Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main tasks of such an authority would be to issue contracts for the performance of particular tasks coupled with supervisory and inspection to ensure that they were adequately performed . |
| 2 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 3 | The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely next parliamentary session . |
| 4 | The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely in the next parliamentary session . |
| 5 | During the following two days , a flint knapper will be crafting tools among the castle 's prehistoric displays , and on June 4 and 5 the museum 's Spitting Image-style puppet Bulbus Ludicrus , the Roman legionary , will again be in residence . |
| 6 | ‘ But with the deflated pound giving the big-spending Germans more pocket money , it could be raining pfennigs from heaven . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Bishop said that the ACCA was in the process of looking at the job 's terms of reference within the context of the ACCA 's future strategy and would be contacting headhunters shortly . |
| 8 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
| 9 | On 6 January 1991 , the inspector swore an affidavit indicating that he would be submitting papers to the Board with a view to issuing a notice . |
| 10 | Hard work , but worth it for the feeling that you might be helping producers to realise that there is a discerning market out there , and not one that reacts blindly to the word ‘ organic ’ . |
| 11 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 12 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 13 | Where obviously inadequate parenting occurs , the response of the statutory services in most cases should be to support parents and help improve their parenting , whilst keeping the child within the family . |
| 14 | Again , if you 're going to be using notes , you do n't want to be talking down to a table , so think about whether you 're s you 're going to , in your practising , are you going to let your eyes flick down to your notes that 're on the paper , on the table , or are you gon na pick them up ? |
| 15 | The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries . |
| 16 | The activity had been planned so that when children helped one another they would be using principles applied in problem-solving on one of the tasks and applying them in a new form on the other . |
| 17 | ‘ I am beginning to think we should be using kayaks after all . ’ |
| 18 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 19 | In some magazines they ask men to fill in questionnaires about beauty , and loads of men seem to be using cleansers and having facials . |
| 20 | While the parent television company has experienced serious delays with the supply of a vital set of electronic chips made by ITT , Datavision will be using chips made by Philips of the Netherlands and Plessey of the UK . |
| 21 | The Shamen , former Syd Barrett-fixated indie support rockers ( with dodgy oilslide'n'light shows in between ) , are now techno-guerrillas working towards the Synergy ideal of the all-live club , where DJs wo n't even be using records , where the environment itself is being scratch-mixed to audience requirements . |
| 22 | Hewlett-Packard Co has licensed the Veritas File System , intending to offer it with HP-UX : Veritas Inc is making the file system , VxFS , compatible with the Distributed File System in the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment : it is also planning to deliver a multiprocessing version of VxFS ; Hewlett will be using Veritas as both its base file system and in Distributed Computing Environments , and it says that it will have the multiprocessing version available in early 1994 . |
| 23 | You should n't be using scissors . " |
| 24 | Because most of our readers will be using libraries that have adopted this system , fuller details are given below , together with a brief description of the Universal Decimal Classification , which is based on the Dewey system . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you be using words like that in front of them children , ’ she instructed him fiercely . |
| 26 | ‘ If you happen to be using animals , this is like a kick in the teeth ’ , says one . |
| 27 | In a new survey of the industry he said : ‘ Housebuilders appear to be using techniques to remove unsold homes from their balance sheets , including ‘ selling ’ houses to associate companies . |
| 28 | Whilst the nationalised industries appear similar to private manufacturing industry , employers in public administration are more likely to be using workers hired on fixed-term contracts . |
| 29 | I think the problem here is that others , obviously banks and other industries , will be using computers and there will be a tendency then for people , when things go wrong or when they do n't understand , to become further removed from the technology . |
| 30 | It 's very important , I think , that erm you match the age of the child to the age which is written on the box , because then the child will actually be handling materials that he can physically handle and ideas that he can physically cope with or intellectually cope with . |