Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 To find whether a case has been proved or not .
9 ‘ I am afraid , Your Highness , ’ said Mahmoud stiffly , ‘ that once a case has been opened — ’
10 Such is his domination of Palestinian affairs that the grooming of a successor has been impossible .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Such a direction has been issued , for example , in respect of a large-scale retail shopping development .
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 In the absence of reasons , the citizen can not know whether a decision has been rationally , and hence lawfully made .
17 There is no option to sue once a decision has been made !
18 This exported oil or gas is not , as it is in the West , that part of production which is surplus to domestic requirements ; it is a quota which a decision has been taken to meet in order to fulfil a particular objective .
19 However , where a decision has been made to make redundancies and employees have been informed , the contingency crystallises into an actual liability .
20 If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances .
21 retain changes for which a decision has been deferred for inclusion on the agenda of a future Review Meeting
22 Once a decision has been reached by the housing authority which gives rise to the temporary , the limited or the full housing duty , rights and obligations are immediately created in the field of private law .
23 Mr. Watkinson submitted that in the present case , by way of contrast , in the words of Lord Bridge ‘ a decision has been reached by the housing authority which gives rise to the … full housing duty . ’
24 If we return to our example , we can see that if a subject hears Forgive us our tres … and a decision has been made at this point that the incomplete word is trespasses , the subject can begin to say trespasses and ignore the rest of the word .
25 Once a decision has been made not to aim for ‘ irrevocably fixed exchange rates ’ , the ERM loses all point and credibility .
26 Issues of institutional design do n't disappear once a decision has been made to adopt internal organization .
27 Provision is made for business reorganisation costs when a decision has been made in principle which will result in such liability being incurred .
28 When a decision has been reached , all concerned will be recalled and informed of the decision of the disciplinary committee .
29 I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years .
30 If a decision has been taken about liability for emotional injury one way or the other , and there can be no controversy what decision that is , then everyone should have a right that that decision be enforced until it is publicly disavowed in the same way .
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