Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the year of jubilee all slaves are freed , all debts are cancelled and the land lies fallow . |
| 17 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 18 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents , their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 19 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The idea of particular-identity , as we saw , can not be defined in terms of the conditions under which objects are re-identified as numerically the same . |
| 29 | In this brief precis of object relations theory I have started from the proposition that good objects are remembered and bad ones only hidden in the unconscious . |
| 30 | Another definition of I t is the initial value of the shares corresponding to one futures contract ( that is , S t ) , so that arithmetic returns are calculated as ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /S t ( Figlewski and Kon , 1982 ) . |