Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight .
2 In Newham , there are 519 young people without a job ; 58 say that they are not interested , so that means that 451 are seeking a YT place .
3 In Tables 1.1 and 1.2 are presented an outline of the major differences between the everyday and sociological explanations of phenomena .
4 The Posh are making a strong promotion challenge and their experienced , hard-running side knocked Liverpool out of the Rumbelows League Cup and impressed in defeat against Middlesbrough .
5 In addition , some of the carbon available to an organism may come from a source that is not in equilibrium with the atmosphere ; the problems caused by this are called the ‘ reservoir effects ’ .
6 Children who do this are making a statement about not needing comfort from adults , while at another level needing them desperately and choosing a place where they know they will be forced out .
7 For those who get this far only about about half are offered a job .
8 For those who get this far only about about half are offered a job .
9 I think reprisals against people only distantly or circumstantially connected with those who have done others wrong are to make the people doing the avenging feel good .
10 He can not write for the papers or take part in television programmes and his sole opportunities in public are sharing the replies at question time and answering for the government in adjournment and sometimes in wider debates which concern his ministry .
11 Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects .
12 A great many young doctors do enter research , but few are reaching the stage where they are qualified for the senior jobs .
13 Perhaps the fact that so much time , money and paper has had to be spent on selling the education reforms , and that so few are beating a path to the doors of Rathgael House , suggests that they ‘ ai n't got much of a mousetrap ’ !
14 The mere fact that the British are debating the pound 's place in the EMS is enough to worry holders of sterling : perhaps the debate will end with the pound being devalued .
15 ‘ The British are getting a hit nervous about the draft EEC directive regulating transboundary movement of wastes ’ , he told New Scientist .
16 But he said there is a gang going round , and some are putting the chimneys on and the others are going in and doing the flues .
17 Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets .
18 Some are held every other week and some are held every week depending on the size of the company .
19 Some are held every other week and some are held every week depending on the size of the company .
20 K 1 and K 2 are called the principal curvatures of the surface at O. Their product is an invariant for the surface at O called the Gaussian curvature K ; thus
21 Young and old are enjoying the novelty of living in a ‘ proper ’ house for the first time in their lives .
22 A Study Skills Handbook ‘ has been written for students whose mother tongue is not English , yet who , for one reason or another are completing a course of study where English is the only language of instruction . ’
23 For autumn ‘ 92 , the French are enjoying a resurgence as the fashion barometer swings their way once again .
24 It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’
25 I now enhance and accentuate this be establishing the light tones of background wall and the luminosity of the foliage created by the back-lighting .
26 I now enhance and accentuate this be establishing the light tones of background wall and the luminosity of the foliage created by the back-lighting .
27 Can this be made a reality in the new NHS ?
28 Can this be called an advance ?
29 The contradictions within the Labour Party were quite marked ; many supported a boycott of German goods but were unprepared to consider any international action against fascism if this were to create a danger of war .
30 The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ?
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