Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very disappointed Cray Research Inc has been told by the US Department of Energy that the $72m joint venture on developing software for the forthcoming T3D massively parallel processor , agreed by the outgoing Bush administration late last year ( CI No 2,041 ) , is not going ahead after all . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the object of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 had been to simplify the requirements for the execution and witnessing of a will ; that the complementary requirements , of a signature and of an intention that the signature should give effect to the will , demanded a practical approach ; that a written name , not being a normal signature , was capable of being a signature for the purposes of section 9 ; but that where a testamentary document was signed before the dispositive provisions had been written , affirmative evidence was necessary to show that the testator had intended the signature to give effect to the provisions ; that by writing his name and the dispositive provisions in one single operation the deceased had provided such evidence ; and that , accordingly , the will had been duly executed ; but that , on the evidence , the deputy judge had been entitled to conclude that the onus on the defendants of establishing the testamentary capacity of the deceased had not been discharged ( post , pp. 588B–H , 589B–F , 592A–C ) . |
| 3 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 4 | Dispute may rage as to the effectiveness of this or that particular reform , but US policy 1945–52 has been a major arbiter of two fundamental axes of postwar development — the integration of Japan , economically and politically , into the Western capitalist camp and the extraordinary growth of the Japanese economy . |
| 5 | In the 12 years since the Acheson report much has been learnt about how to provide improved primary care in Britain 's inner cities . |
| 6 | By Thursday afternoon this had been , to use a typical Whitehall term of understatement , finessed . |
| 7 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc had been in discussions with Novell Inc for a NetWare client for its Open Desktop products — see front page — but those talks are more or less canned now that SCO thinks it 'll be able to get the same stuff through COSE . |
| 8 | Long-time open systems advocate , Bernard Hulme , former vice-president of worldwide marketing — more lately director of vertical marketing programmes in Europe — for Santa Cruz Operation Inc has been appointed vice-president , field operations , Europe , Middle East and Africa at the Unix software firm . |
| 9 | Fife College of Technology , Glenrothes College and Hughes Microelectronics Ltd have been working to credit employees with HN Units leading to the HNC in Management and the HNC/D in Organisational Administration using APL . |
| 10 | It was an honest mistake and one that all of the current Leeds back four have been repeating frequently since then — however if I ever see Bredan ‘ F***k**g ’ Gormless I 'll kick his head in ( NOT ! ) . |
| 11 | During this time , the Central Wales Railway proper had been incorporated by an Act of August 1859 , to build a single line of track from Knighton to Llandrindod . |