in which all objects are perceived as dull and unexciting , and only a new stimulation which rises above the others can produce some , usually temporary , interest ( 1978 : 256–7 ) . |
| 30 | In the TEI scheme all such objects are regarded as the same kind of element , called here a ‘ division ’ ; though a distinction is made between divisions whose hierarchic position is regarded as inseparable from their semantics ( these are encoded as s ) . |