Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the modish concept of " proto-industrialisation " ( above pp. 4 – 5 ) has led to a dominant image of women 's work as having been hidden because in rural cottage manufacturing it , as with the work of children , was subsumed in a family unit of production in which it was neither separately waged nor described . |
| 2 | His visit , the first by a senior East European official since the collapse of communism there , had been delayed because of political turmoil in China and Poland , according to a Polish official . |
| 3 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 4 | Their heightened expectations for educational progress had not been realised because of low investment and poor management . |
| 5 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |
| 6 | Plasma cAMP and cGMP values , nephrogenous cAMP , and total cAMP and cGMP urinary excretion were significantly higher in patients who had not been treated than in normal subjects ( Table III ) . |
| 7 | During their lives faithful Roman Catholics are taught that by certain sacraments a person becomes a Christian , obtains ongoing pardon for sins and is prepared for the life hereafter . |
| 8 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 9 | It has been calculated that in general elections from 1922 to 1977 inclusive average " leakages " amounted to roughly one-fifth of Fianna Fail 's potential votes , a quarter of Fine Gael 's and one third of Labour 's . |
| 10 | Schooled children , on the other hand , may have been taught that in formal school situations such assumptions must be suspended , however strange that may appear to be . |
| 11 | The UK Department of Transport 's plans to build a road through rare water meadows in Herefordshire have been rejected on environmental grounds after a public inquiry — reportedly the first time that a road project has been halted because of environmental concern . |
| 12 | The UK gives the least subsidies of any major marine manufacturing country and only warship yards are regarded as of strategic significance . |
| 13 | Parental support and co-operation are regarded as of paramount importance and to facilitate this the school is open until 9 p.m. on one evening each week during term , when parents meet heads of departments and/or class teachers according to a system of appointments . |
| 14 | In the simplest electrostatic picture of a complex such as , for instance , the lone pairs of the oxygen atoms in the water molecules are regarded as in pure ligand orbitals and the eight d electrons of the nickel are held in pure d orbitals . |
| 15 | The Congress ( I ) claim to form a government headed by V. Vaithilingam was accepted by the Lieutenant-Governor , Har Swarup Singh , on June 22 but a government had not been formed as of early July . |
| 16 | On coach/air and coach touring holidays , all road tolls , ferry and port charges are included and on self-drive holidays , port charges are included when you book our special rate ferry tickets . |
| 17 | The collection of data and the general observation stage ( often referred to in general terms as ‘ the field work ’ ) can be an onerous step for the inexperienced researcher , particularly if the fieldwork is undertaken too soon , before ideas have been clarified or without adequate pilot studies being made to try out questionnaires or interview schedules . |
| 18 | This has been achieved by due consideration of the surrounding community whenever new development projects are considered and by planned maintenance of existing plant and machinery . |
| 19 | From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency . |
| 20 | The weakening of party and the creation of a strong committee system are seen as of especial importance in this regard . |
| 21 | The bodies of all three figures , however , are seen as in normal vision , from a single ( or stationary ) viewpoint . |
| 22 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 23 | The transition to fourth normal form has been made because of multivalued dependencies ( Fagin , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | They depend on assumptions which have been made and on uncertain future events . |
| 25 | But against this theory it has been argued that over large parts of the zebra 's range , insects are not a major problem , so without further analysis the idea is once again inconclusive . |
| 26 | Somewhat less obviously , it has been argued that in certain circumstances States can be treated as parties to the Court 's exercise of its advisory jurisdiction . |
| 27 | Sun was expected to display it at PC Expo this summer but Snoopy has never been seen except behind closed doors . |
| 28 | Many of the outlets in the UK are franchised and on short-term leases where rents have increased sharply . |
| 29 | There is power , not yet exercised , to apply similar provisions in relation to proceedings in non-Contracting States , and equivalent provisions are made as to provisional and protective measures in Scotland . |
| 30 | In both debates , terms such as flexibility and post-Fordism have loomed large and the automobile industry has frequently figured prominently in both and strong claims are made as to innovatory and transformatory effects of developments in vehicle manufacture and design . |