Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 2 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 3 | Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz are building new car factories in the east , at a cost of DM5 billion and DM1 billion respectively . |
| 4 | The Japanese are building artificial ski slopes in a new material which is claimed to closely simulate the sensation of snow . |
| 5 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 6 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 7 | Apart from that , you are wasting good knitting time while you are popping around with deliveries . |
| 8 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 9 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 10 | Babies in high nitrate areas are given bottled water . |
| 11 | Juveniles who do not respond to ‘ mediation and reparation ’ are given one-to-one counselling , encouraged to focus on their crime and discover ways of avoiding re-offending . |
| 12 | And USPCA director Robin Wilson warned that thousands of sheep are at risk unless they are given immediate shelter . |
| 13 | For lack of a better alternative , all patterns matching the position are given equal credit . |
| 14 | Time of Submission The time of submission of the application within the date set by the UCAS is not important ; all candidates are given equal consideration . |
| 15 | Time of Submission The time of submission of the application within the dates set by UCAS is not important ; all candidates are given equal consideration . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , they are given equal prominence in the New Testament , and should be given equal weight as images of God . |
| 17 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 18 | A strategy is to be drawn up so environmental issues are given equal priority , and to ensure the council 's response is consistent . |
| 19 | The Article 67 Directive , which requires the abolition of any domestic restrictions on movements of capital between persons resident in member states , was to be implemented before 1 July 1990 ; Spain , Portugal , the Republic of Ireland and Greece are given transitional relief until the end of 1992 , and Belgium and Luxembourg may temporarily continue to operate their present dual exchange market . |
| 20 | They are given appropriate feedback , and they can make mistakes ( and recognise and correct them ) without anyone else knowing . |
| 21 | And in some cases there is support for more elaborate reforms to ensure that social welfare considerations are given appropriate weight in decision making and are not left merely to managerial discretion . |
| 22 | The first Plan identified the need to re-examine programmes for all categories of schemes to ensure that those which produce casualty reductions are given appropriate priority . |
| 23 | Continue to re-examine programmes for all categories of schemes to ensure that those which produce casualty reductions are given appropriate priority . |
| 24 | And the treatment is very simple , it 's by diet and if these children are given appropriate diet they will grow up entirely normal as intellectually able as anybody else . |
| 25 | They assume that everything will remain as it was before unless they are given specific notice that some aspect has changed . |
| 26 | A few writers ( Betsy Byars , Joan Lingard , and Judy Blume , for example ) are given critical attention , the rest are not . |
| 27 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |
| 28 | However , if you are given advance warning , think about the stay and about the meals you will have to provide . |
| 29 | It is quite clear from these contrasting analyses of underachievement , employability and disruption , that the differential experiences of black girls are given minimal attention . |
| 30 | They stand in water , which corresponds to their boggy native habitats , and are given additional light overnight to supplement the illumination from fluorescent strips ; such are the practicalities of plant-of-prey nurture . |