Example sentences of "[vb pp] [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 | And national guidance does contain some fairly specific indicators of what is expected to be structure plans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tito had in fact already issued orders that persons suspected of being war criminals should be tried by military courts [ KPs 89 and 105 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 13 | I represent a group of women wanting to have children by men prepared to be semen donors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Among the various routes that were agreed upon were US routes via London to the Middle East and South Asia , and through Hong Kong . |
| 16 | The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed . |
| 17 | This section provides a brief overview of those social abilities which are thought to be development precursors to the emergence of spoken language . |
| 18 | The three men , two of whom were subsequently found to have been carrying replica guns , were not thought to be IRA members but had known records of delinquency . |
| 19 | Sceptics may be willing to concede on bees and lighthouses — and on many other examples hitherto thought to be market failures — but the case of clean air remains awkward . |
| 20 | Two visitors to our recent Cellulite Roadshow , Nicholle Wicks and Janine Beddelem , have agreed to be guinea pigs and have already lost pounds . |
| 21 | By using chromatofocusing techniques and enzyme assays , the enzymes involved in the biocontrol action of Trichoderma have been shown to be chitinases. glucanases and proteases . |
| 22 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 24 | The system set up by the National Insurance Act 1911 was continued under the subsequent amending legislation , but the benefits dealt with were insurance benefits and provided no help for the uninsured . |
| 25 | A further 19 per cent of this sample were judged to be borderline cases . |
| 26 | A growing number of companies are already publicly known to be distress sellers of property . |
| 27 | While a higher proportion of temporary workers than of the total labour force were found to be women workers ( 6 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) , temporary workers were also ‘ considerably younger ’ than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of the former are still teenagers . |
| 28 | What excited many of those who were following leys was the realization that the legends were about the very same sites which Watkins had found to be ley markers . |
| 29 | These proved to be Stenurus globicephalae , and they were also present in much greater numbers in the pterygoid air sinuses close to the middle ear cavity ( see Figure ) . |
| 30 | The factory 's main product is intended to be peat briquettes and charcoal for barbecue fuel . |