Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five B status would not of course been allowed if this Committee been sitting . |
| 2 | Finally , implications for future practice are discussed and some ways forward are proposed as a result . |
| 3 | A social institution is ‘ legitimate ’ if it is perceived as morally justified ; the problem with the penal system is that this perception is lacking and many people inside and outside the system believe that it is morally indefensible , or at least defective . |
| 4 | Theft is excluded but this policy would cover damage caused by attempted theft . |
| 5 | The objective of the national facilities programme is to ensure that each sport — if appropriate — has access to at least one venue suitable for the staging of international events and for national squad training . |
| 6 | But the Corporation said : ‘ Its future is assured and these stories are absolute rubbish . ’ |
| 7 | Research is showing that many animals actually do possess a sixth sense but this is a natural " supersense " , rather than anything supernatural . |
| 8 | Research is showing that many animals respond to other weather cues . |
| 9 | Philippa Russell 's chapter reviews a wide spectrum of ideas and work , but it is clear that disability is an area in which much more research is needed and that policy and practice should both be reviewed in the light of such research as it becomes available . |
| 10 | The object of this chapter is to consider whether this assessment is accurate . |
| 11 | The objective of a phase II type study is to determine whether this procedure is a useful addition to those already available for treating gall stones . |
| 12 | The force is pushing that that way , that way . |
| 13 | One critical step in overcoming the culture gap is to ensure that all partners share at the outset a common understanding of the innovation process , their respective roles within it , and how it applies to the particular topic being addressed . |
| 14 | Moreover , the effect is perpetuated as each birth cohort advances up the age scale , especially if its mortality rate is greater or less than that of previous cohorts . |
| 15 | However , the NFU and the SLF said their members were seriously concerned at the lack of a requirement for water authorities to seek a way-leave , particularly if the industry is privatised and any work carried out on private land would result in increased profits for the water company without its having to pay anything for the rights to gain access . |
| 16 | ( The alternative is to guess that some training examples are erroneous , and leave them out of the training set . ) |
| 17 | It was suggested , for example , that stock was over-valued and that credit notes due to customers had been understated with the effect that whereas the accounts as published had reported profits of £1.3m , they should have reported a loss of approximately £400,000 . |
| 18 | Earlier this year the World Food Programme was reckoning that some 5m people were at risk of famine in the north of the country ; if so , some 1.2m tonnes of grain would be needed to feed them , of which a bit over half has been pledged by donors . |
| 19 | A specific complex was observed when this oligonucleotide was incubated with whole cell extract from rat cerebellum ( Fig. 2A ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Severe disruption was caused and many hours spent needlessly . ’ |
| 21 | The division between open and closed villages was not always as clear-cut as this may imply — many villages lay somewhere between the two — and it was less extensive in the upland areas where less labour was employed and more workers ‘ lived in ’ on the farms . |
| 22 | When the facts became known through contact established with the Curator of the New Mills Heritage Centre , some action was taken and all Mackie Memorial Library books that could be found in local bookshops were bought back by the Derbyshire authorities . |
| 23 | Here the confusions or uncertainties are the point of the passage : it does n't matter that the particulars of the caption are missing since this sort of thing was always happening . |
| 24 | Two systems for engineering a ‘ human ’ insulin were developed and most patients have been switched to these engineered products . |
| 25 | When a course is developed by a consortium the work is shared and each centre gets the benefit of its partners ' experience . |
| 26 | To reflect society can only mean comedy , in such a world , if a work is to convince as any sort of mirror , and the preference of other nations for melodrama and the bleeding heart has nothing to do with the habitual temper of British life . |
| 27 | In this context the portentous dream is used as another example of the superstition of antiquity , rather than a statement of current belief . |
| 28 | The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ . |
| 29 | The role of internal audit is to ensure that these arrangements are implemented and that they remain satisfactory . |
| 30 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |