Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National Power and PowerGen have been given permission to burn that fuel at their power stations at Pembroke , Richborough and Ince . |
| 2 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 3 | Will the Minister confirm that , notwithstanding what the hon. Lady has said about the cluster of leukaemia in the vicinity of Thurso , all the scientific studies that have been done fail to prove any connection with work being done at Dounreay ? |
| 4 | They are seeking wage increases several percentage points above prevailing wage settlements , and voted overwhelmingly to reject Boeing 's three-year contract offer . |
| 5 | He says it looks quite exciting if it can save alot of trees , make fuel accessible to people who are having difficulty finding enough fuel , then it should be good . |
| 6 | They should also be given permission to issue some form of fixed interest profit-related bond , be allowed to raise a proportion of their equity direct from the public and be subject to independent regulation similar to that of privatised utilities . |
| 7 | As a single mother with two children , he said , she should be allowed time to find alternative accomodation . |
| 8 | A number of agencies , including Government , are taking action to stimulate high quality design by British manufacturers , and this research aims to contribute to knowledge about how high quality design is achieved . |
| 9 | In Surpassing the Love of Men Lillian Faderman records two separate cases of women in France in the sixteenth century who were punished tor using transvestite disguise and deploying dildos in their lesbian relations . ’ |
| 10 | Accordingly , it was the duty of the solicitors who were instructing counsel to make this claim and who , in correspondence , had evinced an intention to seek an order for costs against the local authority because of the supposed failure of the local authority to discharge its duty properly , to provide for the court a detailed statement of those costs ; moreover , to prepare that statement with proper care . |
| 11 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 12 | The story runs that Gay News were having trouble getting any work done because of the number of people who used their phone line as a combination information service and helpline . |
| 13 | we were talking about them , we were raising money to buy extra practice |
| 14 | It has also been proposed that breastfeeding may be less satisfactory for infants born after short than after long intervals , owing to the mother 's diminished ability to provide adequate milk , as deduced from the comparatively poor nutritional status of young children in El Salvador whose birth was preceded by a short interval ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 15 | Test flight : The Eurofighter combat jet , made by a consortium of German , British , Italian and Spanish aviation firms , is to have flight tests this summer . |
| 16 | Abbey National 's winning formula includes excellent service , innovative products and competitive interest rates : the combination of which lead to the hat-trick in the recent awards . |
| 17 | The woman 's shaking hand plucked another cigarette from the packet . |
| 18 | Added to this , the Government 's expressed aim to reduce public expenditure suggests there may be little or no overall boost to the Regional Council 's capital budget . |
| 19 | Another Libyan airliner took off from Tripoli en route for Malta , but was refused permission to enter Maltese airspace . |
| 20 | North Manchester health authority was making emergency plans last night to use voluntary agencies to transfer patients between hospitals . |