Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was followed by a second resolution , proposed by Dent ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) and seconded by J Paul ( Ayrshire ) to the effect : That the matter of this Association be referred to a special committee consisting of the President of this Conference ( the Rev W B Sleight ) as Chairman , and twelve gentlemen ( six deaf and dumb and six hearing ) . |
| 2 | Style may crystallize into persona and persona be understood as a public presentation of a particular type of social being . |
| 3 | The EC has adopted the Report 's proposals that member countries ' currencies be replaced by a single European currency and that a European Central Bank , with responsibility for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies , be established . |
| 4 | It is hard to imagine Greeks letting basic decisions about their future be taken by a European parliament that would be about 97% non-Greek . |
| 5 | Working with a different pianist each night provided an infinite variety of the best and worst musicians in the country , and among the best were the few who listened with a different ear , who could lose the rest of the world and let voice and instrument be controlled by a joint spirit . |
| 6 | Right , so where would the car be travelling in a southward direction ? |
| 7 | Once a control contract has been entered into , the dominant undertaking and the public company will in effect be treated as a single entity . |
| 8 | Whatever view he decides to take , he will in effect be indicating in a clear and unequivocal way the weight that should be attached to the objective of long term landscape protection which is so central to the purposes of National Park designation . |
| 9 | The better known end-Cretaceous extinction event can in many respects be considered as a mere temporary setback in this very dramatic faunal change . |
| 10 | How could all the data be integrated into a single publication ? |
| 11 | Early in 1966 President Johnson ordered that the bombing of the North be resumed after a temporary pause . |
| 12 | Should n't people of all races and nationalities be welcomed by a caring country ? ’ |
| 13 | At what point after this panel finishes sitting then will the issue be discussed in a public forum of this type , or is Mr Wincup saying the County Council can of itself determine that issue without further public examination . |
| 14 | I move that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the sixteenth of July be signed as a correct record . |
| 15 | Political , cultural and labour organizations had reportedly demanded that the conflict between the executive and the legislature be settled by a national referendum . |
| 16 | Could fragrance be vibrating at a similar frequency to that of spirit ? |
| 17 | How could Yorkshire be placed in a different regional banding structure from the one that applies in my constituency ? |
| 18 | How could a Prime Minister who gave voice to such sentiments be regarded as a political figure in his own right ? |
| 19 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 20 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 21 | As an educational tool , simulation is not only an invaluable training aid for personnel who may one day be confronted with a real situation but is sometimes the only method for dealing with improbable but possible events . |
| 22 | Verrill ( 1899 ) proposed that Ophiomyces and Ophiotholia be segregated as a separate family and Fell ( 1960 ) suggested that if Verrill 's proposal is valid then Ophiothauma should be included . |
| 23 | The court can waive any requirement to serve a document or direct that service be effected in a particular manner ( FPCR , r4(8) ; FPR , r4.4(8) ) . |
| 24 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
| 25 | Dave Rosenthal of Edinburgh University chaired the BSI committee that recommended GKS be adopted as a British Standard . |
| 26 | Will their rights be transferred to a commercial company or will some other arrangement be made through the Government or CalMac ? |
| 27 | The Trust will on occasion be faced with a Wordsworthian dilemma over the degree to which it should promote some of its more sensitive properties , but the commitment to providing welcoming access for its members and visitors is an unwavering one . |
| 28 | How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it ? |
| 29 | How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it ? |
| 30 | Can the relationship be summarized as a straight line or will it need a curve ? |