Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
| 2 | ‘ Publicity has led to young people to believe that drug taking is about heroin and crack and has failed to cover the dangers of other less notorious drugs , ’ said Mr McMullin . |
| 3 | So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight . |
| 4 | She remembered his scratched plans and his frowning concentration , and for the first time fully understood that all that persistence had been devoted to the cause of breaking into Parfois . |
| 5 | The tatie of course what it says , that vegetable having been traditionally associated with stupidity . |
| 6 | He had already noted , with some concern , that money raised was immediately ‘ dissipated ’ into a range of fringe activities . |
| 7 | The fly in the ointment was that money had been switched from the Department of the Environment which is accountable to Parliament . |
| 8 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 9 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 10 | Already that money has been put to good use . |
| 11 | None of that money has been used on the HMI reports — not a penny piece . |
| 12 | I believe that that money has been carried forward , which means that funds are available today if the Minister should decide to pay the Axminster practice . |
| 13 | That money has been used to increase the number of lay staff , practice nurses and other professionals available in general practice and to improve the physical facilities in which general practice is offered . |
| 14 | It will either show he 's overdrawn or that money has been credited . |
| 15 | But that money has been frozen while the Maxwell empire is investigated , and Mr Govier ca n't even claim unemployment benefit . |
| 16 | So far only £160,000 of that money has been found . |
| 17 | 10 months on , that privilege has been withdrawn . |
| 18 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 19 | First you 'll have the embarrassment of being told that payment has been refused . |
| 20 | Each component has been announced as part of the System Ten announcement and in fact A P T and Gain Multimedia are available in production today . |
| 21 | ‘ Seed ’ sponsored ( a subset of the champion stage ) designates that funding has been provided by a department as a clear budgeted line-item . |
| 22 | So , I 'll be brief erm we welcome the report , we think that there 's a number of very valid points , we hope that funding has been agreed today er allow er the major parts of that go forward and now , we are commissioners route , further a funding group as for future years , so they will be accepting er the second Labour amendment . |
| 23 | Before the budget , because of the problem of trying to find money to cut the local bills , little progress had been made . |
| 24 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 25 | Bevin emphasised the accumulating problems resulting from the fact that little progress had been made : he had encountered difficulties at the British Commonwealth conference held at Colombo in January 1950 and there were criticisms of the United States for not having given a lead . |
| 26 | Foremost amongst the measures proposed in the latter instance was increased Aboriginal access to land , an issue upon which little progress had been made — with the possible exception of the sparsely populated Northern Territory — and which remained at the heart of much Aboriginal discontent . |
| 27 | At the conclusion of the meeting , little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties . |
| 28 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 29 | Of the present pilot sites , relatively little progress has been made in terms of collecting outcome information . |
| 30 | Industry is another area where little progress has been made . |