Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [be] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intensity of the band obtained when a RJ2.2.5 extract was used was much higher than that observed for Raji extracts , provided that the same protein concentrations were used ; interestingly AR exhibited a binding activity lower than RJ.2.5 and higher than Raji . |
| 2 | Great interest is shown in the activities and scenes depicted : the skill and panache with which cat 's cradle is demonstrated is commented on , the speed and technique of the weavers astounds , the making of crayfish pots and operation of eel weirs is studied intently . |
| 3 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 4 | Also , Raskolnikov 's narrative was to have been ‘ A Confession ’ — Dostoevsky 's own title — and this would n't work either . |
| 5 | The reading-list to which Leonard 's mind was directed was broad and enticing . |
| 6 | In the old days before the distracting influences of radio and television , the fixed routine of the adult inhabitants after the day 's work was done was to settle down for an evening 's knitting , a craft both men and women practised assiduously , on the outside galleries in summer and by candlelight in front of a peat fire in winter . |
| 7 | Wednesday night 's meeting was to have been the first in Arbroath as part of the consultative exercise the board must carry out before implementing changes . |
| 8 | Osborne broke down and confessed to the killing when a picture of the curtains in which Dean 's body was wrapped was flashed on TV . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Wiltshire Police say claims by the dead woman 's mother , Elsie Titcombe , that she reported her daughter missing 4 days before her daughter 's body was found are still being investigated . |
| 10 | The place where Aldhelm 's body was found is within close woodland , untended , on a narrow path , where the only light would come from the open sky above the track . |
| 11 | Amongst the conditions to which the school 's attention is drawn are : |
| 12 | The requirement that the consignor 's name be stated was only half of the document of title equation . |
| 13 | Among the qualities for which Bashó0 's haiku are revered are ‘ a desire to use every instant to the uttermost ; an appreciation of this even in natural objects ; a feeling that nothing is alone , nothing unimportant ; a wide sympathy ; and an acute awareness of relationships of all kinds , including that of one sense to another . ’ |
| 14 | Only those ideas which can be traced through many different formulations on depression in the seventy years since Freud 's book was published are touched upon here . |
| 15 | The Russian Supreme Soviet decided on Feb. 6 ( the date by which the final report on Crimea 's status was to have been completed ) to set up a commission , with Foreign Affairs Ministry participation , " to study all the circumstances of the legal grounds of the decision taken in 1954 " . |
| 16 | This year 's final was to have been a duel between the two most successful of all World Cup horses , Milton and Canadian Ian Millar 's Big Ben , who won the final in 1988 and 1989 . |
| 17 | In many districts the normal response when one 's animal was missing was to visit a person well known to have connections with local thieves , and give him a chew of betel , a wad of tobacco , and five rupees . |
| 18 | In particular , the speed with which a man 's face is recognised is related to the degree to which information about his appearance , personality and biographical details is available to the observer . |
| 19 | In the middle of last century the average age at which a woman 's family was completed was 39 ; it is now the late 20s ( Finch 1989 ) . |