Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Not all the items have yet been catalogued and work is in progress on this but much of the Witt material is in handlist form and other material can be found in the catalogues of previous Courtauld exhibitions .
2 Wind the Dodge right out to the 6500rpm red line — there 's a cut-out at 6700rpm — and the engine stays on boost , the widely spaced gear ratios are disguised and acceleration is impressive enough , without ever feeling as energetic or gutsy as the Vauxhall 's .
3 And the elaborate sacrificial system has found its fulfilment in the one sacrifice of Christ — the perfect Lamb of God — through whom sins are forgiven and atonement is made for all men for ever ( see Hebrews 10:1–18 ) .
4 Early in 1983 the new Bomber Command Hall extension had been completed and Sugar was moved the few yards to take pride of place at the entrance to the exhibition , where she still is today .
5 Tax-rates were cut , reliefs reduced or abolished and the £30,000 ceiling for mortgage relief has been frozen while relief is now restricted to the basic rate .
6 Clubs and organisations attracting this group are targeted where use is made of the Scottish Road Safety Campaign leaflet ‘ The Older Road User ’ to best effect .
7 Parents are moved because childhood is so swift and vanishing .
8 It has been said that Vial was quite unsuited for the post of founding Professor .
9 Although the fish are probably using water currents , the sun or a magnetic sense to help them achieve this feat , it has long been suspected that smell is also involved .
10 In some of these areas , progress had been made but agreement was believed to be conditional on the outcome of the dispute over agricultural trade .
11 decisions have already been made and implementation is the main activity
12 My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack .
13 It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively .
14 It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology , functionalism on a ruling ideology .
15 Except in the mountainous Balkans , this did not prove possible : and it has more recently been argued that resistance was ‘ seldom effective , sometimes stultifying , frequently dangerous , and almost always too costly ’ .
16 Thus , it has been argued that photography is the quintessential surrealist art form , that photographs are like ‘ death masks ’ , like footprints in the sense of being ‘ imprints of the real ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 110 ) .
17 It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent .
18 This file is only read when LIFESPAN starts up and so changes that are made while LIFESPAN is running will not take effect until LIFESPAN is stopped and restarted .
19 Using this information it is possible to make a plot of the aircraft 's track over the ground when the necessary calibration and other corrections are made and allowance is made for the effect of wind on the flight path .
20 Mistakes are made when DNA is copied during replication , and environmental mutagens such as background radiation also cause errors .
21 The convergence properties of the QR algorithm are superior to those of LR , particularly when shifts are used and deflation is performed whenever possible .
22 Illustrations of the vehicles used for long distance services linking London with the West Country and the North , are shown and mention is made of these services being operated under control by several operators and then , by BRS .
23 It has been shown that endoscopy is safe even in high risk groups if performed by a skilled practitioner .
24 But it has never been shown that induction is logically more respectable than a formalized argument from analogy , indeed that induction from some particulars leading to deduction of others is anything else but a roundabout argument from analogy .
25 Although these attitudes still persist , the general view has been transformed and reminiscence is now seen as a normal , if not essential , element of successfully growing old .
26 Further major capital expenditure has now been approved and work is already underway with the installation of a second line and additional warehousing .
27 By March 1991 three orphanages had been renovated and work is continuing to help those youngsters .
28 This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land .
29 However , even before the Act of 1989 made the distinction clear for all to see , it had long been recognised that wardship was only machinery and that the court 's inherent jurisdiction could be exercised whether or not the child was a ward : see , for example , In re L. ( An Infant ) [ 1968 ] P. 119 , 157 .
30 We have already seen how the study of sequences of tone-units in the speech of one speaker can reveal information carried by intonation which would not have been recognised if intonation was analysed only at the level of individual tone-units .
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