Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you colour your hair because greys are growing faster than you can pull them out , you 'll be pleased to know that Poly Color has been improved . |
| 32 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 33 | When the Diet reconvened on Jan. 24 , the Prime Minister sought to fend off charges that Kyowa money had been used by Abe to assist Miyazawa 's campaign for the LDP leadership in October 1991 [ see p. 38558 ] . |
| 34 | Although part performance has been abolished , it is expected that equity will continue to intervene : |
| 35 | I 'm beginning to think that car park has been nothing but trouble since it was built . ’ |
| 36 | Over the past year so much time and energy has been devoted to considering the implications of the new audit regulatory regime that investment business has been given scant attention by commentators and the profession alike . |
| 37 | And , speaking of England : ‘ I am surpised that Neil Back has been omitted from the squad because he is an outstanding player . |
| 38 | Although Aith lifeboat had been launched it would take her some time to reach the island , so Mr Williamson spoke by radio to four fishing vessels at the scene . |
| 39 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 40 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 41 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |
| 42 | The new release provides header integrity checking , on-line help for applications development , and the association claims that error handling has been improved . |
| 43 | What riled Amiss more than the rottenness of the food were the cries of appreciation from Alf and Bert at the fact that strawberry jam had been provided . |
| 44 | It should be noted also that Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy has been applied beyond psychiatric disorders to the problems of offenders and to people with learning difficulties . |
| 45 | This weakness has been largely du , they suggest , to the fact that readability research has been based on an impoverished psychology of reading . |
| 46 | Our intention is to demonstrate that work organization has been a central strand of each of the otherwise contrasting change strategies ; namely , the evolutionary development of Pilkingtons , the total process perspective of RX , and Employee Involvement with Ford . |
| 47 | Paul Trowbridge , UK marketing manager with SynOptics Communications Inc , said that he can understand Proteon 's viewpoint , and believes that APPI development has been driven by the financing questions surrounding APPN . |
| 48 | Now that fuel injection has been added , there 's urgent acceleration on tap , too . |
| 49 | Peter Wilby in the Independent concluded that antiracist education had been ‘ a disaster ’ . |
| 50 | It 's pretty obvious that Kurt Cobain has been running on reserve tanks for most of this Euro-jaunt . |
| 51 | It is in this general climate that community policing has been reintroduced in recent years in many forces in Great Britain with the expressed intention of improving both crime prevention and relations between the police and the community ( cf. Gordon 1987 ) . |
| 52 | Mr Alan Rawley QC , for Mother Catherine , 82 , the Mother Superior of the monastery , said that evidence supplied by the Ministry yesterday morning revealed that salmonella typhimurium had been isolated from a ‘ bulked up ’ sample of the intestines of five of the chickens . |
| 53 | Gregory analysed all the planning applications in the area between 1957 and 1966 , and showed that development permission had been refused for 83 per cent of the 3,000 ha for which applications had been made . |
| 54 | — Although anorexia nervosa has been thought of as developing in the context of a ‘ perfect childhood ’ , there is some evidence that psychological trauma may predispose to the disorder . |
| 55 | It had crossed the border into Belgium before police could seal the town ; at a press conference there were denials that border security had been lax . |
| 56 | All this is important because of the argument that shock therapy has been a mistake . |
| 57 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 58 | But the Banking , Insurance and Finance Union claimed yesterday that polling day had been selected to announce details of the first cuts to minimise public attention . |
| 59 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 60 | The Indian authorities on Nov. 22 and 28 denied that US pressure had been brought to bear , maintaining that negotiations for the sale of a reactor were at a preliminary stage and would not contravene international law . |