Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just one ground in the entire country does not pay for its police service , and of course that has to be Derby County football club , yet it is the Derbyshire police force that so desperately needs the money . |
| 2 | Revolving loans — personal customers under this type of arrangement can borrow a multiple of monthly payment , e.g. £30 per month may be paid to the finance house which allows up to 15 times that amount to be borrowed ( £450 ) . |
| 3 | A negative region in the correlation curve implies that u 1 and u 2 tend to be in opposite directions more than in the same direction . |
| 4 | Note that in certain cases this has to be done as a formality and does not necessarily mean that there is anything suspicious about the death . |
| 5 | In many cases this seems to be a means of tension reduction , and management must be directed partly towards developing alternative means of dealing with feelings of tension and partly to helping alleviate the ideas of worthlessness , as well as other problems , often experienced by such patients . |
| 6 | We stand by our conclusion that the effect of open ocean primary production on the drawdown of anthropogenic CO 2 appears to be extremely small in comparison with other sinks . |
| 7 | As Boxes 1 and 2 make clear , there is a great deal that needs to be done if a residential area is to be designed and operated as a safe and habitable district . |
| 8 | Although the legislation before us will provide some elements and go some way towards meeting the criticisms of Government policy outlined in the Woolf report , it is important to realise that there is still a great deal that needs to be done . |
| 9 | At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 10 | With the community care reforms now in place and growing numbers of elderly and disabled people choosing to live in their own homes this seems to be something of an anachronism . |
| 11 | Prussia was the weakest of the victorious powers in 1815 , and posed no threat to Britain , as France seemed to do when in the 1860s Napoleon III appeared to be following the ambitions of Napoleon I , and contemplating invasion . |
| 12 | Unlike the Daleks , whose ray gun effects were supplied electronically , the Mechonoids actually had working flame throwers — hence why the battle scene in Episode Six had to be shot on film in the controlled environment of Ealing studios . |
| 13 | All monetary restraints imposed by the National Bank after June 25 were to be lifted ( but in practice these continued to be blocked ) . |
| 14 | The results from Study 4 seem to be generally in accord with those from Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 15 | As Murad II happened to be in Serez at the time , de la Broquière and his companions , one of whom was Benedetto Folco da Forli , the ambassador of the Duke of Milan , set out to meet him . |
| 16 | This procedure would play a central role in the phonological-recoding phase of learning to read , described in Chapter 4 ; and one of the varieties of developmental dyslexia described in Chapter 5 appears to be a consequence of difficulties in using this procedure when learning to read . |
| 17 | The opportunities for social advance were there for all to grasp , but in practice most had to be content with their station in life . |
| 18 | The Revenue 's reference to s 84(1) , ICTA 1988 appears to be entirely irrelevant , as this section refers to ‘ gifts to educational establishments ’ . |
| 19 | However , if the old debt is left in place rather than replaced by new money , ss 238 , 239 and 245 of the Insolvency Act 1986 need to be considered . |
| 20 | However , in some applications , Type 669 continues to be the favoured emulsion , particularly for high key and high contrast subjects , where the difference is in the film 's sensitometry , specifically in the toe region of the curve . |
| 21 | However , in some applications , Type 669 continues to be the favoured emulsion , particularly for high key and high contrast subjects , where the difference is in the film 's sensitometry , specifically in the toe region of the curve . |
| 22 | Considerable hostility was expressed at the bifurcation of the profession for regulatory purposes into sole practitioners and others which question 2 appeared to be advocating . |
| 23 | On May 21 , after a four-day negotiating session , Agriculture Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) agreed on what the Financial Times of May 22 assessed to be " the most radical reform of the common agricultural policy [ CAP ] since its inception 30 years ago " . |
| 24 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 25 | Session 1990/91 proved to be the most successful yet for SCOTVEC in terms of candidate uptake . |
| 26 | Bureaucrats , members of the royal family , intellectuals of various persuasions , city dwellers and the peasantry all seemed to be pressing for radical changes in the structure of the Russian polity . |
| 27 | Ford plans for the system to operate across Europe , but before this can happen complete digital mapping of all the countries concerned needs to be completed along with guaranteed transmission success from cars . |
| 28 | At that eighteenth-century mid-afternoon table in ‘ new ’ Slains , sat Lady Errol , Charles Boyd — Lord Errol 's brother whom the visitors first mistook to be the earl — and some of the Errol children with their tutor and governess . |
| 29 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 30 | However , the value must be taken to include sums relating to state benefits which by virtue of s22 of the Social Security Act 1989 have to be paid to the Secretary of State . |