Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The club 's new owners , Biomass are said to want a change in management style . |
| 2 | Disorders of colonic motility are thought to play a part in several diseases , especially the irritable bowel syndrome , and also ulcerative colitis , diverticular disease , and constipation . |
| 3 | The indicators which vary most with income are used to create a summary index of standard of living , using principal component analysis for specific household types and for all household types . |
| 4 | I do not deal with the equally hard problem of the patient who is admitted unconscious to hospital after a suicide attempt , where the doctrines of implied consent or necessity are used to justify a doctor in treating him . |
| 5 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 6 | Benefits from lower raw material prices and the falling pound are expected to provide a boost on top of the move into higher-margin chemical materials in the United States . |
| 7 | Benefits from lower raw material prices and the falling pound are expected to provide a boost on top of the move into higher-margin chemical materials in the United States . |
| 8 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 9 | The cases used in this study were selected to include a range of primary sites and were not true cases of metastasis of unknown origin . |
| 10 | The areas chosen for the study were selected to provide a comparison in geography , climate , soil type , farming enterprises , size of units , full-time family farmers and part-time farmers , types of off-farm employment and suitable contrast with equivalent situations in the three European countries . |
| 11 | If the minister of religion is required to conduct a service , the family or funeral director arrange this . |
| 12 | This line of reasoning is intended to provide a means for felicitous plural and singular pronominal reference under appropriate circumstances . |
| 13 | Environmentalists fear that the programme is designed to conceal a retreat from a campaign pledge made by President Clinton to increase average fuel efficiency required by law to 40 mpg by 2000 and 45 mpg by 2015 , which has been fiercely resisted by car companies . |
| 14 | But this bodpod is designed to solve a down to earth problem … how to fit six people into a car designed for five . |
| 15 | In addition to deciding whether such phenomena really are characteristic of some particular identifiable driving state further research is needed to decide a variety of questions , for example : Do such experiences depend on the driver being tired ? |
| 16 | Above all , however , this chapter is intended to begin a debate about the methodological and theoretical influence upon research of ‘ sensitivity ’ , whether deriving from the sensitivity of the topic , its location , or both . |
| 17 | The set of general criteria generated in the first part of this chapter is intended to provide a framework of maximum support for this style of education . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is valuable to emphasise the impetus itself , particularly if a bravura pirouette is needed to display a dancer 's particular expertise or perhaps some exhibitionist trait in the character portrayed . |
| 19 | This study is designed to provide a means of testing , refining , and developing theories about football hooliganism on the basis of empirical data that are being collected by the techniques of social anthropology . |
| 20 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 21 | The ‘ Functional Approach ’ : There are fewer though more frequent harvests , with less replication and an attempt is made to fit a function to the data . |
| 22 | Scorpion is said to outperform a SparcStation 2 by a factor of between 12 and 15 times . |
| 23 | The hotelier is required to keep a record of this information which is open to inspection by the police for a period of up to twelve months . |
| 24 | Each applicant is asked to supply a portfolio of work at interview . |
| 25 | The 63-year-old Oscar winning actress is expected to spend a week in hospital after Sunday 's operation on the tumour , which may be cancerous . |
| 26 | THE beleaguered bloodstock industry is set to receive a Budget boost tomorrow . |
| 27 | According to these authors , when the interval between successive lights in such a set-up is around 150 millisec. , a single light is seen to describe a circle . |
| 28 | If the logarithmic term is expanded using a Taylor series : but truncated after the squared term , assuming φ 2 is small , then , |
| 29 | The encoder is set to generate a position pulse corresponding to a 0° switching angle and this pulse is fed back directly to the phase excitation circuit , when the appropriate position is reached during the first step . |
| 30 | To start with , WorldSource will simply enable a multinational to call its offices abroad more easily by eliminating technical disparities that arise when more than one carrier is needed to complete a call . |