Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order in which the various members of the underframe were assembled was : |
| 2 | At present valuations , the figure being asked is around three times the price valuers working for the county council expect for common land with ancient rights over it … |
| 3 | Another special deal being offered is the chance of a one-way upgrade to the comfort of Club Class at a cost of from £299 on Caribbean routes , £349 for Florida and £359 for Indian Ocean destinations . |
| 4 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 5 | The video-tape being produced was obviously defective , even to the naked eye . |
| 6 | In hospital wards , short admission — discharge sequences reinforce the acute model , even if the condition being treated is not acute at all . |
| 7 | In music the end of all grouping reductions is the tonic chord of the key the piece being analysed is in . |
| 8 | The research being undertaken is a unique opportunity for a detailed cross-national comparison of the contracting systems in the UK and France through a controlled pair of case studies of construction projects . |
| 9 | The sound of a shotgun being fired was then heard . |
| 10 | ‘ The skim Pyle and his unknown associate were perpetrating was ten per cent of the Ministry accounts . ’ |
| 11 | If so , where was the general coverage of the recent study showing poor pregnancy outcome among women receiving routine Doppler ultrasound scans ? — or of the large scale trial in the United States showing that half of the coronary angiography being undertaken is unnecessary or postponable ? |
| 12 | Since under national legal systems it is usually stipulated that the place in which the association is established is to be the place of performance of obligations arising out of the act of becoming a member , the application of article 5(1) of the Convention also has practical advantages : the court for the place in which the association has its seat is in fact usually the best fitted to understand the documents of constitution , rules and decisions of the association , and also the circumstances out of which the dispute arose . |
| 13 | The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself . |
| 14 | Sweeping changes in the way Durham county fire brigade is run were approved by county councillors on Thursday . |
| 15 | Answer guide : This information will be used later in the question when the question of how the stock is valued is discussed . |
| 16 | Amplifiers that are well suited to performing mathematical operations on input signals when negative feedback is applied are termed operational amplifiers . |
| 17 | Finally , ignoring the context within which violence is portrayed is decidedly risky . |
| 18 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 19 | What the third defendant is asserting is a statutory cause of action under the Act of 1978 , the only necessary ingredients of which are that a person or persons , namely the plaintiffs , have against the third party a cause of action in respect of the same damage as gives rise to that person or person 's cause of action against the third defendant . |
| 20 | The way in which a dictionary is indexed is also important . |
| 21 | Rebekah 's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah 's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 22 | Whether economic loss is included is unknown but it would be logical if it were . |
| 23 | When questioned over the possibility of the EC issuing regulations ( which must be followed exactly ) as opposed to directives ( where the result must comply , but the means by which the result is obtained is not stipulated ) 0 , the DoE pointed out that although there was ‘ a greater certainty with regard to regulation ’ it was important to bear in mind that different countries have different administration regimes and that directly applicable regulations could , therefore , cause problems . |
| 24 | There 's one parametric control and one pickup and almost anyone from a distance would think that where the pickup is positioned is a soundhole , but the weight of it soon tells you it 's not hollow ! ’ |
| 25 | While the law as to imputing to a principal the knowledge acquired by his agent in the course of the business about which the agent is employed is at points confused ( see Bowstead , Agency , 13th edn , Article 112 and pp 356–7 ) , it would have been difficult in the circumstances of the case to withhold the concession . |
| 26 | The fact of the recent move plus my mind 's having been engaged elsewhere might , I hoped , explain this otherwise crass stupidity . |
| 27 | First of all , however , the physical principles on which remote sensing is based are reviewed . |
| 28 | The base on to which the silver is electroplated is a mix of nickel , copper and zinc , called nickel silver , although there is no silver in the alloy . |
| 29 | One of the players whose future is assured is 18-year-old Jamie Pollock , who is set to return to the side tonight after struggling to hold down a regular place . |
| 30 | The first thing that must be determined when considering the rights of employees when a relocation is planned is what the contract of employment says in relation to employees ' place of work . |