Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For more on how these roles can be blended into a successful group , see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 .
2 Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education .
3 In addition , involvement of major neurovascular structures and bone can also be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy .
4 The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development .
5 Here , the therapist is looking for maladaptive coping strategies which can be altered at a later date in homework assignments .
6 I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war .
7 Variation was entirely random , and each population evolved in response to purely local environmental pressures , which could be altered in an unpredictable way by migration or geological changes .
8 Thus output might be altered by a technological breakthrough , or by changes in the structure of taxation which affected the choice between work and leisure , or by changes in other real variables , but should not be affected by a change in nominal spending : such changes should affect the price at which the available output is sold and not the quantity of output itself .
9 If there is a steady downward drift in the average temperature in the area , a drift that persists over centuries , successive generations of animals will be propelled by a steady selection ‘ pressure ’ in the direction , say , of growing longer coats of hair .
10 The boxes both have six SIMM slots and can be incremented to a maximum 96Mb. +1 408 432–0292
11 The trouble with nuclear power is that its ‘ costs ’ always have the potential to go well beyond the point where they can be factored into an environmental bill .
12 Search for a peptide was rewarded by the discovery of a compound containing five amino acids , which combined powerfully with the opiate receptor and had all the necessary properties for it to be recognized as a new transmitter substance .
13 This is in the hope that they will become clearer to those who work within the industry , and that they may be recognized as a distinct discipline by academic and practising lawyers alike .
14 The burrow caused by Sarcoptes scabiei can be recognized as a thin line , not unlike a small splinter , in one of the sites which the mite is known to favour .
15 Metaphase 1 ( M1 ) is the stage of meiosis used in routine analysis for the establishment of bivalent number , chiasma frequency or position , and for the detection of a chromosomal anomaly such as a reciprocal translocation which can be recognized as a multivalent configuration in the complement .
16 Coaching is also beginning to be recognized as an essential tool which has to be developed systematically , not left to chance or the interest of a few concerned managers .
17 In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before .
18 In fact , our research shows that sensitivity needs to emerge from the shadows and be recognized as an important problem in research .
19 It is good that the demanding job of running hostels for the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped , together with other provision of residential care , should now be recognized as an important aspect of social work , for much needs to be done in this field and many able people need to be recruited for the work .
20 A tenth of those questioned thought that Hitler was the greatest statesman of the century , whose true greatness would only be recognized at a later date , and a further 22 per cent thought that , while he had made ‘ some mistakes ’ he had nevertheless been an excellent head of State .
21 In January 1973 the Scottish Education Department , on behalf of the four Central ( Art ) Institutions , formally approached the CNAA with a proposal for their Associateship and Diploma courses to be recognized for a classified degree in art and design .
22 Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) .
23 Each of these can be recognized by a common pattern of internal structure , all the individual species within a type being but variations on the same basic pattern .
24 This is achieved by the bidder procuring the target to be re-registered as a private company and taking advantage of the private company exemption contained in s155. ( 3 ) To save stamp duty .
25 ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed .
26 As of now , IBM Corp is offering an anti-virus service to its UK customers : this comprises updates to anti-virus programs four times a year — these provide users with ‘ install-and-forget ’ automatic protection on MS-DOS , OS/2 and Microsoft Corp 's Windows operating systems , and can detect viruses in the memory , on floppy and hard disks ; if viruses are found in the memory , they are disabled , but if found on disks the user is given a recommended course of action on-line ; other services consist of detection tools for any new viruses ; access to an anti-virus bulletin board , from which the latest products and documentation can be downloaded ; phone support desk ; and customer alert service to forewarn of known or threatened virus outbreaks ; prices will be amended on an annual basis , but for one to 250 machines , the service is £1,000 , on 3,001 to 5,000 workstations it is £12,000 .
27 One Minister comments : Why did I go to York on October 3 to be recommissioned as a Eucharistic Minister ?
28 The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th .
29 Asif and Trevor Penney , the newly-qualified Zimbabwean , will be competing for a middle-order place , though the first chance is likely to go to Paul Smith if he has shaken off last year 's injury troubles .
30 The Alvington entry will be competing in a new class for slightly modified production models , hoping to head off the Jaguars and Porsches when the race gets underway on June the 19th .
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