Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is further demonstrated by the decision in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026. 3.2 Business secrets There is no doubt that business secrets are recognised as constituting an interest meriting protection . |
| 2 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 3 | In both cycles the fostering of sound moral , religious and patriotic attitudes are conceived as permeating the whole of the curriculum . ’ |
| 4 | Majority of toilets are locked and require a RADAR key — available from Social Service departments or may be purchased from Burnham-on-Sea or Cheddar Tourist Information Centres . |
| 5 | Their advice is that it would be wise to wait until all the rules are formalised and to secure a rock-solid conveyance . |
| 6 | Progress is being made in areas such as cross-platform and cross-product integration , ease of use , and information sharing , and products are emerging that extend the scope of the spreadsheet into the world of multi-dimensional modelling |
| 7 | If the objective of a democratic legislature is to inform the public about issues , to let them know what pressure groups are saying and to allow the civil service to assess public reaction before rather than after the government is committed to a line of action , then pressure groups should address Parliament . |
| 8 | It is worth spending a few minutes looking at how the waves are breaking and picking the best place and time to launch . |
| 9 | Solicitors acting for the National Union of Journalists are considering whether to bring a ‘ representative ’ or class action case against the newspaper , whose staff has been among the worst hit by the industrial injury . |
| 10 | Intraperitoneal injections are given while holding the animal as in Figure lb on its back with the head slightly down . |
| 11 | Adolescent speakers are shown as making a choice between " English " and " Jamaican Creole " on the basis of domain ( home/school ; playground/classroom ) , interlocutor ( white/black ) and interaction type ( +/ — conflict ) . |
| 12 | One important editing chore is to ‘ top and tail ’ shots to give tidy beginnings and endings , especially if subjects are entering or leaving the shot . |
| 13 | Commenting on the report , the Financial Times remarked that these sectors are identified as dominating the thrust towards a post-industrial society , and as : ‘ spearheading the second industrial revolution , and settling employment trends , such as part-time working , job sharing and decentralisation ’ ( Financial Times , 5 February , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | If the central provinces are taken as typical , the neo-populist case is persuasive ; if , on the other hand , the outlying provinces are regarded as blazing a trail which central Russia would follow , it falls to the ground . |
| 15 | I am glad that the Minister recognises that the results confirm previous studies — including those by Her Majesty 's inspectorate — that most children , teachers and schools are getting or offer a good education . |
| 16 | If teachers in ordinary schools are to identify and meet the whole range of special needs , including those of children currently in special schools , they are entitled to support . |
| 17 | We eased ourselves along the channel out between the rocks to the edge of where the waves were breaking and watched a few big sets roll through . |
| 18 | Some men might be able to present their own case : Sir John Harington described how he intended to bring forward a suit of his own by getting into the Privy Chamber before the breakfast covers were placed and waylaying the Queen when she came out of her bedchamber . |
| 19 | Subjects were told whether to produce an active or a passive sentence to describe the picture , and production latency was measured . |
| 20 | If the gallery outside the silver door had hummed and quivered and thrown out heat before , now the sensations were magnified and multiplied a hundred times as Calatin set the Silver Looms to harness the power of the sorcerer . |
| 21 | Unimaginable shapes were swirling and lapping the shores of distant worlds . |
| 22 | A simple test for woollen rugs is to fold or crease the pile and see how quickly the wool returns to its original shape . |
| 23 | While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring . |
| 24 | His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party . |
| 25 | In the church , the blacks have no hymnbooks , and we are told that even if they had them they probably could not read them , showing that the blacks are oppressed and have no opportunity of an education . |
| 26 | Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who died in the two world wars , to build and maintain memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown , and to keep records and registers . |
| 27 | Indians were seen as representing the Vietcong , nineteenth-century negro slaves spoke like members of the Black Power movement , and detailed blood-baths were presented as condemnations of violence . |
| 28 | During their conference certain industry visits were arranged and following the opening of JM 's newest autocatalyst plant in South Africa , together with the investment interest the product invokes , a visit to our plant was considered highly appropriate . |
| 29 | As before , his duties were to direct and evaluate the flow of intelligence data , channel it back to the DIA in Washington , and act as paymaster for what was now by far the most valuable Western intelligence asset in the Middle East . |
| 30 | It would be a tragedy if the use of violence or any confusion introduced by irregular elements on the picket lines were to divide and deflect the support given by responsible trade unionists all over the country aimed at achieving an early and a peaceful solution to this problem . |