Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [vb pp] [conj] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
6 | Considerable progress has been made but a number of fundamental issues are still with us . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It is only after much empirical data has been collected and a series of simple relationships , close to reality , have been established , that either precise hypotheses can be enunciated for testing or theory derived inductively from empirical data . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | It has been said that a devaluation would result in even higher interest rates . |
16 | It has been said that a person is judged by the company he keeps . |
17 | Cobenzl has been announced and a Cobenzl will go . " |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | I dare say many an exquisite new dish has been created because a cook made a mistake while trying to follow a recipe . |
21 | An RAF pilot has been killed and a woman civilian seriously injured in an air crash . |
22 | A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick . |
23 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | A white Sierra has been recovered and a man arrested . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The title of the Institute and corporate members has been reviewed and following a consultation exercise with members the decision has been taken that a change would be inappropriate . |
28 | The old yellow smiley badge of the Seventies has been resurrected and a message of harmony , sincere or otherwise , prevails . |
29 | Your ability to write and argue is of little avail if you get your facts wrong , fail to find the relevant authorities , rely on a statute that has been superseded or a case that has been overruled , or simply misunderstand the authorities . |
30 | It has been suggested that a London equalisation scheme could be brought back . |