Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five acts are booked to do seven minutes each and no one does a spot shorter than 15 . |
| 2 | To raise revenue ; the annual Finance Acts are passed to give legislative authority to the Chancellor 's Budget . |
| 3 | The use of strategies such as ‘ party penetration ’ , where politically chosen personnel are appointed to key organizational positions to prevent any frustration of party policy by unsympathetic or parochial bureaucrats , is only one example . |
| 4 | HMIs are allowed to inspect any school , private as well as maintained , and all colleges of further and higher education maintained by LEAs or receiving money from public funds , but not universities ( except by invitation ) . |
| 5 | The Hochland colours of red and green are shown here in conjunction with a black plume — the colours of plumes and ribbons are used to indicate individual regiments . |
| 6 | Before obtaining that tax credit it is necessary that trust tax returns are submitted detailing all sources of trust income and payments to beneficiaries and that the additional rate of 10 per cent is paid by the trustees ( ESC B18 ) . |
| 7 | If Japanese accounts are redrawn using American methods , the p/e ratios fall by 30–50% . |
| 8 | Their accounts are prepared using accrual-type concepts . |
| 9 | States are expected to submit annual reports on issues such as pollution control , biodiversity conservation , trends in health , poverty and population . |
| 10 | In this the Commission is charged with keeping all State aids under continuous review , and member states are required to provide prior notification of any plans to grant or to alter aid . |
| 11 | Clearly the President 's enemies are itching to believe unsubstantiated stories that could hurt him . |
| 12 | Governments ' policies are beginning to reflect that fact . |
| 13 | All too often , policies are introduced to solve particular problems of the day . |
| 14 | First , the discussion of policy making in the later part of the last chapter suggested that many new initiatives stem from the recognition that older policies are failing to meet desired goals . |
| 15 | Less than ten kilograms are needed to make one bomb , but a large reactor can produce many thousand kilos in its lifetime . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think a few crocuses in Hyde Park are going to make much difference , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 17 | Two separate operations are needed to normalise this sentence , one involving closed set items : |
| 18 | More than ever before , imagination , insight , understanding of new media and enthusiasm for the processes of ongoing change are going to become essential ingredients to effective librarianship . |
| 19 | Particular skills and attitudes are needed to make voluntary agreements workable and fair . |
| 20 | Other electrical frequencies are known to have specific effects on the body . |
| 21 | Those projects are expected to create 1,294 jobs . |
| 22 | Various strategies are developed to handle potential conflicts that can not be overcome because people keep meeting each other . |
| 23 | The differences between the Spanish and British cases are used to highlight these processes . |
| 24 | Although only the Commission can grant an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) , the domestic courts are empowered to enjoin any party from infringing Article 85 . |
| 25 | This is so because , if courts are empowered to make authoritative determinations of the fact that a rule has been broken , these can not avoid being taken as authoritative determinations of what the rules are . |
| 26 | A major exception to the principle of proportionality relates to the sentencing of offenders for violent and sexual offences , in respect of whom courts are empowered to pass longer sentences than are ‘ commensurate ’ if they consider it necessary ‘ to protect the public from serious harm from the offender ’ ( section 2(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 27 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 28 | One photographic technique , called photogrammetry , is sometimes used to supplement or even replace plans by taking vertical photographs of the site from a constant height , in much the same way as maps are produced using aerial photography . |
| 29 | Because the Treasury wants to have the final say on all public spending , however financed , each year 's chunk of ERDF cash is merely regarded as one source of finance for the total that authorities are permitted to spend each year . |
| 30 | Local authorities are required to take reasonable steps to ascertain entitlement to discount , but in the absence of firm information they can send out an undiscounted bill . |