Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 2 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
| 3 | ‘ We are are building democracy on a slippery surface , ’ says Mr Petr Pithart , the premier of the Czech lands ( Bohemia and Moravia ) . |
| 4 | Scientists from Nanjing Normal University are building display tanks and a semi-natural reserve in the form of a 1.5km ( 1-mile ) channel between two islands in the river at Tongling. further upstream , at Shi Shou , the Wuhan institute plans to adapt a 20-k ( 12-mile ) old oxbow in the river to become a reserve . |
| 5 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 6 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
| 7 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 8 | Studios have been raiding network archives , and versions of everything from The Flintstones , Bewitched , The Beverly Hillbillies and Car 54 , Where Are You to The Fugitive and The Saint are apparently in development . |
| 9 | Thieves have been raiding washing lines in Ripon . |
| 10 | I it 's not been examined sir , no . |
| 11 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 12 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ says Management B , ‘ I have n't really raised my prices ; I have actually produced what is a new and better article , so much better than those of my competitors that , although my price is much above theirs , I have full order books and the retailers tell me they are accumulating waiting lists . ’ |
| 13 | President , Congress , the ex er we believe the Executive are accepting motion two four three , but we believe it should be aired at Congress today . |
| 14 | How dare the Government say that they are going to improve patient care when they are wasting money so disgracefully in other parts of the health service ? |
| 15 | We are wasting time ! |
| 16 | And it is always us who are rowdies in the pub , who choke harbour fronts with gear , and are heard swearing and shouting among the seaside trippers — never the local yobs , is it . |
| 17 | But now it is individual skilled and managerial people ( plus entrepreneurs and self-employed ) who are relocating West ) . |
| 18 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 19 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 20 | It is no wonder that so many are dismissed pad/bat . |
| 21 | money , investment are proving sound , there is no need to worry about my expenditure |
| 22 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 23 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 24 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |
| 25 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 26 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 27 | " The keys are hidden -under a clump of yellow flag that grows by the river , and if you will follow me I will lead you to them . " |
| 28 | Formulations based on the principle of virtual work are given emphasis : conservative and non-conservative actions are carefully delineated and discussed in the context of discrete systems . |
| 29 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
| 30 | The Earth 's own magnetic field has a pulse frequency of 10 Hz ( 10 pulses/second ) and it has been found that if patients are placed in magnetic fields of around 10 Hz , or are given electro-acupuncture at 10 Hz , healing can be speeded up . |