Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision in Pickstone v. Freemans Plc. [ 1989 ] A.C. 66 which authorises the court to look at ministerial statements made in introducing regulations which could not be amended by Parliament is logically indistinguishable from such statements made in introducing a statutory provision which , though capable of amendment , was not in fact amended . |
| 2 | In short , the origin of ‘ civilisation ’ might well be traced to man 's dawning understanding that the ‘ joie de vivre ’ experienced in childhood was being lost to the individual as his life went on . |
| 3 | A unilateral right to require a dispute about the rent to be referred to arbitration is " an agreement to refer future disputes to arbitration " ( Arbitration Act 1950 , s27 ; Pitallis v Sherefettin [ 1986 ] QB 868 ) and the court has power to extend the time for service of a counternotice if undue hardship would otherwise result ( ibid ) . |
| 4 | For those examples that have been described so far , the best advice that can be given to individuals is to help them to strengthen their time-cues and to take more notice of them . |
| 5 | An interesting warning can be gathered from Pooley 's that remaining in such an area for more than one minute risks possible harm from radiation . |
| 6 | To have ideas like this one taken seriously and to be treated with respect is surely a reasonable request . |
| 7 | Where , and only where , such court established under this Constitution as may be prescribed by law is satisfied that — |
| 8 | The range of languages which can be accredited by SCOTVEC is now very wide and can be extended at any time to meet demand . |
| 9 | To be irritated by criticism is to acknowledge it was deserved . |
| 10 | For both judges and ordinary people will have come to see that the area that should be dominated by predictability is very large , and citizens will make their plans assuming that judges take that view and so will not often reverse settled legal practice . |
| 11 | The question which should be addressed in evaluation is whether the progress is satisfactory and , if not , where it falls short and could be improved . |
| 12 | DEC UK workstation marketing manager Charles Monk told our sister paper Unigram.X that the 300L will be targeted against Sun 's 50MHz microSparc-based Classic machine , which costs £3,655 . |
| 13 | ‘ To die for faction is a common evil , ’ said one of Joyce 's most-quoted English poets , John Dryden , ‘ But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil . ’ |
| 14 | The development which may legitimately — or hopefully — be expected by owners is in fact spread over a far larger area than is likely to be developed . |
| 15 | He can never be forgotten throughout heaven 's eternal days ! |
| 16 | The successful Rover eight hundred range will be made at Cowley 's North Works . |
| 17 | One objective distinction which can be made between films is the manoeuvre being performed by the driver . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 19 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 20 | The reason why changes ought to be made in language is to bring it into line with the way things really are . |
| 21 | Thanks to Clive Wilmer among others , an exhibition of paintings , sculptures , photographs and printed material bearing on Pound 's interests in ‘ the visual arts ’ was mounted for the Cambridge Poetry Festival on 14 June , and could be seen in Cambridge 's not sufficiently renowned Kettle 's Yard Gallery until 4 August ; it will now be at the Tate from 11 September to 10 November . |
| 22 | Territoriality , dominance , and ritualized fighting all result in the fact , often noticed , that the amount of naked aggression to be seen in nature is less than the maximum possible . |
| 23 | Miss Whitfield , 65 , can currently be seen in BBC2 's Absolutely Fabulous and also in Terry and June being shown on UK Gold . |
| 24 | What can be said with certainty is that the Danes still dance a Bournonville ballet much better than any other company , with far greater understanding and sympathy for its original style . |
| 25 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 26 | All that can really be said with certainty is that quasi-governmental bodies generally operate in narrower , more specific areas than government departments or local authorities . |
| 27 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 29 | The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes , despite being wrong on most occasions . |
| 30 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |