Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much more likely explanation of Libet 's findings is simply that all experiences are delayed relative to the stimulus causing them , so that synchronous external events produce synchronous experiences . |
| 2 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 3 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 4 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 5 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 6 | When viewed at visible wavelengths the Cytherean clouds are rather featureless , and are tinged yellow , perhaps by small quantities of sulphur . |
| 7 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 8 | Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz are building new car factories in the east , at a cost of DM5 billion and DM1 billion respectively . |
| 9 | We are building new obstacles and barriers . |
| 10 | The DIY firm Wickes , and Toys R Us are building new superstores there , creating thirty five jobs . |
| 11 | Not least , they serve as a warning to firms that are building dominant positions in markets that their conduct is likely to be scrutinized if their market share crosses a given threshold . |
| 12 | Toyota and Nissan are building electric versions of their luxury barges . |
| 13 | The Japanese are building artificial ski slopes in a new material which is claimed to closely simulate the sensation of snow . |
| 14 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 15 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 16 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 17 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 18 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 19 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 20 | Gods messages , imparted to him in visions , are embodied in the Loran are gathered political or legal revelations as well as spiritual ones . |
| 21 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |
| 22 | On the contrary , in building a new product category they are accepting high levels of risk . |
| 23 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 24 | Apart from that , you are wasting good knitting time while you are popping around with deliveries . |
| 25 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 26 | The ministry 's brief would be to ‘ make sure women 's voices are heard loud and clear in the very centre of power ’ . |
| 27 | Strange sounds are heard live over the loud speaker monitors , some times spoiling the recordings . |
| 28 | Dividends are automatically calculated net of tax , but coupons are calculated gross and have to be adjusted . |
| 29 | By adopting policies against sexual harassment they are opposing hitherto-accepted codes of normal masculinity and their effects in exercising power and control over women . |
| 30 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |