Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Subsidised rates of interest are needed it is argued for times when interest rates are high due to monetary policy as in the 1990's , which might discourage start-ups and result in bankruptcies of small firms if loans are not available , and because rates charged by financial institutions are too high . |
| 32 | Yet it is arguable that it is the central question about any political system whether the decision making process , the institutions and the political culture which obtains , confer a sufficient degree of authority on the decisions themselves and upon those in power that those same institutions are still respected even if , in individual cases , the decisions themselves are not ; for lack of authority within a system and the respect this conveys can have catastrophic results . |
| 33 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |
| 34 | In no system in which democratic political institutions are still vibrant do bureaucracies dominate politics . |
| 35 | For example , banks are active in demanding bonds with short maturities , pension funds are active in demanding bonds with long maturities , while few institutions are greatly interested in medium maturity bonds . |
| 36 | Belgium is the extreme case of a country whose own institutions are so weak that EC integration seems the only substitute . |
| 37 | Some children brought up in institutions are so damaged by these experiences that they can not live in a family where they have to respond to others ' feelings and may escape into work in an institutional setting . |
| 38 | Speaking personally , my own view is that reputable City institutions are far too ready to temper the wind to slick operators like Ingard . |
| 39 | In times of crisis the budgets for cultural institutions are always the first to be suspended , and in some sense this is correct : I do n't want to compete with kindergartens . |
| 40 | The liabilities of financial institutions are quite willingly accepted as financial assets by their holders , i.e. bank depositors and insurance policy holders . |
| 41 | Institutions are much better if they are allowed to develop slowly . |
| 42 | Much will depend on the kind of organisation for which they work ; some employers and educational institutions are more open and liberal than others . |
| 43 | American institutions are more legalistic , adhering to principles enshrined in a written Constitution where all rights derive from the fundamental principles of liberty and equality . |
| 44 | The rules of wage bargaining institutions are almost certainly of importance in determining the quality of the agreement that are reached , as well as the costs ( in terms of money , time and effort ) of arriving at those agreements . |
| 45 | In this context , it should be noted that the rapid demolition of the colleges of education which followed was made possible by a unique regulator placed in the hands of the Secretary of State ; unlike the universities which are protected by a degree of autonomy and the polytechnics which are subject to a variety of controls and influences , overall teacher-training numbers and their distribution between individual institutions are directly controlled by the DES . |
| 46 | Few individuals or institutions are truly resistant to it . |
| 47 | Competition on interest rates has squeezed Tessa profit margins to around 0.4% gross , against the 1.3% to 1.4% usual on other banking products , according to S&P executive director Ian Lindsey , who points out that a number of institutions are consistently paying rates above the level of money market rates . |
| 48 | The senior officials of these institutions are therefore more or less free to act as they wish , so long as they show a reasonable profit . |
| 49 | The world 's great religions are even more notorious for simultaneously looking in different directions . |
| 50 | Many Jews , Muslims and members of other world religions are just as concerned about this as many Christians . |
| 51 | What is absolutely essential is that the integrity of each of the religions are properly preserved when they are taught . |
| 52 | They will have some feeling that the sacred books of the religions are really fairy stories , that religious people are out of date and a bit silly , that the clergy are figures of fun . |
| 53 | Suffice it here to note that I do not mean that all religions are really saying the same thing ; that differences do not matter , that they all have basically the same origins , or fulfil the same functions . |
| 54 | Religion is that ideal by which we live and act which , though not embodied in particular religions since all religions are necessarily imperfect , is nevertheless communicated to us through those particular religions . |
| 55 | The PIMS data still give some cause for puzzlement over the question of investment intensity , however , because Buzzell and Gale show that five-year averages of ROI are highly positively related to increases in the long-term value of the business , both being closely and positively associated with initial competitive position . |
| 56 | Our two white heavies are too big for the straight-back chairs they 've been tied to . |
| 57 | When , on isolated occasions such as the tragic accidents at Basle and Chicago , things really go wrong , it is vital that the accident investigating authorities like the NTSB and the AIB are totally independent of those great and influential organisations that regulate the industry . |
| 58 | Selection of suitable rootstocks in Champagne are greatly influenced by the solumological factor . |
| 59 | The text 's intertexts are as operative in its reception as in its composition . |
| 60 | The rifts of the The Fairy Melusina are heavily overloaded with ore ; during the Pre-Raphaelite Period it was admired by certain critics , including Swinburne , who called it , ‘ a quiet , muscular serpent of a tale , with more vigour and venom than is at all usual in the efforts of the female pen , but without narrative thrust ; rather , as was Coleridge 's Serpent who figured the Imagination , with its tail stuffed in its own mouth . ’ |