Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail are to develop an electric version of the 200 km/h high-speed train ( HST ) , which runs its Inter-City 125 services . |
| 2 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |
| 3 | ‘ The board are extending a long-standing by-law which prevents a player who has rejected an international invitation from performing at club level during the summer period , ’ said Ashby . |
| 4 | The main objects of this alignment are to achieve a short wheel base , and a fairly steep gradient . |
| 5 | A FAMILY who discovered that their centuries-old manor stands over ‘ the lost palace ’ of the last Welsh prince are fighting a desperate battle to keep their home . |
| 6 | QUEEN Elizabeth Country Park are presenting an all day lecture on the Attractions of East Hampshire . |
| 7 | In the USA , Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Rochester University are following an alternative approach called ‘ inertial fusion ’ where the deuterium and tritium fuel is in a small glass bubble which is momentarily blasted by powerful lasers , but here too practical economic fusion seems to be years in the future , and some 700 million dollars may be needed to upgrade the facility and keep the research moving forward . |
| 8 | Recreational projects such as the development of watersports on estuaries and industrial work including mineral and peat extraction are having an increasing impact on the environment . |
| 9 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
| 10 | The Midlands club are giving a two-week trial next month to South Africa 's top player , Doctor Kumalo , a midfielder with Kaiser Chiefs . |
| 11 | Frankly I do n't believe that households in which one parent spends all his waking moments either out of the house or refitting the patio doors or under the bonnet of a car are doing a better job than I am , where the kids are concerned , but I have n't got any statistics to prove it . |
| 12 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 13 | THREE members of Group Internal Audit Department are pioneering a Royal Bank scheme to create its own banker-accountants . |
| 14 | Friends and relatives of a man who was found dead in a prison cell are demanding a full investigation into his death . |
| 15 | The people there are that 's going to the neighbourhood are getting a fair crack of the whip and they 're being the centre of that every week . |
| 16 | People whose lives have been devastated by crime are backing a fund-raising appeal to help others who 've suffered as they have . |
| 17 | Labour are fielding a strong candidate in Alan Milburn . |
| 18 | All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority . |
| 19 | If Congress and the administration are to avoid a head-on clash , and a presidential veto , a compromise must be struck . |
| 20 | The Government 's initiatives on rough sleeping are having a marked effect on the problem in London . |
| 21 | It is not surprising then that school plays ( ‘ theatre ’ ) must in practice be given a low priority . |
| 22 | The home side were lacking a key bowler too , in seamer Willie Watson , whose absence with a thigh strain was to prove a chronic handicap to Crowe . |
| 23 | The article went on to say that staff employed in the tourist industry were getting a raw deal , and that the government should take a hard line and introduce new legislation on taxation for the hotel industry . |
| 24 | The Professional Footballers ' Association were offered an improved percentage of television revenue after a 3½-hour meeting in London . |
| 25 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 26 | He said that the main objectives of the programme were to achieve an annual growth rate of 3-5 per cent ; to reduce the annual rate of inflation to 3.6 per cent per annum by 1995 and to reduce the country 's external debt . |
| 27 | His face and neck were burnt a dark-scarlet colour and patches had peeled , exposing bright pink lesions underneath , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 28 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 29 | It would undoubtedly be of great benefit to future scholars working in this field if the College were to create a central repository of classified material on a sector of education of which it is , after all , a not insignificant part . |
| 30 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |