Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a payment has been treated as a gift : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 2 | A complete set of software tools to aid the physical mapping of a genome has been developed and successfully applied to the genomic mapping of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe . |
| 3 | For those too old , lazy or hungover to face the 15-minute slog up this hill , a crag has been developed just outside the village right beside the D546 road to Sederon . |
| 4 | To one side , a kitchen had been improvised , and was partly shielded from the rest of the room with an embroidered curtain , perhaps as a gesture towards the more gentlemanly side of Victor 's life . |
| 5 | A Squadron had been divided into sections for the first period of their military training . |
| 6 | On the protection of members of the public , the hon. Gentleman said that a case had been decided , but that there was some doubt about the position . |
| 7 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 8 | He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused . |
| 9 | A case has been made for brief admission of patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric disorders , but who are in a state of particularly severe crisis . |
| 10 | Once re-investigation becomes routine , the fact that a case has been referred for re-investigation should attract no more concern than the fact that a medical diagnosis has been subjected to the test of a second opinion . |
| 11 | No one has yet argued that the attitudes of nineteenth-century working class wives ‘ modernised ’ , although such a case has been made for both young , single working class women and middle class wives . |
| 12 | It has also been suggested that several of these pagus centres were later promoted to the rank of civitas capitals in their own right ; examples for which a case has been made on epigraphic grounds in Britain include Carlisle , Ilchester and Water Newton . |
| 13 | To find whether a case has been proved or not . |
| 14 | ‘ I am afraid , Your Highness , ’ said Mahmoud stiffly , ‘ that once a case has been opened — ’ |
| 15 | What I find a bit puzzling is that , as far as I can see , automatic inspection of passports will eliminate the keen-eyed , guilt-inducing gaze from the man behind the desk who presumably , is looking for doctored documents , suspicious photographs and forged visas and stamps . |
| 16 | Such is his domination of Palestinian affairs that the grooming of a successor has been impossible . |
| 17 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 18 | The idea of a referendum had been supported by a petition with 516,000 signatures ; any such referendum would have to be held five months before the elections , planned for June 1992 . |
| 19 | Holding a referendum had been one of the conditions demanded by the European Communities ( EC ) before it would consider diplomatic recognition of an independent Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see pp. 38703-04 ] . |
| 20 | The Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) and the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 39103 ] agreed on Oct. 31 that they would unite after a referendum had been held and UN troops had withdrawn from the RSK . |
| 21 | Over the past 20 years the principle of a referendum has been accepted by Parliament for membership of the EEC , devolution in Scotland and Wales and maintenance of the Union in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | Scotland 's normal practice in qualifying groups is to pick up points early on and then drop some later when a cushion has been inflated to break their fall . |
| 23 | Allegations that Mr Bush had a mistress have been investigated by newspapers and referred to on radio and television . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the third party and his advisers seem to have acted as if such a direction had been given , for a document expressed to be a defence and counterclaim of the third party has been served . |
| 25 | Such a direction has been issued , for example , in respect of a large-scale retail shopping development . |
| 26 | Once a direction has been made it is the responsibility of the person conducting the examination or assessment to ensure that a child of sufficient understanding does in fact consent . |
| 27 | Mr Hunt told a news conference after meeting union leaders in Flint on October 23 : ‘ A moratorium has been placed on the closure of Point of Ayr and a direction has been given by the Government to British Coal that development work must continue at Point of Ayr . ’ |
| 28 | Some time during the muzzy fug of these dissipations , a decision had been reached . |
| 29 | Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow . |
| 30 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |