Example sentences of "[be] [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Slater Calverton 's U D M branch delegate says the speed at which the meeting has been arranged is another attempt by British Coal to reduce the review period which could give the mine a nine month life line . |
| 2 | Those who ride the Bay are surfing 's acknowledged aristocracy . |
| 3 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 4 | What I am advocating is balanced view of your own work and a more sensible approach to its shortcomings . |
| 5 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 6 | But he agrees whether they 're imposed is another story . |
| 7 | You open the application , set it to read text , set the page orientation , tell it if the document you 're scanning is poor quality — like dot matrix print — and where it is . |
| 8 | So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire . |
| 9 | You see and another thing what they 're saying is thirty year ago when Labour was in , there were strikes and everything |
| 10 | Men do n't usually conduct loud , enthusiastic duologues about rural delights ( not English men , anyway ) and it was even more unusual to hear someone butt in with ‘ Excuse me , I could n't help overhearing , and what you 're saying is absolute rubbish . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | LOCKJAW is actually another term for the extremely serious condition of Tetanus , and so I think what you are describing is recurrent dislocation of the tempero-mandibular joints , which link the jaw to the skull . |
| 13 | One point on which we are agreed is that instability in the economy is a definite hindrance . |
| 14 | What environmentalists are saying is that change should not be made for the benefit of a few and to the detriment of many . |
| 15 | Newby ( 1979 , p. 170 ) suggests that , in fact , ‘ what are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees ’ . |
| 16 | What are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees . |
| 17 | Chorus meanwhile , has already graduated to SVR4 and what SCO will be using is earlier Chorus technology more in keeping with its installed base . |
| 18 | So far as radiation is concerned , the major factor to be examined is cross-country variation in natural exposure , from radon and such-like . |
| 19 | What has to be examined is transferable expertise , both in the practical and the theoretical senses of the term . |
| 20 | One of the areas to be examined was criminal work in magistrates ’ courts . |
| 21 | The next candidate to be examined was arachidonic acid . |
| 22 | It appears that the type of injury which must be foreseen is serious injury and if that is so , the statement that indifference to any harm to health or welfare was sufficient ( Stone & Dobinson [ 1977 ] QB 754 ) is incorrect in the light of authorities from the 1980s . |
| 23 | A third effect which could be added is that business experience would be gained by the local merchant , and thus the society begins to develop a pool of people with such business experience . |
| 24 | Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs . |
| 25 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 26 | What can not be claimed is that education is always the cause and economic growth the effect . |
| 27 | The first generalization that can be made is that andesite lavas are more viscous than basalt ones . |
| 28 | The most fundamental realization that needs to be made is that desktop publishing uses ‘ real ’ typefaces which are proportionally spaced and not the monospaced characters of the word processing world . |
| 29 | The relevant circumstance for purposes of the comparison required by section 5(3) to be made is expected unavailability at the material time ( p 30 ) . |
| 30 | Another area where progress remained to be made was indirect taxation — specifically Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and excise duties . |