Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial institutions ' separation from , and domination of , manufacturers gives yearly accounts a much greater salience than in countries where financial institutions are made more receptive to manufacturer 's requirements , and this in turn highlights the artificial distinction between operating costs and capital outlays . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , universities and equivalent institutions are becoming increasingly autonomous , working closely with the private sector , or even generating spin-off companies that may develop into important sectors in their own right , as with biotechnology . |
| 3 | However , the institutions are becoming more flexible and may consider short-term finance . |
| 4 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 5 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 6 | We can still identify objects when they are blurred , which removes the higher spatial frequencies , and most of the time moving objects are moving neither very fast nor very slowly . |
| 7 | Okay , with objects are perceived as structured coherent wholes rather than as discreet component parts . |
| 8 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 9 | Because of the way Sumitomo is incorporated , the London and Hong Kong accounts are consolidated together first , before consolidated figures for all three locations are generated . |
| 10 | Edingley are sending about four and are sending about four but er as many as like want to go . |
| 11 | Bill Lockhart and Betty Street have also achieved international fame for the quilted effects on their Texan creations , where the sewing skills are admired as much as the medley of geometric colour patterns . |
| 12 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 13 | There is probably no better example of an industry and a sector in which economic policies are causing so much damage . |
| 14 | New policies are expressed as much in ministerial statements , White Papers and circulars to the local authorities as in new statutes . |
| 15 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |
| 16 | ‘ This is endorsed by our experience in the market place where employers are using more temporary staff while assessing the strength of recovery and to give themselves greater flexibility , ’ she added . |
| 17 | And they suggested many employers are holding back bad economic news until after the general election . |
| 18 | Many TECs explain graphically that they have inadequate money and that employers are offering too few work experience places because of the recession . |
| 19 | Potential employers are lining up leading members of the ‘ Grey Guard ’ , who have dominated amateur cycling in the 1980s . |
| 20 | In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager . |
| 21 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 22 | I think that crowd behaviour has improved , the clubs are catering much better for families . |
| 23 | CASE projects are used wherever possible . |
| 24 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 25 | The fact that such consistent ‘ paradigm ’ cases are becoming increasingly rare ( this will be discussed later ) explains in part why there is no clear boundary between the ‘ classes ’ . |
| 26 | Muggers are becoming increasingly vicious — some even slash their victims before they ask for the money . |
| 27 | Ideally , there should be more comprehensive information on housing need and the supply of dwellings across all tenures ( particularly if local authorities are to take on more of an enabling role ) . |
| 28 | I heard , ‘ Well , the pennies are going down 9 , 8 , 7 so the next will be 6 . |
| 29 | Joe likes to think he has a soft heart : when selling arms to guerilla groups with whom he sympathizes , a few bombs are thrown in free . |
| 30 | Cached IDE host adaptors are becoming more popular and CIC has fitted the DC-600B cache controller with 2Mb of RAM . |