Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Preamble to the new recommendations acknowledged the changes : " Some important gaps in knowledge have been filled and new issues have emerged to challenge the international community . |
| 2 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 3 | On-farm inspection , as practised under the old calf subsidy scheme and which was suggested as a workable substitute by both farmers and auctioneers , had been dismissed as impractical . |
| 4 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 5 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 6 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 7 | According to Cannistraro , the report had been dismissed as unreliable at the time but now , in the light of the ‘ proven ’ Libyan connection , was the missing link that placed the blame squarely on Gaddafi . |
| 8 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 9 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 10 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 11 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 12 | Caution : Do not apply pressure if the sinuses are swollen and painful ( see Fig. 13 ) . |
| 13 | The C. and A.G. , after satisfying himself that the vouchers have been examined and certified as correct by the accounting department , may , in his discretion and having regard to the character of the departmental examination , in any particular case admit the sum so certified without further evidence of payment in support of the charges to which they relate … ‘ |
| 14 | A number of quartz-carbonate veins bearing copper , zinc , lead , silver and gold have been examined and massive volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation has been confirmed . |
| 15 | If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished . |
| 16 | Subsidence Claims Advice leaflet ( PC17 ) should be issued to policyholders in every case where a subsidence claim has been intimated as this will forewarn the insured of the procedures and timescales likely to be involved . |
| 17 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 18 | limit in advance the discretion entrusted by the Act to any meeting of the licensing board at which applications are heard and disposed of . |
| 19 | Next , the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar . |
| 20 | Her successes are dismissed as tawdry , her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated . |
| 21 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 22 | These factors are dismissed as inevitable or unalterable , or not considered at all . |
| 23 | All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom . |
| 24 | The Gospels are dismissed as unreliable , second-hand accounts which contain only ‘ something — but little — of the sayings , the precepts of Christ and information concerning him ’ . |
| 25 | Although patients need to be protected from risk , we must be sure that the precautions taken are justified and that social support networks that have taken years to develop are not unnecessarily shattered . |
| 26 | However , occasions will arise where contributions are justified and this should be actively pursued with the insurer concerned . |
| 27 | To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids . |
| 28 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 29 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 30 | The indirect costs of making a poor choice are hidden but heavy — perhaps not all that hidden if someone loses an order or makes an avoidable error in design . |