Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH has been invited to join a consortium run by Societe Francaise du Radiotelephone SA which will build a rival mobile data network ; its Mannesmann Eurocom GmbH unit will have a stake of about 10% . |
| 2 | The HERMS file structure has been arranged to store a minimum of data whilst yielding the maximum information . |
| 3 | This paper has been written to provide a background for students ( of all ages ) seeking to interpret the results of a shore survey or planning a rocky shore project . |
| 4 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 5 | Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris has been appointed to lead a panel reviewing France 's effort against AIDS . |
| 6 | I will be visiting Community and Recreational Arts in Barnet in March , where I will have the pleasure of attending the official opening of the Tedder lounge , which has been extended to include a wheelchair accessible art room . |
| 7 | According to the NRA , the net present value of the damage that would be caused by flooding , and hence the benefit accruing , has been calculated using a number of variables , and generally lies between £41 million and £69 million . |
| 8 | Since April 1988 the size of the budget for each school has been calculated using a formula ( based mainly on age-weighted pupil units ) rather than the use of historical costs . |
| 9 | An attempt has been made to submit a Design Change ( DC ) which references modules to which the submitter does not have access to . |
| 10 | Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify that the general should be a particular Orc or Goblin warlord , the chieftain of a powerful tribe , or any given individual . |
| 11 | Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify whether this is the Emperor , an Elector Count , the Reiksmarshall of the Reiksguard , or whoever — any of these individuals can and have taken command of Imperial armies during the history of the Empire . |
| 12 | Philip Tickner reported on planning applications , saying that the request to convert a barn at Pingleston into part living accommodation had been refused , and that application has been made to replace a bungalow at Godsfield , with a four bedroomed house . |
| 13 | Western technology has been made to assume a burden which it can not fairly be expected to carry . |
| 14 | An attempt has been made to achieve a balance between the late Victorian building and the eighteenth-century style necessary for the exhibits ; specially woven blue Lyons silk is used in combination with faux marbre skirting boards and appropriately designed display cabinets . |
| 15 | In spite of specialization , the general outline of the discovery of many recent drugs is remarkably similar and indeed has been said to follow a text-book pattern . |
| 16 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 17 | IBM has been trying to negotiate a deal with the Open Software Foundation to buy outright re-distribution rights to an OSF/1 single server running under Mach 3.0 on PS/2s . |
| 18 | Branco Babic has been trying to find a manufacturer who 's interested in the possibilities of strawcrete for the past two years . |
| 19 | In the UK , SAS has been trying to build a relationship with ICL plc for the last three or four years — with little success . |
| 20 | She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to . |
| 21 | It can hardly be one 's fault if one has been preordained to rob a bank . |
| 22 | Initially conceived as an attempt to study the relative effectiveness of specialist and generic team organization , the focus has been broadened to encompass a range of wider and sometimes cross-cutting organizational variables . |
| 23 | Because of these shortages , much research has been undertaken to produce a fat with cocoa butter properties . |
| 24 | A new dance company has been formed to give a boost to the performing arts outside London . |
| 25 | The riverside warehouses of the London docklands have become favourite subjects for this treatment during the last decade and an outstanding conversion of one such building — Thames Tunnel Mills — is described in this chapter , while the final chapter of the book contains an analysis of a similar building that has been converted to house a range of new uses , including sixty apartments . |
| 26 | The development of a spatially related designing system has been seen to provide a basis for the understanding and evaluation of most engineering assembly problems . |
| 27 | Erm just to say that , just to confirm the note sent round that erm we will only pay for any photographic services by Intercity East Coast if it has been procured using a task request form in accordance with the same way we procure any other internal B R er service . |
| 28 | My lunch has been planned to allow a morning spent at church , hunting for Easter eggs or admiring the daffodils . |
| 29 | The series has been planned to provide a resource for Local Education Authority ( LEA ) advisers , specialist teachers from all sectors of the education service , educational psychologists , and teacher working parties . |
| 30 | The firm , which is now part of GEC-Marconi Avionics , has been selected to develop a laser warner system for the European Fighter Aircraft , Eurofighter 2000 . |