Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the male , Trichomonas vaginalis usually affects the urethra and the symptoms that it produces are less than those found with gonococcal or other non-gonococcal causes of urethritis . |
| 2 | Attached to this plant and the dye it produces are several beliefs which are especially pertinent to the families of fishermen . |
| 3 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 4 | When a person is seeking employment , council membership and the demands it imposes are unlikely to recommend him or her to prospective employers . |
| 5 | Other useful transforms are those of differential and integral functions . |
| 6 | ‘ Home knits are best for Baby and such fun to do . ’ |
| 7 | it thinks are appropriate . |
| 8 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 9 | The exact number to be allowed was entirely a matter for the constable who ‘ must be left to take such steps as on the evidence before him he thinks are proper ’ . |
| 10 | Before making their individual territory estimates , the salesforce may be briefed on past trends , and on significant factors that the company thinks are likely to affect total sales during the forthcoming period . |
| 11 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |
| 12 | Weekly cash wages payment is likely to rule out credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts , The forms of credit which it encourages are those involving weekly instalments : mail order , trading checks , tallymen and weekly credit callers . |
| 13 | the stall 's not there now , and all the thick one and thins are all alike |
| 14 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 15 | Such aspirations as he has are short-lived , stick almost in the throat , as the notes of the song might in the throat of an unconfident would-be singer . |
| 16 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
| 17 | When the algorithm starts with an empty grammar , the only symbols it has are those in the text . |
| 18 | Valentin has been discreet about his upbringing . |
| 19 | But one of the most lucrative markets , the office , has been untouched . |
| 20 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 21 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 22 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 23 | For that reason , abstract art has been anxious to distance itself from decoration . |
| 24 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
| 25 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 26 | The Government has been anxious to find a slot for such legislation but has not acted yet , partly because of a full parliamentary timetable and because of technical difficulties in defining which types of weapons should be outlawed . |
| 27 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |
| 28 | The UK is only beginning to realise the potential of partnerships ; education has been shy to join hands with business and vice versa , but it has to happen . |
| 29 | A girl who has been shy or awkward can become quite self-possessed as she cares for her new baby . |
| 30 | A recent visitor has been 37418 ‘ Pectinidae ’ on hire from the Petroleum Sector . |