Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The freedom and autonomy guaranteed for universities by the old University Grants Committee were no more . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The median survival in the cimetidine treated group was significantly greater then in the placebo group ( 450 days compared with 316 days ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Critics claim the grant maintained initiative is losing momentum with only 309 schools , out of 24,000 , opting out in three years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As we have seen , the Primary Needs Programme was based on a list of aims rather than a comprehensive statement of policy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now any research given funding is small scale with the intention of competing with high cost fossil fuels such as diesel . |
| 21 | The government 's advisers say that this is a rare condition ‘ in which the ability of the blood to carry oxygen is decreased , characteristically causing a grey/blue tint to the skin ’ . |
| 22 | Mr Blair welcomed the investigation and claimed action to curb speed was essential . |
| 23 | An intention to treat analysis was carried out . |
| 24 | The medium in which the mind fabricates generality is language . |
| 25 | Their blood spattered jeep was found nearby . |
| 26 | Construction : this double layered offset stitched bag is constructed in such a way to prevent any cold spots . |
| 27 | Collectively these data also suggest that the main site of NSAID induced blood loss in patients on long term NSAID treatment is the small intestine . |
| 28 | It is at this crossover position that the motor 's torque producing capability is at a minimum ; at any other position more torque can be produced provided the appropriate phase is excited . |
| 29 | Briefly , 1 ml of 50–100 fold diluted bile was added to 1ml of trichloroacetic acid solution ( final concentration 10% ) and placed at 4°C for 30 minutes . |
| 30 | 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 . |