Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [vb pp] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court .
2 At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information .
3 This problem has been recognised and a variety of methods have been instituted in an attempt to avoid it .
4 When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face .
5 For example , we regard the two processes unc as equivalent , even though they have different possible behaviours once the refusal of " d " has been observed and an input has been made on channel c .
6 The plight of woodlands in Wales has been analysed and a publicity drive during 1985 is aimed at stimulating interest in protecting and enhancing woodlands throughout the Principality .
7 Considerable progress has been made but a number of fundamental issues are still with us .
8 Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning .
9 However , where there has been a contested hearing and : ( 1 ) a money judgment payable in one lump sum is ordered , the debt is registered only when the judgment creditor takes steps to enforce it , or issues an oral examination ; ( 2 ) a money judgment ( payable in one lump sum or by instalments ) including an order for costs to be taxed is entered , registration is effected on completion of taxation ; ( 3 ) an application for new trial has been made or an appeal lodged with the Court of Appeal , registration is effected when the new trial ( if ordered ) or appeal have been disposed of .
10 A desk study to establish a basic structural and stratigraphic framework for the UK sector of the Rockall continental margin has been made and a work programme including the acquisition of data has been designed .
11 How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival .
12 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
13 It has been argued that a State may intervene , even forcibly , in the affairs of another State without violating Article 2 ( 4 ) of the United Nations Charter , or the norm of non-intervention where the intervention is justified on humanitarian grounds , for example to stop gross violations of human rights .
14 The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building .
15 Thus , it has been argued that a set of at least tacit beliefs that underlay aesthetic modernism also underlay the birth of classical sociological theory in the work of Weber , Simmel , and Durkheim .
16 It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates .
17 It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps .
18 It has been said that an order of mandamus ought not to he made if the respondent is doing all it reasonably can to remedy its breach of duty .
19 There are two types of patentable invention , a product invention and a process invention , and it has been said that an invention is a new way of making something old or an old way of making something new .
20 Cobenzl has been announced and a Cobenzl will go . "
21 Much outrage has been expressed that a charity should be asked to sponsor the wine at dinner , for example , ( £1,000 plus VAT ) for a lot of highly paid public and private sector bigwigs .
22 So far it has been seen that a manager may help the advisers cope with pressure by encouraging social policy work in order to remove persistent client problems ; by training directed at problem management or interview management or by assigning a support role to a member of the team .
23 With all this in mind , the point of the argument has been reached where an attempt can be made to move towards an integration of the behavioural and strategic perspectives of corporate resource allocation .
24 When a policy limit has been reached and an excess applies , the following procedure should be adopted .
25 I dare say many an exquisite new dish has been created because a cook made a mistake while trying to follow a recipe .
26 An RAF pilot has been killed and a woman civilian seriously injured in an air crash .
27 A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick .
28 A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police .
29 A white Sierra has been recovered and a man arrested .
30 An AK47 assault rifle used in a number of murder bids has been recovered and a number of people are expected to face terrorist charges in the next few days .
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