Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 2 | Ian 's knees are swollen and a large blister is developing under his big toe . |
| 3 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 4 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 5 | The status of mother and child is indicated by the wealth of space within which they are placed and the expensive quality of the ornament and decoration of the interior . |
| 6 | THE disciplinary hearing of a senior council official accused of gross misconduct has been delayed until a legal dispute is settled , writes John Smith . |
| 7 | It had a peak of over 31,000 contracts on 5 October 1990 when sterling joined the ERM , the announcement of which had been delayed until the main London cash markets closed . |
| 8 | The numbers of the 140k residues at the amino- and carboxy-terminal ends of each deletion polypeptide are given and the corresponding restriction sites used for the isolation and cloning of gene 62 sequences into the T7 expression vectors are shown above . |
| 9 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 10 | The responses are completed and a small sub-committee of the policy-making group , including the INSET coordinator , begins to collate the points for consideration . |
| 11 | When the outstanding plan of consent are completed and the industrial state in place anticipate the traffic will be intensified . |
| 12 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 13 | Enough to know that her righteous indignation would fade under the realisation that no malice had been intended and no real harm done . |
| 14 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 15 | It has been recognized that the European Directives are increasingly affecting what happens in the workplace . |
| 16 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 17 | ‘ Information about the route has been leaked before the official announcement was made . |
| 18 | By the end of February all basic services had broken down or had been withdrawn and a mass evacuation of non-Bougainvilleans ( both foreigners and Papua New Guineans from other provinces ) was under way . |
| 19 | Two physicists at the University of Sydney in Australia had a piece of copper tubing , used as a lightning conductor , which had been crushed as the electrical current passed through it . |
| 20 | The most pessimistic observers are predicting growth rates of less than 1 per cent , and are suggesting that the Japanese economy is heading for a deep and prolonged recession . |
| 21 | In the case of a purchaser issuing quoted shares , the difficulties of knowing whether the 10 per cent threshold is exceeded and whether class tests are appropriate are compounded if the total consideration has not been determined and depends on completion accounts or an earn out . |
| 22 | I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important . |
| 23 | Since then his name has been vandalized and the weather-worn inscription from Nuptials at Tipasa is already difficult to read . |
| 24 | Rusted hooks hung from antiquated iron girders above him , the windows had long since been vandalized and the faded walls were daubed with obscene graffiti . |
| 25 | It had been arranged that a trustworthy man would come then to collect him and take him to a safe house . |
| 26 | For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) . |
| 27 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 28 | Immunoassays for the measurement of pancreatic group I PLA2 and non-pancreatic synovial type group II PLA2 have recently been developed and the present study investigated the presence of group I and group II PLA2s in serum samples from 36 patients with severe acute pancreatitis . |
| 29 | We have been taught that the only solution for us is to take our sick body to a doctor who will make decisions about it , an all-powerful doctor who carries our life or death within his hands . |
| 30 | Equally important , Britons have been taught that the political system works . |