Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Midland , we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services . |
| 2 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 3 | Here too the most common solutions appear to be women doctors and black doctors , albeit organised in collectives rather than on entrepreneurial , bureaucratic or capitalist lines . |
| 4 | The favourite buys overall , appear to be fashion items and electrcial goods , but it seems some shoppers will buy anything if it 's on a shelf . |
| 5 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 6 | However , the fact that 90 seats were to be reserved for workers , peasants , scientists , intellectuals , artists , students and ethnic minorities " active in the revolution " ( all of whom were expected to be NSF supporters drawn from its 145-member Council ) led to opposition accusations that the NSF meant to retain power . |
| 7 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 8 | In one incident in Alexandra , gunmen appearing to be Inkatha supporters slaughtered 15 mourners at a funeral , including seven members of the pro-ANC Congress of South African Students ( COSAS ) . |
| 9 | It also may be the first single to have celebrated the guitarist as icon and as such has been the target of many awful cover versions by people like Michael J Fox , who want to be guitar heroes . |
| 10 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 11 | Sequent is aiming the product at users that want to be Teradata owners but can not afford it . |
| 12 | ‘ The truth about chaps who want to be father figures , ’ remarked Lili , ‘ is that they actually want a mummy figure themselves . |
| 13 | But this ‘ labour market ’ has resulted in scarcities for the least desirable jobs and regions ( even despite generous wage incentives not enough people want to be coal miners in Siberia ) . |
| 14 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 15 | As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example . |
| 16 | It would also have to be decided whether direct income payments and other forms of support for farmers would be exempt or would be considered to be export subsidies . |
| 17 | there were there were riveters deemed to be shell men , or riveters deemed to be er superstructure as you say , where they worked on cases etcetera . |
| 18 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 19 | Tito had in fact already issued orders that persons suspected of being war criminals should be tried by military courts [ KPs 89 and 105 ] . |
| 20 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 21 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 22 | Do you it 's amazing when he stops at a Happy Eater to have a fry-up , that there happens to be television cameras and the world 's press there . |
| 23 | If this is so , there are important practical implications , since while there may be no legal pressures , there would appear to be market pressures on managers to focus on share price . |
| 24 | I represent a group of women wanting to have children by men prepared to be semen donors . |
| 25 | A major objective of the project is to explore how media education can benefit those training to be church ministers . |
| 26 | This research pays particular attention to the nature of the history and the history teaching to which students training to be history teachers are introduced . |
| 27 | Bald , and with an attenuated El Greco face , he looked like a victim of chemotherapy — but also of a Transylvanian vampire , for his chin and neck were covered with what seemed to be bite marks . |
| 28 | The engineering files are thus seen to be data stores containing both man-readable and machine-readable instructions for the manufacture of the specified articles . |
| 29 | Among the various routes that were agreed upon were US routes via London to the Middle East and South Asia , and through Hong Kong . |
| 30 | Recently , the giving of business gifts has declined , as employers have placed restrictions upon what their employees may receive , and the Institute of Purchasing and Supply has published a ‘ blacklist ’ of companies operating what they consider to be gift schemes over and above items of nominal value . |