Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 We are learning that the way institutions are organized is increasingly a problem for men as well as women .
2 Mean time all the vil , all the mines are closing are they gon na say well yes well
3 Linguistic variables related to the development of phonological awareness and to the ease with which sound-letter correspondences are learned are investigated .
4 It should also be borne in mind that , in the current success of building surveying practice in the areas of project management — be the project new or refurbishment — and analysis of building performance , the medium through which these special skills are consolidated is client contact .
5 Often the information on which policies are based is too generalised , or taken from too broad a data base , to allow administrators to respond to local conditions .
6 No historian , for instance , would study the economy of a modern society by an examination of its coins ( or banknotes ) ; even questions about the way coins are used are usually better answered from anecdotal evidence .
7 In the second case , how the discourses are constructed is seen as an integral part of the power which they exercise in and through material practices of discrimination .
8 First , the tribunals to which the cases are taken are almost entirely composed of representatives of that group which benefits from discrimination against women , that is , men .
9 The way in which the definitions are used is as follows .
10 The court of the Faerie Queene from where the knights are dispatched is absent from the poem .
11 Although chemical weathering reflects the tendency for new minerals to be formed which are stable under conditions prevailing at the Earth 's surface , the rate at which these stable forms are produced is often very slow .
12 The type of subsoil upon which the foundations are built is a very influential factor .
13 With dynamic input the order in which the pixels are formed is known and provides accurate stroke-position and time-sequence information .
14 The range of problems on which solicitors are consulted is quite narrow , and of 27 categories adopted in the survey , seven accounted for over 80 per cent .
15 The understanding of the different ways in which meanings are conveyed is one area in which a vocabulary for the description and analysis of language is essential .
16 Some signs to look for in detecting when meetings are failing are :
17 While most of the indices on which index futures are traded are arithmetic indices ( for example , S&P500 , NYSE and FT-SE 100 ) , from 1982 to 1988 futures on a geometric index , the VLCI , were traded on the Kansas City Board of Trade .
18 In England the courts are almost certain to take the view that the way taxes are spent is a political question which the courts are not the proper bodies to consider , and that no taxpayer has sufficient interest to raise this matter in court .
19 This is because the way that these patterns are read is by knitting two rows of each colour , starting with colour one , then colour two , then colour three before moving on to the next line of the double length pattern .
20 World wide there are only two major suppliers , and the question of how those crucial contracts are awarded is now under scrutiny across the Atlantic .
21 The way in which entry and exit competences are linked is shown in the following diagram .
22 Because the upper limits of resolution depend on the acoustic wavelength being used , the path researchers are following is to increase the sound frequency , thereby shortening the wavelength .
23 His popularity , and the seriousness with which his views are treated is a measure of his achievement .
24 In market maker systems the time at which historic trades are published is of considerable importance , since this gives away the market maker 's position .
25 I think the solution is certainly to breed animals in zoos but , if it is done , a great deal of effort must be made to ensure the conditions in which the animals are kept are good , and there are some zoos now which are successful in keeping animals so that their welfare is good .
26 Expert determination is found in contracts between two parties ; the only occasions when more than two parties are involved are found in the valuation of shares in companies , but there again the parties are bound together by arrangements analogous to contracts .
27 Hey hey I say all these kids are doing is walking round with a bloody turnip with a candle in it .
28 But important changes in the way computers are sold are beginning to favour the Japanese
29 The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently .
30 In British higher education the precision with which goals are stated is usually inversely related to their institutional generality ; thus course and grassroots teaching teams usually have clearly articulated goals ; faculty goals are often pious but hopelessly vague ; institutional goals are rarely stated and are never sufficiently defined to be operationalizable .
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