Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , institutions are organized social groups embodying social roles , relations , processes , norms and instruments or complexes of cultural patterns , norms and procedures , which satisfy some important social interest ( e.g. educational , economic , religious , etc ) . |
| 2 | The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision . |
| 3 | The institutions are becoming superfluous . |
| 4 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 5 | Only those manufacturing steps that involve trade secrets are kept in-house . |
| 6 | Beginners are given intensive language teaching , leading rapidly to the reading of original texts , and are able , on successful completion of the course , to join former 1B students in the second-year class . |
| 7 | Course modules in Crop Production Systems and Crop Protection are considered essential . |
| 8 | It would , nonetheless , have saved us millions of pounds in tax relief had the building been declared listed . ’ |
| 9 | Aerosmith are calling this their Get to Grip tour . |
| 10 | The key stages of preparation are to become familiar with all the facts as recorded in key documents , for example correspondence , meeting records , site measurements , wage sheets and plant invoices try to agree the facts with the engineer and/or contractor check the claim is in order with respect to time and/or documentation and that it complies with the contract |
| 11 | Also of interest is computer use during consultations , where patient notes are made available and up-dated using a desk-top terminal . |
| 12 | SCOTTISH pound notes are saving hard-up guests a fortune at Asian weddings . |
| 13 | Also , no explanation is offered as to how society defines criminal behaviour , why some acts are made illegal and others not . |
| 14 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 15 | More and more housewives are using such a product . |
| 16 | What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ? |
| 17 | no , but some sort of place , well when , when you look at these pictures now , the satellites been going twelve months , still going through |
| 18 | ST HELENS are taking legal advice after the Rugby League turned down their compensation plea for injured Test centre Paul Loughlin . |
| 19 | Course modules in Land Use/Environmental Interactions and Nutrient Cycles : Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions are considered essential . |
| 20 | In the kind of discriminating attention it demands , grid method becomes , and reveals , a part of that articulation process described by Lind in which the very structure and texture of aesthetic objects are made intelligible . |
| 21 | The main objects are to remove all construction materials from the beach area and to disperse boulders where these formed the access road along the beach . |
| 22 | All prisoners are made aware of these rights . |
| 23 | All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full . |
| 24 | Prisoners are given some choice as to which prison they go to ; what work they do ; what training or education courses they undertake . |
| 25 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 26 | No spiritual support was allowed to the isolated children , even though , as one parent bitterly commented , ‘ even prisoners are allowed this ’ . |
| 27 | Nowadays 100 million cups of Ovaltine are drunk each year . |
| 28 | What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the Schengen Treaty indicates matters on which the signatory states are to take common initiatives at the Community level , such as VAT harmonization , and it requires the development of common policies by its participants in areas such as visas for citizens of non-Member States of the EC — a matter which would be brought expressly into Community competence by the Maastricht Treaty under Article 100c , providing that ‘ the Council , acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament , shall determine the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States ’ . |
| 30 | While some states are enacting certain parts of the convention verbatim , others are interpreting it and adapting it to suit particular national interests and policies . |