Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law can not fulfil this function unless the decisions of the legal institutions are binding or non-optional . |
| 2 | While manufacturers were perceived as the traditional users of sales promotion , now retailers and financial institutions are realising that these techniques can help build business . |
| 3 | This may seem a statement of the obvious , but examiners for universities , colleges and professional institutions are agreed that this very obvious point is not appreciated by the candidates . |
| 4 | The work includes published editions of documents and calendars of primary sources , and short descriptive notes are given where necessary . |
| 5 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 6 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents , their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 7 | Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable , and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection . |
| 8 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |
| 9 | If money as abstraction engenders this cynical attitude , so the plethora of products and pleasures creates the blasé attitude in which all objects are perceived as dull and unexciting , and only a new stimulation which rises above the others can produce some , usually temporary , interest ( 1978 : 256–7 ) . |
| 10 | In this brief precis of object relations theory I have started from the proposition that good objects are remembered and bad ones only hidden in the unconscious . |
| 11 | Third , from a methodological perspective , perspective , mentalistic accounts are seen as valid so long as they are closely tied to observations , so that any proposed link between behaviour and underlying knowledge is subject to rigorous scrutiny and ultimately to falsification through additional empirical enquiry ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 12 | By the use of control accounts in both the financial and cost accounts it will be possible to ensure that both sets of accounts are balanced and integrated . |
| 13 | For convenience company accounts are examined but similar considerations would apply to other business entities . |
| 14 | The worry in Washington is that the economy and national defence are suffering because young Americans have neither the technical skills of the Japanese nor the linguistic and scientific proficiency of Russian students . |
| 15 | About three quarters of the contestants at each board are graded as suitable for the candidates ' list , some of them with recommended restrictions ( the Indian doctor was reckoned ‘ suitable for consideration for an ethnic seat ’ ) . |
| 16 | However , the Circular states that they will also be expected to ‘ retain the ability to act as direct service providers , if other forms of service provision are unforthcoming or unsuitable . |
| 17 | Finance and provision are seen as interdependent , not independent . |
| 18 | Cash flows are improved and possible defaulters removed . |
| 19 | Class and inequality are accepted as permanent and ineradicable , and are embodied in an uneasy equilibrium within the political system itself . |
| 20 | That is , it totally fails to consider the persistence of power through property ownership ; moreover , its conception of the labour market ignores those factors which determine whether or not one 's skills are perceived as marketable , and whether some groups , for example the professions , have the power to establish the view that their particular skills are valuable . |
| 21 | When formulating its eventual recommendations , the National Consultative Group will have to take into account two essential differences between agriculture and the rest of British industry : it is for the most part composed of relatively small-scale and highly efficient enterprises employing limited numbers of men and women working in relative isolation from one another ; and , as we have seen , the boundaries between the craftsman and technician in agriculture are shifting and difficult , if not impossible , to define . |
| 22 | I mean , Alan Arkin had done The Russians Are Coming but that was n't the romantic lead . |
| 23 | After all , a government pursuing anti-inflationary policies that cause wide-scale unemployment can point to a thriving underground economy and claim that its policies are working and that jobless figures do n't count . |
| 24 | In Appendix 1 a number of organisations ' relocation policies are reproduced and some cover eligibility and levels of relocation assistance given to recruits . |
| 25 | Time is now catching up ; attitudes are changing and conventional dogma is called in question . |
| 26 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 27 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 28 | But when parenting is shared the lines of responsibility are blurred and formal assessments can lead to resentment . |
| 29 | Now , they say , while the programme controllers of radio and television in Scotland , James Boyle and Colin Cameron still commission work and report to McCormick , the ultimate decision as to whether their programme strategies are accepted and funded lies with Ron Neil , the managing director of regional broadcasting in London . |
| 30 | We know that both strategies are favoured when rare , therefore there must be some proportion at which they do equally well . |