Example sentences of "action [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restrictions on that country 's course of action are therefore less powerful than in the case of the Japanese example above , and its future behaviour is less suited to accurate prediction . |
| 2 | It is not a region where costly Plans of Action are going to work . |
| 3 | The chief beneficiaries of affirmative action are university students and black businessmen , who are the blacks most likely to succeed anyway . |
| 4 | It will compel B to let C make the legal claim in his name ; in the last resort it might allow C to take proceedings in Equity in his own name against A. Thus it came to be said that ‘ in Equity debts and choses in action are assignable ’ . |
| 5 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 6 | Friends who have seen our 60-minute plot in action are amazed that it really is working . |
| 7 | Kant held , I believe , that a person is acting autonomously when the principles of his action are chosen by him as the most adequate possible expression of his nature as a free and equal rational being . |
| 8 | Trigger sprayers : These hand sprayers easily recognisable by their trigger pump action are known widely to gardeners . |
| 9 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 10 | In order to achieve this the following forms of legal action are available : |
| 11 | It is on these final percepts that judgements and consequent action are based . |
| 12 | The stimuli that trigger this action are usually moving objects that hang down from above , or toys that are thrown to the kittens by their owners . |
| 13 | For it does seem , in the final decade of the second millennium , that hopes of political action are fading . |
| 14 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
| 15 | Heads designed with a fluid-type action are the smoothest of all . |
| 16 | It becomes possible to envisage a sequence of shots in which real pieces of connected action are linked together by shots which are included to fill in the continuity gaps . |
| 17 | Cuts on action are those which carry an action over from one shot to the next , and they constitute an important element in film making . |
| 18 | The areas ripe for action are legion : working to reduce the costs of energy to industry 's intensive users by gaining access for them to European supply grids , and by lobbying other European governments to withdraw subsidies from their competitors in other countries ; pressing for the even enforcement of regulations across all European Community countries ; or even in assisting British companies to win major contracts in countries with a less ‘ hands-off ’ approach to industry . |
| 19 | Setting a strategy and putting it into action are challenges that can overwhelm even the most effective managers . |
| 20 | But labour has consequences for consciousness in that rules for instrumental action are developed which enable the subject to have a measure of control over nature through the use of tools . |
| 21 | The validity claims involved in the form of communicative action are given a ‘ quasi-transcendental ’ status because they are present in communication even if obscured by distortion : |
| 22 | Indonesian workers who try to improve their conditions through collective action are blacklisted and severely intimidated . |
| 23 | That is , descriptions of perception and action are assumed to be unproblematic which in fact are deeply puzzling . |
| 24 | There are questions of intention , where this concerns what thoughts produce the action , and what features of the action are , relative to that thought , accidental . |
| 25 | This is one good reason why every State should publish all the accident reports it raises — some other airline quite remote from the one in question may avoid a similar disaster if the details of an accident and the necessary corrective action are made available to all who care to take the trouble to read about them . |
| 26 | Many of the changes in community care have massive and largely unrecognised implications for women , both as workers and service users , and vigilance and action are needed to ensure oppression is not perpetuated . |
| 27 | Yet principles for action are within Mr Clinton 's grasp ; Mr Christopher 's February list is as valid as ever . |
| 28 | Two other matched pairs in which the Thou dominates as a focus of shameful action are 57 and 58 , 92 and 93 . |
| 29 | But it appears to imply that we are all equally disposed to crime all the time ; there are no individual differences in motivation ; variations in individual criminal action are solely accounted for by variations in the constellations of incentives and disincentives that apply in each case . |
| 30 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |