Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The only race card being played is being played by the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 4 | In hospital wards , short admission — discharge sequences reinforce the acute model , even if the condition being treated is not acute at all . |
| 5 | In music the end of all grouping reductions is the tonic chord of the key the piece being analysed is in . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Answer guide : This information will be used later in the question when the question of how the stock is valued is discussed . |
| 10 | Finally , ignoring the context within which violence is portrayed is decidedly risky . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The way in which a dictionary is indexed is also important . |
| 14 | Rebekah 's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah 's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 15 | Whether economic loss is included is unknown but it would be logical if it were . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period . |
| 23 | The degree finally obtained when study is organised is a credit as much to organisational ability as to brilliance . |
| 24 | The only place where this rule is broken is in the cycle of drink/drive adverts by the Central Office of Information . |
| 25 | The case of Nicholson v. Revill is one of the many instances in which this rule of law has been applied , and the reason upon which the rule is founded is as clear and plain as the rule itself . |
| 26 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 27 | If I say that er the the reduction the industry is facing is about fifty percent . |
| 28 | The experience has , however , shown that the format in which the tax computation is prepared is the key to successful and speedy CT 200 completion . |
| 29 | I hope that people will realise that what Labour is saying is inaccurate . |
| 30 | what Labour is saying is that the reason why there 's low employ high employment is because er where , they 're trying to cut inflation which is , one of the side ways of cutting inflation is that interest rates go up and , but the thing is that which then leads to unem unemployment , but the thing is you ca n't have a decent the , full growing economies , its full capacity if you 've got high inflation all the time knackering you up |