Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CERAMIDE Time Complex Capsules are dermatologically and clinically tested — contain no preservatives and are fragrance free . |
| 2 | Chief call notes are loud but rather liquid disyllabic croaks , ‘ curruc ’ and ‘ kittic ’ and a ‘ kaak ’ . |
| 3 | The concept of ‘ satisfaction with housework ’ follows the concept of ‘ work ’ or ‘ job ’ satisfaction as used in the sociology of industry and paid work ; it represents an overall assessment of the degree to which housewives are positively or negatively oriented to their work . |
| 4 | Discussions are underway as to whether to reinstate the Vasca del Tribolo ( at present on display inside the palace ) in the left hand arcade . |
| 5 | Suicides by vets are more than three and a half times the average for all groups , says the latest issue of Population Trends from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 6 | But be warned : trade flows are less and less useful as indicators of economic performance |
| 7 | At least 18 other investigations are underway while four further trials are due to take place within the next few months . |
| 8 | The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how . |
| 9 | American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War |
| 10 | At this point the sons are painfully and traumatically initiated — that is , they are subjected to brutal assaults , frightening experiences , are deprived of their mothers and all normal support and , usually at the climax of these experiences , are symbolically castrated by means of some customary mutilation ( very often the rather close equivalent represented by circumcision , but otherwise by knocking out of teeth , pulling out of nails , loss of fingers , etc . ) . |
| 11 | This rule may help to keep clear the distinction between those interventions which seek to challenge the structural conditions under which racist discourses are directly or indirectly reproduced , and those strategies which aim to interrupt their circulation in specific micro-contexts , and/or introduce alternative story lines . |
| 12 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 13 | A survey of FEL activity around the world shows that about 50 projects are under-way and several others are seeking funding . |
| 14 | This can be contrasted with the antiquity of rocks exposed over large areas of the continents which in some cases are more than 3000 Ma old . |
| 15 | The shareholders in non-profit institutions and publicly owned companies in both cases are more or less synonymous with the customers of the firm ; they provide no additional constraint apart from this , though in publicly owned companies the relevant government department will impose its own constraints ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | and then do your other half of knot , reef knot and tuck it in straight away , you get your pin ready , have it on , either on the table or ready like that , now if you 've got too much material ever you just fold that down , there , if that 's too much , which is n't too much with Denise because it 's the right size sling , sometimes you have to improvise and then you fold if forward and back , firmly , take the pin and put it , put your two fingers down between the casualty so that your fingers are apart and there 's a space between your fingers so you can stick the pin in and out again without any danger , if you put the fingers apart like that , if you do stick the pin in yourself and draw blood would you please throw the pin away , as a matter of automatic hygiene , it must n't be used again once it 's been stuck into somebody |
| 17 | If the emphasis is on people whose holiday activities are more or less self-explanatory , a main title ( which can be pre-recorded onto the beginning of the tape or superimposed live over the opening shot by your camcorder 's titling facility ) may be all that is required to set the scene . |
| 18 | Ministers are fond of criticising local government because many local authorities are less than 100 per cent . |
| 19 | These are obvious cases because the forms are linguistically or stylistically related , and in one of them it will be shown later that the name became hereditary — as Forsey — down to the twentieth century . |
| 20 | The biggest peaks are here and the Irish Sea forms a backdrop to all the views to the south and east . |
| 21 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 22 | The council 's survey shows that 50 out of the 340 double and single decker buses in the fleets of County Durham 's six major operators are more than 15 years old . |
| 23 | Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined . |
| 24 | And it follows from this that all such meanings are socially and historically grounded : they come bearing the marks of particular usages and contexts , and are never disinterested . |
| 25 | But there are many cases where the merging of meanings are more and we have to be on our guard . |
| 26 | For Lamb , catering is a very satisfying part of being a prison officer , but he does have dissatisfactions : ‘ I do n't think the rations are enough and there is n't enough variety . |
| 27 | Normal values are less than 2% . |
| 28 | The traditional leather-trimmed wheel and large round instrument dials are just as you remember them . |
| 29 | Federal budget requests are just that : requests . |
| 30 | Bad Ideas 3 : Plans are underway for Yo , Alice , a hip hop streetwise version of Alice In Wonderland . |