Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income where tax has been deducted at source and on which you will therefore not be required to pay further tax is as follows : |
| 2 | In much of the West where productivity has been high and population increases relatively small — in some countries zero — the problem confronting agriculture has been how to control expensive surpluses . |
| 3 | I have to admit to being a bit of a philistine where flower arranging is concerned . |
| 4 | The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence . |
| 5 | Remember it is illegal for anyone to use a metal detector on a scheduled ancient monument unless permission has been obtained from the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 6 | Governments are attempting , for the first time , to regulate a major new industry before damage has been caused to people or the environment . |
| 7 | One previous case of bilateral ureteric obstruction after pancreatitis has been reported and it has also been described in an alcoholic patient with a large pseudocyst . |
| 8 | The critic as advocate has been fortunate in twentieth-century France , where a climate of culture has brought art and literature together ; also art and philosophy , in the case of Jean-Paul Sartre 's advocacy of Giacometti , in whose emaciated figure sculptures the philosopher saw a metaphor of human struggle , even , as he wrote in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1948 , ‘ the fleshless martyrs of Buchenwald ’ . |
| 9 | Rehydration with oral rehydration solutions ( ORS ) containing monomeric glucose as substrate has been considered the most important therapeutic breakthrough of this century . |
| 10 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 11 | Infidelity had become freshly dangerous , potentially much more lethal to a marriage than adultery had been previously . |
| 12 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 13 | Firemen were already on their way to the scene because smoke had been reported billowing from the sub-station . |
| 14 | Tim and Pistol were in a pub when Pistol had been made angry by the men in the pub . |
| 15 | ( c ) Duties following cancellation Where notice has been given , in the case of hire purchase or conditional sale transactions , s72 generally places upon the debtor a legal duty to redeliver the goods subject to a lien for any part exchange goods tendered by him ( s73(5) ) . |
| 16 | Archaeologists and historians studying the period since writing has been in use — the last few thousand years — examine different types of evidence , although they overlap at many points . |
| 17 | The Butlin version of the holiday camp prospered in a climate of campaigning for holidays with pay and in a period before packaging had been fully developed as the major way of selling holidays and travel . |
| 18 | If , during the three-month period after notice has been given by the tenant , the landlord lodges an objection to the proposed alterations , the tenant may apply to the County Court or High Court , depending on the value of the property , for a certificate authorizing the alterations . |
| 19 | I 've lost my job when money 's been tight , regardless of the good work I did and the commitment I showed . |
| 20 | His period as Headmaster had been , to say the least , exciting . |
| 21 | Steadily , quietly , till we stumble on their existence with shocked surprise , pit after pit has been sunk and worked in the beautiful stretch of country which covers the eastern half of the county of Nottingham . |
| 22 | The agreement became possible when Spain lifted its veto after agreement had been reached on setting up a fund to help the Community 's poorer members to pay for environmental protection measures . |
| 23 | Rothermere was in favour of Beaverbrook himself , and Hailsham and Robert Horne ( a surprising revival as lie had been out of office since the Coalition ) also emerged as occasional possibilities ; pace 1923 , no one seemed inclined to disqualify peers . |
| 24 | Yanayev 's nomination as Vice-President had been forced through by Gorbachev at the Congress of People 's Deputies on Dec. 27 , 1990 [ see p. 37904 ] . |
| 25 | To my mind , evidence of conflict already exists : the deafening silence from Moorgate Place on Caparo is an example where self-interest has been allowed to be paramount : the decision suits the practising firms ( as their legal liability is narrowly defined ) , notwithstanding that in the public interest , would-be investors , existing individual shareholders and creditors who lose because they have relied on audited accounts which subsequently turn out to be defective , should , on any basis of equity , have recourse to those parties who are responsible , whether management or auditors . |
| 26 | We carefully considered that issue , and I agree that many parents would have been reluctant to allow their children to serve with the armed forces at such a young age if homosexuality had been allowed . |
| 27 | As already stated , the reason for the retention is the exquisite pain associated with passing urine , and the best way of solving the problem is to apply some local anaesthetic ointment until the vulva and external genitalia are completely numb and then sit the patient in a warm bath until urine has been passed . |
| 28 | A mineral undertaker can not however , be required to put the land to any specific use after extraction has been completed , but where practicable , he can be required to leave it in a condition comparable to that in which he found it . |
| 29 | A full week after Holly had been delivered to Camp 3 , Captain Yuri Rudakov issued the instruction that the new prisoner was to be brought to his office . |
| 30 | The ending of wartime controls over the economy when peace came was not a popular cry , whatever the Conservative Party and business interests may have thought . |