Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly with voluntary bodies , and I know that this was discussed at length in the P A G , but will be of interest to members , increasingly with voluntary bodies , we are moving towards er , jointly providing services with them , in a partnership arrangement where we are effectively purchasing and commissioning services from them , and that is the way we would wish the policy to go . |
| 2 | People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre . |
| 3 | Princes Street limes have been especially selected as replacement trees , paid for by the town trustees . |
| 4 | Sterling eurobonds , which are a part of the international eurobond market described in Chapter 5 below , are normally issued as bearer securities and are usually unsecured but with a negative pledge ; they are listed on an exchange but not necessarily the London Stock Exchange and they pay interest gross . |
| 5 | However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction . |
| 6 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 7 | First , the length of the recession means many domestic companies ' margins are already compressed and cost increases are now more likely to be passed on . |
| 8 | But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems . |
| 9 | And in Naples , 25 per cent of school-age children are not enrolled and truancy rates of the rest are high . |
| 10 | The ordinary letter services are not designed as compensation services , but compensation up to a maximum limit of £24 may be paid where it can be shown that a letter was damaged or lost while in our custody . |
| 11 | The buyer tells us that bright colours are not sold because sales estimates are low . |
| 12 | These are rapidly restored when prolactin levels drop at the end of lactation or more abruptly if lambs are weaned early and the suckling stimulus removed . |
| 13 | Edam and Gouda are both eaten as table cheeses and used for cooking , when they melt readily . |
| 14 | To take a final example , leaf-cutting ants have been extensively investigated but Atta nests have conspicuous mounds of refuse nearby and this is derived from the fungus gardens ; when the nests are near river banks , streams are used as disposal sites . |
| 15 | In Austria , where 23,000 refugees ( over half of whom were from Romania ) sought political asylum in 1990 , the influx had been sharply reduced when visa requirements for Romanians and Poles were reintroduced ( in March and September respectively ) . |
| 16 | While first-cousins are often favoured as marriage partners , a distinction is very often made between parallel and cross-cousins . |
| 17 | There are often cost and quality effects in so doing . |
| 18 | They are often described as speciality products and are priced as such . |
| 19 | So serious has this issue become to Philips that the launch of CD-I has been substantially delayed while Philips engineers attempt to produce their own compression-decompression architecture to make video possible within the CD-I standard . |
| 20 | By 1961 internal tariff barriers had been substantially reduced and quota restrictions on industrial products had been largely eliminated . |
| 21 | However , all the important branches of physics are now seen as engineering subjects in their own right and are often taught without much of the underlying physics . |
| 22 | Many teachers are now persuaded that English lessons should not be solely confined to ‘ great ’ literature , but should include all kinds of ‘ texts ’ , spoken and written , together with popular forms such as television commercials , bestsellers and comics ; |
| 23 | Out in the bush the nomadic people still drive their camels and cattle over huge tracts of land , but the herds have been decimated , and along with the drought , some watering holes are now out-of-bounds as clan allegiances shift and change . |
| 24 | Blix also said that the IAEA 's effectiveness would be much increased if member countries were to make available to the agency relevant information gathered by spy satellites . |
| 25 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 26 | It must be clearly recognised that compensation orders are otherwise wholly independent of that exercise . |
| 27 | For example , where the body size and reproductive success of males both increase with age , the effects of size on breeding success may be grossly exaggerated if age differences in size are ignored . |
| 28 | The direct effect discouraging people from driving to the beach may be counteracted if the cost of producing garden swimming pools is increased ; the direct effect on the cost of oil-fired central heating may be substantially offset if electricity prices rise . |
| 29 | This last aspect has yet to be fully developed but training agencies have been short-listed for courses scheduled for later this year . |
| 30 | The IAEA wants to be there to check whether fuel rods have been removed in the past , and to ensure that the spent fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |