Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group of works in which large , often black , forms predominate are perhaps less successful . |
| 2 | When a prison officer requests a gun the reasons given are closely scrutinised , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 4 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 5 | Many of the definitions given are very general , for example that of Scriven : ‘ evaluation attempts to answer certain types of questions about certain entities ’ . |
| 6 | It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion . |
| 7 | The prevalence of depression among the elderly in institutions has been less well researched . |
| 8 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 9 | It 's not as if the contribution of Labour Councillors to th to the management of Health Authorities has been very er productive . |
| 10 | The Comptroller and Auditor General , appointed by the Crown on a resolution of the House of Commons by virtue of section 1(1) of the National Audit Act 1983 has two major functions : ( a ) to ensure that all money paid out of the government accounts has been properly authorised and is properly applied ; and ( b ) to examine the accounts of the , various government departments . |
| 11 | Wherever I have observed transactions of this kind the balancing of accounts has been very carefully worked out . |
| 12 | In the foregoing pages the history of five medieval South Slav states has been briefly outlined . |
| 13 | The preliminary conclusion must be that the general approach taken in the research projects has been clearly vindicated . |
| 14 | The Economic theory in its various forms has been extensively discussed and developed . |
| 15 | The rapid introduction of microelectronics-based technologies has been widely predicted to bring about profound changes in many areas of life . |
| 16 | A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated . |
| 17 | With no regulation of the industry , there is no way to police the cowboy end of the market , which the experts say is now well represented . |
| 18 | The location of the earliest episcopal churches — in the inhabited suburbs , within the walls , near the edge of the walled town , or near the centre ? — is often doubtful and in many cases has been much debated . |
| 19 | In most libraries user education activity fluctuates from year to year ; a bewildering range of teaching methods and teaching materials has been tried and applied ; and a discernible pattern of development in the programmes has been almost impossible to trace . |
| 20 | ( There are young people , functionally illiterate , whose involvement in educational pursuits has been greatly stimulated by allowing them to make slide-sequences or videotapes ; the acquisition of reading skills sometimes comes after the motivation has been established by other communication experiences . ) |
| 21 | Historically , the standard of diligence set by the courts has been comically low , as can be seen from the cases concerning failure to supervise fellow directors and managers who turn out to have been defrauding the company . |
| 22 | While the approach taken by the US courts has been much more progressive than that which has been adopted in Britain , it is nonetheless clear that in neither jurisdiction do directors owe a duty of disclosure when trading on impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 23 | The neo-conceptualism of the Goldsmiths ' artists has been heavily influenced by the dominating intellectual presences there , Thompson and the artist Michael Craig-Martin , both of whom have now left . |
| 24 | While the impact of deep recession after 1979 on the conurbations and inner cities has been widely recognised and researched , far less is known about conditions in those labour markets outside the main cities where one or two dominant companies have declared major redundancy programmes in the course of restructuring . |
| 25 | But it is ironic that a generation that is so impatient with the cultural adaptations of other generations has been so adept at setting up its own . |
| 26 | In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight . |
| 27 | Even the possibility of using income generated by the sale of council houses has been sharply restricted . |
| 28 | In areas where cattle stealing was highly organized and ransoming common it is likely that the proportion of cases reported was very much smaller . |
| 29 | On the clay the woods visited were predominantly mature mixed deciduous or coppice , and often damp . |
| 30 | This adaptable group of birds has been very successful at exploiting food resources made available by humans . |