Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no pot of gold for the big moto cross race of the weekend though … the Thamesdown club are staging the British round of the 250 cc World Championship at Foxhill Park at Wanborough … |
| 2 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 3 | The main objectives of this research are to estimate the total costs of operating the tax system ; to estimate the benefits accruing to businesses as a result of the operation of the system ( particularly cash flow benefits ) ; to compare costs of operating the main taxes ; and to identify areas of high compliance costs with a view to their reduction . |
| 4 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 5 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 6 | Environmentalists welcomed the move , claiming that some fishermen in Cornwall and the South-West were disguising the true extent of the problem . |
| 7 | The aims of this new coalition were to press the British government into acting more forcefully against terrorism and to force a return to something like the old majority rule at Stormont . |
| 8 | Both the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were to form the essential ingredients of the professional consensus which emerged in the years following the publication of the General Theory known as the neo-classical synthesis . |
| 9 | Whenever a new entry is created a row is inserted in this table and whenever an entry is discarded the appropriate row is deleted and a new row inserted in the Redundant Lemma table . |
| 10 | The contractor is to meet the full cost . |
| 11 | The Leader of the Commons , Tony Newton , said : ‘ Strathclyde fire brigade is investigating the full circumstances relating to the incident . |
| 12 | A common experiment is to measure the extensional modulus of a piece of wire , for example , and so to verify Hooke 's law . |
| 13 | The president is taking the key decision as to whether to increase his forces in the Gulf and to switch from a defensive to an offensive posture . |
| 14 | One approach to investigating Hymen 's characterization is to identify the other roles for male sopranos in Lully 's ballets in order to establish what kind of affect they may have had . |
| 15 | The overall result is to recall the layered effect of those rock formations which eternally hint at massive earthly movement , and yet the sculpture ‘ speaks ’ very much of human scale . |
| 16 | Part of a healthy weight loss programme is to get the nutritional balance right . |
| 17 | The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf . |
| 18 | The Royal Mail is commemorating the Roman era in Britain with a special set of stamps show artefacts from the years of Roman rule in England and Wales . |
| 19 | A more accurate method of measuring the efficiency of the sales department is to calculate the actual bed occupancy ( sleepers ) percentage . |
| 20 | A useful analogy is to imagine the local authority in the driving seat . |
| 21 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 22 | The egalitarian doctrine of the priesthood of all believers was intended to apply only to matters spiritual ; but it was Luther who pointed out , " When a priest is murdered the whole country is placed under interdict , " and asked , " Why not when a peasant is murdered ? " |
| 23 | One of the difficulties for the disciplined packer is choosing the right clothes for different trips . |
| 24 | The objective of this research is to examine the precise reasons for such developments , which include numerical flexibility ( part-time work , temporary work , overtime , shift-work and flexible working hours ) , functional flexibility ( varying the range of skills of individual workers ) , and distancing strategies ( sub-contracting work previously undertaken within the organisation ) . |
| 25 | This sits easily with the view summarised earlier that there are " facts " in the world , recorded in various ways , and the task of research is to gather the appropriate ones in light of the resources and circumstances affecting the particular research project . |
| 26 | A further important aim of the research is to use the new model to explain difficulties that children have in using language . |
| 27 | The research is reviewing the current state of empirical research in the United Kingdom , and elsewhere , into aspects of change in industrial societies . |
| 28 | The aim of the research is to identify the main characteristics of this occupational group as it is represented by the employees of The Alloa Brewery Company 's managed pubs and hotels in Scotland . |
| 29 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 30 | The hull is deliberately shaped so that as soon as it is put slightly off course the veer will increase and increase until the boat is facing the other way . |