Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , is my Noble Friend aware that many parents and teachers who have been deeply dissatisfied and disillusioned by local education authority schools in fact just set up their own new schools which are providing excellent education and really meeting those parental wishes , often with very strong er spiritual and moral values . |
| 2 | In his own words : I believe that it must be the policy of the USA to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure . |
| 3 | In other words you are putting undue strain on your machine . |
| 4 | Staw and Szwajkowski attempted to test the following hypothesis : ‘ when the organization is located within a scarce environment , one method of coping with intra- and extra-organizational demands may be to perform activities which are legally questionable … the more scarce the environment of a business organization , the more likely it will engage in activities which are considered unfair market practices or restraints of trade ’ ( 1975 : 346–47 ) . |
| 5 | The microeconomic imperfections which are given special attention are imperfect information ( eg firms ' inability to monitor accurately the productivities of their employees ) , imperfect competition ( eg collective bargaining ) , and various transactions costs ( eg the costs of hiring , training , and firing employees ) . |
| 6 | He created two competing monopolies which are causing considerable unrest within the industry . |
| 7 | These were the attitudes which were to gain official acceptance after the change in British Communist leadership in December 1929 . |
| 8 | Much of the stonework had become coated with a black layer of gypsum ( calcium sulphate ) and soot , while the lower levels of the façade are also affected by salt and nitrates which are causing severe damage . |
| 9 | These documents were later issued to bankers who are granting medium-term credit facilities to the authorities . |
| 10 | THE Road Haulage Association is warning about a team of bogus engineers who are contacting mobile phone users on the pretext of tracing and solving connection problems . |
| 11 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 12 | Over the next six months the Mappin will provide the necessary focus and space to deliberate and discuss some of the newly forged procedures and pleasures explored by the contemporary women artists who are reappropriating non-representational painting , drawing and installation work as a suitable form of creative expression . |
| 13 | Three subsequent laboratory studies , however , have failed to show any overall improvement in recognition sensitivity for films which were given high risk ratings . |
| 14 | An underground nuclear test in January 1989 near Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan ) sparked off local protests which were given formal support by the Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet in November . |
| 15 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 16 | Some of these people have not been baptized yet , others have , and some of them are already Catholics who are seeking full union with the Church through the sacrament of Confirmation . |
| 17 | Popular Unionist councillor Valerie Kinghan said local people were ‘ completely fed up ’ at the din from the gospellers who are using powerful amplification to put their message across . |
| 18 | The needs of applicants who are contemplating legal practice in England and Wales will generally be better met by studying in a university or college south of the border . |
| 19 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 20 | Whilst TechDoc is certainly one of the older and more established of these compartments it is undergoing rapid change as the vendors break away from the dedicated hardware platforms of their recent past . |
| 21 | Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering . |
| 22 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 23 | Preliminary work began last September following the appointment of two countryside officers who are employed full time on the project . |
| 24 | Thus situations which were given high accident estimates tended to show an improvement in memory when risk was experienced . |
| 25 | Numerous studies have found that patients who are given adequate information by doctors , nurses and midwives are both more satisfied with their medical care and more compliant . |
| 26 | Early postoperative complications were negligible , while three patients who were circumcised required reoperation for haemorrhage . |
| 27 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 28 | Among the 439 patients who were given para-aortic irradiation , 6 developed secondary gastric carcinoma ( 2.4% 15-year cumulative incidence rate ) , by contrast with no gastric carcinomas in 453 patients not treated with such irradiation . |
| 29 | Studies were undertaken in 176 male patients who were having investigational colonoscopy and who were found to have a normal colon . |
| 30 | In communication terms he is introducing redundant information to make good the loss in the system . |