Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 2 | Once the technique has been perfected there 'll be no need to hide the truth . ’ |
| 3 | Where mucosal protection has been shown it does not correlate well with potency of inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase and could be due to another property such as oxygen radical scavenging . |
| 4 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 5 | Once the text has been analysed it can be edited and spell-checked , as required , and then exported to Word , Word for Windows , WordPerfect and WordStar word processors . |
| 6 | Once the tagged text has been placed it is possible to alter the tag 's definition in the stylesheet and have all the occurrences of that tag change . |
| 7 | When the text has been transcribed you work through it in order to discover and learn any new words or useful idioms . |
| 8 | Mike Rowbottom has been sampling it . |
| 9 | Mike Rowbottom has been tracing his lineage |
| 10 | Once a direction has been made it is the responsibility of the person conducting the examination or assessment to ensure that a child of sufficient understanding does in fact consent . |
| 11 | A method of dealing with compound lexical forms has been developed which combines with the lexicon and allows the recognition of idiomatic phrases within the input . |
| 12 | Come , now , and see how I have lodged her , and that no harm or insult has been offered her . |
| 13 | Rather than eliminate any further jobs on top of the 1,000 that the company has budgeted to shed this year , IBM UK Ltd chief executive Nick Temple is expected to ask senior staffers to bear some of the pain and accept pay reductions — and it could happen : Temple has been telling anyone who will listen that if IBM UK makes a penny profit this year , it will be the most amazing turnround in corporate history . |
| 14 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 15 | Once a certificate has been issued there are wide powers vested in the Area Director to amend it . |
| 16 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 17 | A response has been made which is not ‘ Y ’ ( Yes ) or ‘ N ’ ( No ) as expected . |
| 18 | A response has been made which is not ‘ Y ’ ( Yes ) or ‘ N ’ ( No ) as expected . |
| 19 | A response has been made which is not ‘ P ’ ( Primary ) , ‘ S ’ ( Secondary ) or ‘ B ’ ( Both ) as expected . |
| 20 | A response has been made which is not ‘ G' ( Grant ) or ‘ C' ( Cancel ) as expected . |
| 21 | A response has been made which is not ‘ A' ( All ) , ‘ O ’ ( Outstanding ) , ‘ R ’ ( Replied ) or ‘ C ’ ( Closed ) as expected . |
| 22 | When some idea of the framework of objectives , aspirations and activities has been obtained it may be useful to compile a questionnaire , into which answers may be inserted , either by the leader or by the researcher . |
| 23 | A LABOUR front-bencher has been told he can not marry his bride in the House of Commons crypt because they are both Roman Catholic . |
| 24 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 25 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 26 | The only responsibility the writer has is to get his words right and that takes care of everything else that the novel , or short story is capable of . |
| 27 | Hauser has been told he can negotiate his own move away from the second division club . |
| 28 | My mum has been minding him since he was seven months old , he is now six . |
| 29 | Unlucky 17-year-old Simon Sterritt from Newry has been told he will never sit behind the wheel of the vehicle — because he was too young to enter the competition in the first place . |
| 30 | A new test for TB has been devised which could save the lives of badgers . |