Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts of the Sen case were that Mr Sen was dismissed on 9th July 1990 . |
| 2 | Kipnis and Tsang ( 1984a ) argued that the usual relationship between spot and futures prices during the life of a futures contract is as shown in Fig. 7.3 . |
| 3 | The er the defence case is that er there was no duty a and in my submission it must be of assistance to your Lordship to determine that issue to hear evidence from both sides upon whether there is such a practice and if there is what the extent of it is . |
| 4 | But the problem which data of this kind present is whether or not contexts where the subject is realized by a personal pronoun or by these are possible ‘ variable ’ environments . |
| 5 | The special feature of chirp radar is that it does not have a fixed carrier frequency during each shriek . |
| 6 | The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance . |
| 7 | One of the major tenets of the mental models theory of text comprehension is that the model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for understanding the current sentence . |
| 8 | The lesson Haslam learned from his ICI experience was that wherever possible redundancy should be on a voluntary basis if the trauma were to be kept to a minimum . |
| 9 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 10 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 11 | Until recently a problem with handwriting recognition was that the tablet on which the writing took place and the screen on which it was displayed were physically separated . |
| 12 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 13 | The essential nature of a stem cell is that it is self-renewing and , as its name implies , the source of other cells . |
| 14 | The reason for the hair loss is that during pregnancy hormone levels are higher and keep the hair in its growing phase for much longer . |
| 15 | Another feature of the courts reorganization was that the Department was no longer located only in London . |
| 16 | The rationale for the inclusion of B in the money equation is that governments may finance expenditures which they are reluctant to pay for through taxes by methods which expand the money stock . |
| 17 | Erm the point about the regional census study was that it did a reasonably good job of analyzing the present situation , but not a very good job of the projections . |
| 18 | The only comment from Tek Pokharel of the Nepal Mountaineering Association was that it was a question of managing numbers , not limiting them : ‘ Everest is a big mountain ’ , he said . |
| 19 | The objectives of this short course programme are as follows : |
| 20 | ‘ I would remind you , Headmaster , that small as our boarding section is , the Ministry recommendation is that for any establishment of twenty boarders or more , a qualified matron be employed . |
| 21 | The significance of the sequence similarity between our gene and the vaccinia protein is as yet unclear . |
| 22 | Under CBA the decision criterion is that a project should be undertaken providing that the discounted value of the social benefits attributed to the project exceeds the discounted value of the social costs attributed to the project . |
| 23 | The initial investment outlay is deducted from the sum of these present value cash flows to produce the NPV of a project ; the decision rule is that all projects yielding a positive NPV should be accepted and all projects yielding a negative NPV should be rejected . |
| 24 | ‘ The thing with The Wedding Present is that they can be as big and as successful as they want to be , ’ says Marshall . |
| 25 | The main part of Residents ' Association case is that the amount of relief afforded by any western relief road , does not justify the environmental damage which that road will cause . |
| 26 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 27 | The research hypothesis is that each of these aspects exerts influence upon and is in turn influenced by the other two , and the project is designed to establish the precise nature of the inter-relationship . |
| 28 | So I want to start about talking about what Neighbourhood Watch is and what it is n't . |
| 29 | The second thing to say about humorous crime fiction is that you have to reconcile in your pages that sharp difference between crime , which arises from evil , and laughter , which is by and large a manifestation of good . |
| 30 | The trouble about Ellis 's preoccupation with crime fiction is that it 's a genre that sits most comfortably in an England that is dead and gone . ’ |