Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a customer was unaware of the need to provide variation margin from time to time and had insufficient available funds to meet margin calls , then he may be forced to liquidate his position at a loss even though , had the contract been allowed to run to maturity , it may have closed at a profit . |
| 2 | All applicants for the degree course are required to demonstrate by audition a performance standard approximately equal to that required for grade eight on an instrument ( or voice ) , and preferably should have some experience in keyboard playing ( equivalent to grade three ) . |
| 3 | Programmes of study are offered leading to Diploma , to the Degree of Master of Urban and Regional Planning , or to the research degrees of MPhil and PhD of Heriot-Watt University . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the shooting and budget on the movie were starting to go over schedule , forcing UA seriously to contemplate not sinking any more money into the production . |
| 5 | Four models of the CsA/CyP complex were reported based on X-ray and NMR data . |
| 6 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 7 | The embarrassing fact is that , to secure this bizarre deal , the department is having to pay for material not yet produced , because Dungeness B was so late in coming on-stream . |
| 8 | When pressed by Jeremy Corbyn ( Labour ) about the department 's perceived shift towards means-testing and away from the universality he replied this was expected as the Labour party was also re-examining its commitment to universality — as John Smith has said ‘ nothing was ruled out and nothing was ruled in ’ . |
| 9 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 10 | The research is intended to explore in detail different type of impairment affecting visual recognition after brain injury , and their implications for understanding the organisation of the visual recognition system . |
| 11 | The rule is expected to come into force in 1988 when post-1939 buildings will become eligible for the first time . |
| 12 | The reorganization is expected to go into effect on 1 October pending congressional approval of the internal transfer of funds . |
| 13 | The group activities ensure that each phase of the ceremony is performed according to tradition . |
| 14 | Modern scholarship is beginning to bring to attention traditions of piety , particularly that of women , in Europe from the twelfth century onwards , which are significant for the understanding of medieval English mysticism . |
| 15 | If whole blood is allowed to clot before separation of the serum , early post-implantation rat embryos suffer a higher incidence of abnormalities and reduced growth ( 21 ) . |
| 16 | He had wanted this change , not least because he felt that the rural Church was being neglected , that progressive Church thinking was forgetting to take into account that huge section of the population whose rhythms were dictated by quite other influences than urban ones . |
| 17 | As a departure from the usual , the IBOA President was requested to speak in recognition of the fact that the IBOA has , after several years , again a President domiciled in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | At baseline , the renin component characteristics in the studied subjects were consistent with those depicted in other studies : active renin concentration was normal , but prorenin concentration was raised according to retinopathy . |
| 19 | According to official messages , the ‘ modernisers ’ still had the upper hand and the reform programme was set to continue in spite of the economic and social problems which had troubled the leaders throughout 1988 . |
| 20 | The weight was found buried in sediment from Fraser Island , off the coast of Queensland . |
| 21 | The car was found abandoned in west Belfast the following day . |
| 22 | The principle of orality was considered to contribute to unanimity in decision making because of the thorough sifting and testing of argument in unrestricted oral argument . |
| 23 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 24 | The tape was discovered hidden among luggage and files belonging to Spiro , three miles from where his body was found in the California desert . |
| 25 | The Cabinet accepted the recommendation that a substantial British aircraft industry was required to hold off competition , and should be developed with more than just the Empire in mind ; also the premise that work on new aircraft should proceed under government direction , with the Treasury accepting responsibility for new types . |
| 26 | This situation has arisen because restrictions were not introduced years ago when , using a great deal of public money , the industry was encouraged to expand without control . |
| 27 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 28 | Also in the series are An Uncommon Murder , which tells how an East End Jewish refugee was found battered to death on Clapham Common , and the story of Louise Masset , the first woman to be hanged this century after she was accused of killing her young son . |
| 29 | On the fifth day of mobilisation , Lieut-Colonel Deyns was able to report that the Field Ambulance was equipped according to scale , and ready to move . |
| 30 | UNEP ( ibid. ) shows that all classes of cropland are predicted to increase in area up to the end of the millennium , but that large quantities of land ( most certainly concentrated in marginal environments ) will lose productive capacity . |