Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nochlin has played a genuinely pioneering role in the development of Anglo-American feminist art history and the essays deserve to be placed within that intellectual and political context . |
| 2 | Conceptually , the acts continued to be underpinned by a dual commitment to physical improvement and moral regulation . |
| 3 | The experts seem to be romancing about figments of their imagination ; he can see nothing that they are talking about . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the ropes seems to be jammed . ’ |
| 5 | At the height of the gale I go down to the pier to see how our local boats are doing , but all the anchors appear to be holding firm . |
| 6 | Secondly , recruitment to the programmes seems to be very largely confined to teachers of non-advanced further education , responsible for courses at craft or technician level or below . |
| 7 | They are similar to documentary programmes except that the content is more ephemeral as , by definition , the programmes have to be topical . |
| 8 | The institutions preferred to be regulated by ‘ one of their own ’ . |
| 9 | Paul Baines has shown that this is caused by the essential or volatile oils , which the alchemists considered to be the soul of a plant . |
| 10 | From ( 8.18 ) above , this requires the futures price to be less than the expecked spot price . |
| 11 | B. The mine owners found that the cost of pumping water was expensive , particularly when the easiest deposits near the surface had been extracted and the mines had to be sunk deeper . |
| 12 | Most of those whom the investigations showed to be credit-worthy justified the faith put in them and stayed the course . |
| 13 | PHCNs in their role of providing clinical care at the clinics need to be clinically competent . |
| 14 | The dangers appear to be Readingbased Prince Charming ( 41.90 ) and local open racer Breathless ( 41.99 ) , trained by Gordon Rooks . |
| 15 | But with the summer holidays … and freedom … around the corner the dangers need to be balanced.Crime prevention officers working with children say there are obvious guidelines … |
| 16 | Instead , the speakers for the religions seem to be almost indifferent to the lying , cheating , devious commercial practices , the usury , the violence of petty and major crime , the unbridled selfishness manifest among some of the multitudes using the roads , the odour of the suspicion of bribery and corruption rising above the town halls and other organisation headquarters and many other evils . |
| 17 | However once the courts began to be willing to reassess the constituent elements of jurisdiction , under the collateral fact doctrine , then it was natural also to require some proof that the condition was indeed fulfilled on the facts of the particular case . |
| 18 | Whether this path is taken by the courts remains to be seen . |
| 19 | Unlike the fully suspended sentence which had become popular , in some ways too popular with the initial enthusiasm of the courts having to be reined in by the Court of Appeal , the partly suspended sentence never caught on . |
| 20 | A new role for the courts has to be fashioned out of our system of parliamentary democracy — Justinian . |
| 21 | Because expression may exist at various levels of abstraction ( for example , in the program 's structure ) the courts have to be able to distinguish between idea and expression . |
| 22 | Another case in which the courts appeared to be in conflict with ministers was Gouriet v. Union of Post Office Workers , in which the plaintiff sought an order from the court to restrain the defendant trade union from breaking the law by refusing to handle mail to South Africa . |
| 23 | Mounting pressure was brought upon judges to interpret the law as it suited the government , and when the courts refused to be cowed , the police resorted freely to administrative action . |
| 24 | It was his publication in 1763 of what the courts decided to be a seditious libel on George III which led to the judicial decision that general warrants were illegal ( see p. 136 ) . |
| 25 | De Klerk 's response to the Harms report was effectively to exonerate Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan ( held by the Harms report to be " politically responsible " for the existence of the CCB ) from all responsibility for the activities of the discredited CCB , declaring that the report 's findings belonged to a past era , and there was " no reason to condemn the politicians in charge for the way in which they carried out their duties " . |
| 26 | Even the ducks seemed to be giving it a miss . |
| 27 | And it 's all all the loads have to be signed by Chand and or to say |
| 28 | They too are just the horns the Riders happen to be blowing , but they carry meaning in a more complicated way as well . |
| 29 | Above all , the notes need to be spot on while allowing the overall rhythm to flow smoothly . |
| 30 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |