Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those calves which are only coughing and/or tachypnoeic are usually in the prepatent stage of the disease or have a small adult worm burden and treatment of these animals should result in rapid recovery . |
| 2 | However , cases can arise where this is not the best approach . |
| 3 | As part of the whole process of computerising its information systems , Catering & Allied is making neat use of the Psion Organiser II alongside personal computers loaded with the Caterdata software from T IS . |
| 4 | In this way a knowledge of the patterning of events makes possible ‘ a mutual understanding of individuals and the impulses of aid to mate or young are thereby transformed into sympathetic actions ’ . |
| 5 | In the following account , localities for vegetation types have been given where these are present on the dot maps of the NVC . |
| 6 | At present , the Commission 's thinking is that express services should be liberalised where this is not yet the case . |
| 7 | John heard a noise just like Constable Hobbs ' bicycle screeching down the side of the box until it met an obstacle on the wall and stopped or that is what it sounded like in the stillness of the night . |
| 8 | People blame stress for changes to their hair : greying or balding are sometimes considered to be ‘ premature ’ . |
| 9 | Kelly was 12 months old when her mother first began to worry that all was not well . |
| 10 | Now there 's no denying that 1991 was not a good year for the advertising industry . |
| 11 | There is no denying that this is a severe problem . |
| 12 | But there 's no denying that this is an important event — or , to be more exact , an important set of nine events . |
| 13 | It is generally supposed that this is because he is on his death-bed , and his gift of making conversation has already ebbed away . |
| 14 | Generally , however , it is supposed that this was not possible . |
| 15 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 16 | But as well as indicating strong loyalist sympathies in the town , he had to inform that these were evidently not shared by Bruce 's own nephew , the new Earl of Carrick , Edward Bruce 's second son , who was lord there now and had handed over the castle , with his allegiance , to the usurper . |
| 17 | We suggest that six is about as many as an observer can cope with . |
| 18 | In addition the similarities in their decorative and illustrational work suggest that each was stimulated by the other 's ideas . |
| 19 | These two singles suggest that all is not lost , however . |
| 20 | When the Opposition call for an independent consumer ombudsman , I suggest that that is exactly what they have under the present arrangements . |
| 21 | Er so we are all very keen to see this get these extra fire fighters but as he has n't identified the source for which they could pay more , this believes that fifty thousand pounds which slices , there is a good way of doing it and suggest that that 's the way we should do it . |
| 22 | However , the disruptions in chronology and the mixture of writings suggest that this is far from being a reactionary return to a more traditional form ; indeed , these two works are grouped under the title Romanesques , further contravening the reader 's conventional expectations of an autobiography as a revelation of some truth . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , an increasing number of schools now see withdrawal as only one of a widening range of options , only to be used where the child 's individually assessed needs suggest that this is indeed the most appropriate form of provision . |
| 24 | Taylor and Ford ( 1983 : 183 ) note that ‘ the distinction between the ’ young ’ and the ‘ old ’ elderly is now commonplace' and suggest that this is manifested in , among other factors , the greater likelihood that the old elderly live in poor housing and that they have incomes below or near the supplementary-benefit rate . |
| 25 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 26 | The accumulation of further data since the original reports and the analysis in table VII suggest that this is not the correct explanation . |
| 27 | However , many of the examples of literate societies that are available for study suggest that this is not the case : in fact these societies continue to practice what Goody has defined as ‘ oral ’ modes of communication , with all its limitations . |
| 28 | We suggest that this is so because the vivid events are hallucinatory bursts whose content is unconstrained by the previous visual events , the ongoing emotion , or the ongoing integration ; whereas the less vivid events are visual material generated by the cognitive integration , and as such , are constrained in content . |
| 29 | However , other data presented here suggest that this is not an adequate explanation . |
| 30 | Other authorities cited to us strongly suggest that this is not a good plea unless the earlier case was carried to a conclusion . |