Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If all mandatory fields have been completed and all completed fields contain valid entries , your request will be actioned .
2 On June 8 , 18 political organizations including the OLF had unsuccessfully petitioned the electoral commission for a postponement until irregularities and " discriminatory activities " had been resolved and all armed forces had withdrawn to their camps as agreed [ see pp. 38660 ; 38855 ] .
3 Steam days are held on the first Saturday of each month from April to October when as many as possible of the exhibits are operated and many additional attractions are provided .
4 It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns .
5 For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction .
6 Such initiatives clearly reflect the desire to ensure that central government priorities are adopted and that local authorities make optimum use of the resources which they are given .
7 You 're suggesting that these simple tasks are beyond my capabilities ? ’
8 Since the late 1970's there has been something of a boom in British Rail 's passenger services , with over 150 new stations having been opened and several new services developed .
9 In so far as the goal is to extract a ‘ clean ’ data set of ordered clones and probes , but which is still large enough to minimize the number of contigs , a high initial redundancy implies that less additional effort is needed to close any remaining gaps when all available probes are used and all contiguous clones are ordered .
10 It has also been shown that more sensitive judgements can be obtained from children when the power figure — so often represented by the adult — is removed ( Lloyd and Donaldson , 1976 ) .
11 Fortunately , it has been demonstrated that most non-polar polymers can be treated in this way and results agree well with direct measurements of .
12 Indeed , a few authorities have retreated from corporate structures-management teams have been disbanded and some chief executives dismissed .
13 Often the contents of a reply are non-committal ; it is said that points made by a committee are noted or that certain matters will be kept under review .
14 One does not want to occasion unnecessary delay in exercising those controls , but they must be sufficiently firm and rigorous to ensure that criminals who try to get into the country are detected and that illegal immigrants are similarly detected and prevented from entering the country .
15 Clearly statements about the service ( e.g. that English meals are provided or that special dishes for children can be obtained ) can not relate to present facts , for the simple reason that the hotel is closed in December when the brochure is sent out .
16 In reviewing some of them in this book , it has been found that several complicating features arise , beside the straightforward failings of human beings wishing to pigeon-hole phenomena or experiences into neat categories : ‘ strategies ’ or ‘ syndromes ’ with classical-sounding names .
17 It has been suggested that the processing of gastrin in duodenal ulcer patients may be altered and that aberrent forms of gastrin that are immunoreactive but not bioactive may circulate , thus obscuring any correlation between gastrin and gastric acid secretion .
18 Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased .
19 The document stated that Kurdish cultural rights were to be recognized and that Kurdish regions would enjoy increased autonomy in local government .
20 During and after this resource allocation planning , there will be pressure for more projects to be undertaken and some persuasive reasons for doing so will be given .
21 It was important that expectations of the traditional awards should be sustained and that major transformations in the world of work or career patterns , both current and imminent , should be accommodated in the new HN Unit .
22 Broadcasting on Radio Somalia that same day , Ahmed Ali said that an interim administration would be formed and that multiparty elections would be held after two years ; fraternal and co-operative relations would be maintained with the interim Somali government in Mogadishu .
23 On the negative side it should be recalled that many Belorussian nationalists were more pro-Western than specifically Belorussian in their emphasis , while many others became so identified with the Bolshevik Party that they shed earlier inclinations .
24 It was of public importance that the issue should be resolved because many other cases were ‘ in the pipeline ’ .
25 Its universality is to be expected if all existing organisms have a single ancestor .
26 It was also decided that joint stock companies would be permitted and that foreign-owned ventures would be allowed to operate on the same terms as domestically owned firms .
27 Safeguards would have to be built into the use of post-selection , pre-placement medical examinations , which should only be permitted if all successful applicants are subjected to such a medical examination .
28 Mr Ivor Stanbrook ( C Orpington ) said it was imperative the law should be applied and those encouraging breaches ought to be prosecuted for the common law offence of incitement to commit a crime .
29 Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought .
30 Mike Traynor of distribution services said ‘ All existing specifications are being reviewed to see where improvements can be made and all new specifications are being designed in line with the policy . ’
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