Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 2 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 3 | The one enthroned by a building has been thought Priam in Troy , and if so there are two subjects : Gigantomachy ( Battle of Gods and Giants ) and Iliupersis ( Sack of Troy ) . |
| 4 | At Sandown , Martin Pipe 's Valfinet has been installed evens favourite for the William Hill Handicap Hurdle , while Uncle Ernie , a last fence faller at Huntingdon a week ago , will bid for compensation in the Mitsubishi Shogun Tingle Creek Trophy . |
| 5 | In an attempt to overcome the criticisms that its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking technology is too proprietary , IBM Corp has been making moves to increase its appeal . |
| 6 | Branfoot has been inviting Holland manager Dick Advocaat to run the rule over Chelsea reject Monkou all season but Shearer , for one , will be happy if the Dutch continue to ignore him . |
| 7 | STEPHEN Brooks has been appointed brand manager for Johnson Brothers from 1 January . |
| 8 | Most recently , the idea of joint RFT technology requests has been winning friends . |
| 9 | Pyramid Technology Corp has picked executive vice-president , Ed Scott , and former US sales vice-president , Robert Buhl to team up to develop and manage the company 's technology and strategic partnerships with vendors and integrators worldwide : the move is part of the firm 's four-month-old Open Data Center strategy ; Buhl has been named vice-president , strategic partners , reporting to Scott ; Pyramid 's chairman , Richard Lussier , will assume management of direct sales organisation and marketing oversight will fall to chief operating officer John Chen ; Mitchell Mandich , formerly Tandem Computers Inc 's western region sales director , is vice-president for the Americas responsible for sales in the western hemisphere and reporting to Richard Lussier . |
| 10 | The final insult has been moving Coronation Street forward half an hour to show European Cup games . |
| 11 | ‘ Jim has been patching players up to keep them going from week to week . |
| 12 | ‘ The prince has been forging contacts , and speaking to industrialists and politicians to find ways of helping conserve the city . |
| 13 | Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 14 | Morland has been brewing beers in Oxfordshire since 1711 , making it the second oldest brewery in the country . |
| 15 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Elizabeth Devlin has been elected chairman and Mrs Denise Drumm , vice-chairman . |
| 17 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 18 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 19 | NIGEL LAWSON has been testing Ivory & Sime 's sense of humour . |
| 20 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 21 | ACET 's response has been to provide clients with special tubes for the disposal of dirty needles and syringes or help them if they wish to cease injecting . |
| 22 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 23 | GEORGE Duffield has been partnering winners for more than 25 years . |
| 24 | Philippe Picard has been appointed director of the new division . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co has been holding talks with Steve Jobs ' NeXT Inc about licensing the NeXTstep environment , according to a report last week in the New York Times . |
| 26 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 27 | One of the country 's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom … testing school dinners . |
| 28 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 29 | In Europe , Dow Corning has a basic plant at Barry in South Wales to which ICI has been supplying methanol from Billingham since 1955 . |
| 30 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |