Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE detective who spearheaded a campaign to provide Darlington with a child protection suite is to leave the town 's CID to head the fraud squad at Durham Police headquarters . |
| 2 | One of the Government 's aims in moving from supplementary benefit to income support was to simplify the system . |
| 3 | The Policyholders ' Protection Board is considering the implications . |
| 4 | The Policyholders ' Protection Board is considering the implications . |
| 5 | To cap a highly successful conclusion to the season — in which the Berkshire side first out-matched defending champions David Lloyd , Heston and then , in the Grand Finals , beat the top seeds Ilkley — the club No. 1 Gary Drake was named the special Grand Finals ‘ Player-of-the-Tournament ’ by Wimbledon referee Alan Mills , and drove away smiling in a brand new £15,000 Vauxhall Astra convertible . |
| 6 | While Smith fell to Hughesman in straight sets in the second string singles rubber , Gary Drake was finding the going a little tough against Queens ' rested No. 1 Steve Alger , 33-year-old Vauxhall Trophy ‘ veteran ’ and a former Bermuda No. 1 . |
| 7 | Most people old enough to be expected to pay for them out of their own pockets regard the price of games cartridges as outrageous , but Nintendo Co is raising the prices of new software titles sold in the US by roughly 20% to offset the impact of Japan 's ever-rising yen . |
| 8 | The château , together with its gardens , terraces and belvedere , recently restored by the State on the basis of eighteenth-century documents , will provide the setting for the first part of the itinerary , while a new basement building is to accommodate the second stage . |
| 9 | The purpose of the final case study was to test the viability of the package as a whole , and all the main partners were represented in the team that addressed the selected problem situation . |
| 10 | Oxfordshire could n't lose in the National Final at Nottingham on Saturday … number one seed Lizzie Jelfs from Banbury 's West End Club was playing the number two seed Claire Taylor from the Banbury West End Club … |
| 11 | The normal reaction to a launch failure or cable break is to lower the nose and regain speed , and then to pull the release twice , hard , to get rid of any remaining cable . |
| 12 | As a result of these thefts the S & T department are reviewing the issue of public access to Signal boxes at MRC . |
| 13 | The first step in processing the typesetting tape was to find the mapping between the typesetting codes and the special characters . |
| 14 | He was at Bristol University in England where the physics department was leading the world in the study of cosmic rays , and whose head , Cecil Powell , was about to win the Nobel Prize for his role in this . |
| 15 | Their assigned role is best exemplified by the fact that in the 1992 World Cup in Australia , the bowling side was afforded the advantage of two white new balls . |
| 16 | Tetley Tea is sponsoring the Henry Cooper Golf Classic at Hanbury Manor , Hertfordshire , as the climax to its £500,000 appeal for the Variety Club , famous for helping needy children . |
| 17 | Mr Milne claimed : ‘ The action taken by the Harbour Board is to increase the cost for importers using the harbour by 600 per cent . |
| 18 | The main objective of the Serious Defect Signal Aid trial was to identify the organisational problems of developing and integrating expert systems with a secondary objective of producing a demonstrator to persuade higher management to fund AI more extensively . |
| 19 | One of the tasks of this programme component is to strengthen the international debate and put NWICO issues , once again , on the public agenda . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , NEC Corp is readying the low-power VRX R4000 for introduction later this month : priced at around $90 in volume quantities , it is aimed at portable PCs running NT . |
| 21 | The Mt Laurel , New Jersey Okidata arm of Oki Electric Industry Co is slashing the US price of its OL400 light-emitting diode page printer : it is now $800 for a 27% reduction . |
| 22 | [ T ] he purpose of the United States base was to monitor the movements of Soviet submarines ; in the event of hostilities breaking out , the base would be the subject of a nuclear strike , with resulting devastation in the area , including to the property of the applicant , her friends and neighbours . |
| 23 | Hankin signalled the start of that new youth policy by leaving out defender Kevan Smith Andy Toman was given the responsibility of captaining the side and pairing youngsters Sunley and Gregan at the centre of defence . |
| 24 | One approach to tension reduction is to teach the patient methods of self-relaxation . |
| 25 | And I was able to do this , so that half the fee was being paid for a three-piece suite going , some boxes , to another address , and then this bedroom suite was taking the other half of the charge back . |
| 26 | Very severe weight loss is called the HIV wasting syndrome ( also known as ‘ slim disease ’ in Africa ) and is severe enough to be included as a form of AIDS in revised definitions of that syndrome . |
| 27 | The principal emphasis of this research programme is to examine the attitudes of the population to these changes , with special reference to work , to look at the adaptation of the population to their changed employment environment , and to consider the impact of these changes on households , family and community relations . |
| 28 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 29 | The value of the practice stroke is to rehearse the distance of the putt . |
| 30 | In the 1967 Paper , investment appraisal was to follow the net present value method , with a test discount rate ( TDR ) set first at 8 per cent , later at 10 per cent . |