Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although shy by nature , Datnoides are remarkably intelligent , soon coming to recognise their owner and apparently enjoying attention , feeding happily from the hand . |
| 2 | Replicas are very useful for reconstruction activities . |
| 3 | The institutions are also not entitled to receive information about the pupil 's racial group , religion , home language or court reports . |
| 4 | Most institutions are also able to draw on hardship funds of their own , of course . |
| 5 | Advertisements sent to relevant European institutions are also exempt . |
| 6 | Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation . |
| 7 | ‘ The most conspicuously ‘ democratic ’ institutions are largely symbolic and expressive in character' ( Edelman , 1964 , p. 19 ) , but the real sites of decision-making are not conspicuously democratic . |
| 8 | For on the argument here , higher education is essentially a developmental process experienced by students ; staff and institutions are largely incidental . |
| 9 | In common with the Minister from the Scottish Office , the Minister rightly says that the institutions are best equipped to know the needs of their students . |
| 10 | Despite political division , the churches unite in their membership of the Middle East Council of Churches , and continue to play a leading role in a part of the world whose institutions are most important . |
| 11 | The non-university institutions are however , formally sub-divided , by location and partly by type . |
| 12 | These institutions are simply coping with low pass rates in the matriculation exam , an immediate manifestation of a broader problem of apartheid education which they can do nothing to solve . |
| 13 | The structure of the privatisation is such that institutions are effectively being left with no say in how they spend the funds they are supposed to manage on behalf of their clients . |
| 14 | In contrast , most big American and European institutions are already at or above the BIS target . |
| 15 | Banks , insurance companies and other financial institutions are already offering comparable services . |
| 16 | Banks and other financial institutions are already heavy users of electronic funds transfer , and it is likely to be widely adopted by businesses handling large number of cash transactions , as in the retail trade , for example . |
| 17 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 18 | However , not all teachers can gain access to these courses as the institutions are geographically very unevenly distributed . |
| 19 | They may find respectable society and lawful opportunities closed to them while unlawful ones are opened up ( custodial institutions are notoriously ‘ schools for crime ’ where offenders can meet each other , learn criminal techniques and enter into a criminal sub-culture ) , and their self-image may change from that of a law-abiding person to that of a deviant . |
| 20 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |
| 21 | For this purpose , nine institutions are currently recognized and approved by the DES : Birmingham , Brighton , Bristol , Leeds , Leicester , Liverpool , Middlesex and Manchester Polytechnics and the former Cardiff College of Art , now merged into the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education . |
| 22 | These institutions are very different from the colonial ones of the past , but none the less many of the assumptions that lie behind today 's conservation policies and projects remain intact . |
| 23 | The institutions are now prepared to lend larger multiples of income , and higher proportions of the purchase price . |
| 24 | It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees . |
| 25 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 26 | All institutions are now known as ‘ authorized institutions ’ , and the use of the word ‘ bank ’ was restricted to those institutions which had a paid-up capital of at least f5m , but in all other respects the 1981 classification remained . |
| 27 | About 600 institutions are now included in the ‘ UK Banking Sector ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet the fact remains that people for whom all other comforts are provided in residential institutions are still largely neglected as regards sexual need . |