Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 2 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 3 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 4 | Each caste is made of a group of family lineages who are endogamous within the caste but must marry outside the paternal lineage . |
| 5 | Each caste was subdivided into jatis or subcastes , which in total number many thousands . |
| 6 | Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’ |
| 7 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 8 | In the rabbit population , on the other hand , the balance of economic advantage is shifted towards those individual rabbits that are big spenders on equipment for running fast . |
| 9 | First , their ‘ basic ’ economic function is supplemented by a major role in economic restructuring . |
| 10 | Probably , in terms of company drive , this product was the sacred cow of all sacred cows and yet the economic tide was flowing against us . |
| 11 | In England , the complete technique was applied to serious music ; in September 1935 Elisabeth Schumann recorded both parts of the Evening Prayer from Humperdinck 's Hansel und Gretel . |
| 12 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 13 | ‘ A file will in due course be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 14 | Nor , in an atmosphere of reluctance , can the initiator be confident that a participator 's initial dependence on other people 's ideas and energy will in due course be turned into well-informed independence . |
| 15 | The genetically modified saplings will in due course be infected with the virus to test their resistance . |
| 16 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 17 | When the Poles finally repulsed the Russian counter-attack , they sponsored an independent bourgeois republic , which in due course was recognized by Moscow . |
| 18 | It is apparent , therefore , that differentiation was made between male and female blood , and that circumcision , in its new casting , had some role to play in that context . |
| 19 | The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 20 | However , total regional support was downgraded as both levels of support and areas granted regional status were reduced . |
| 21 | These may shape the activities of unions , so that their political manoeuvring is based on clientelist relationships , rather than class relationships . |
| 22 | In RENFE , by contrast , political manoeuvring was internalized within the organization , so that the management process itself was politicized . |
| 23 | Shevardnadze visited the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi on Nov. 11 and assured local reporters that the new Georgian parliament was committed to ending the conflict as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Each division is led by a Head of Services who is responsible to me as their Chief Officer . |
| 25 | During this period , the Welsh Office has created a Departmental structure by which responsibility for Welsh education is vested in three divisions : Schools , Further Education , and Education Services , each division being supervised by an Assistant Secretary . |
| 26 | Each division was assessed on each of these fourteen risk elements and compared , element by element , with the corresponding assessments made for the group as a whole . |
| 27 | It said that a local education authority ‘ shall , in particular , have regard to the need for securing that provision is made for pupils who have not attained the age of five years by the provision of nursery school . ’ |
| 28 | That provision was placed in the contingency because it was un felt it was unclear at the time , what the effect on costs would be , of the sale of link waste . |
| 29 | IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships . |
| 30 | The supreme example of spiny defence is shown by the porcupine fish , a small inflatable creature that can puff itself up into a prickly sphere , either with an intake of water when under the surface , or with air when it has been caught and removed from the sea . |