Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [subord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And fireworks are expected to fly as ministers battle to protect their cash plans in the light of a strict 244.5bn pounds spending limit . |
| 2 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 3 | Now they 're waiting to see if humans will respond . |
| 4 | Although concerned initially with resource allocation effects , the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion have been used to analyse whether shifts in trading patterns lead to benefits or costs in terms of gains and losses of consumer and producer surpluses . |
| 5 | MORE and more areas of BNFL 's THORP plant are coming to shape as contractors and commissioning teams strive towards the February 1993 deadline for all areas to be under the control of the Commissioning Group . |
| 6 | Survey data collected over the last three decades will be re-analysed to see whether changes in the geography of economic and social well-being in Great Britain have led to either or both of changed political attitudes and changed partisan allegiances . |
| 7 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 8 | Referrals from fundholding practices to private clinics , on the other hand , might be expected to increase as fundholders would have an incentive to encourage privately insured patients to claim from their insurance companies to avoid incurring a charge against the practice budget . |
| 9 | Elinor should n't be made to wade though pages of paragraphs with no commas in ‘ em . ’ |
| 10 | This is because the structure is more complex , and additional searches would need to be made to check whether paths already exist . |
| 11 | In such a group , some individuals may be seen copulating whilst others are depositing egg capsules . |
| 12 | In the higher primates these possibilities can already be seen emerging as actualities when chimpanzees use twigs to get at the occupants of a termite-mound , or wave branches to scare off leopards . |
| 13 | A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another . |
| 14 | — it could be used to check whether students are already familiar with the language and can use it confidently , to help the teacher diagnose problems ; |
| 15 | Common rules would be needed to define whether goods qualified as originating in a member country . |
| 16 | I must say erm I , I do wonder whether the district council might be enabled to say unless goods are sold from a car boot this is not a car boot sale er , therefore , we would put a ban on all commercial vans and vehicle entering these sites er that 's not being articles described in the er in the er maybe that 's something you could look at . |
| 17 | Children aged 3 to 9 will take part in a series of games ; their responses to questions on these games will be analyzed to ascertain whether comparisons were made and affected their self-evaluations . |
| 18 | One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate . |
| 19 | Ways must therefore be found to see whether things are actually improving : this will involve monitoring ( ie gathering a whole range of information and evidence as to what is actually going on in schools and evaluation ( ie the interpretation and critical judgement of that information ) . |
| 20 | In this case the supplier or a consultant may be asked to assist if facilities are not available ‘ in house ’ . |
| 21 | BANANAS worth £3 million will be left to rot after Customs seized a cargo at Felixstowe , Suffolk , in a smuggling raid . |
| 22 | Thus , missioners knew from daily experience the fundamental importance to deaf and dumb people of fingerspelling and signing , and they agreed with the deaf community that the language of signs and gestures was their own natural language which they should be allowed to learn as children and to practise as adults . |
| 23 | He knew the answers to his questions very well ; all too many men were relegated to the position of drone — and they resented it ; they showed their resentment all too often by despising women and taking the attitude that such inept creatures should be allowed to play while men ran the world and did anything in it which was worth doing . |
| 24 | The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should . |
| 25 | A more critical international audience will be watching to learn whether Krens and his powerful curatorial team are willing to take a lead in the current debate surrounding contemporary art . |
| 26 | Tests can be devised to ascertain whether changes in a person 's lifestyle , or fluctuations in the party 's electoral popularity , will affect membership . |
| 27 | While we are on the subject of ’ joining the union of your choice ’ , will he ensure that the security guards who are presently members of the Transport and General Workers Union and the General , Municipal , Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union , employed by the Ministry of Defence , are allowed to continue as members of the union of their choice and are not ordered into another — |
| 28 | 15 minutes later , Tranmere were in front and Town were tumbling to defeat as Irons blasted home number 2 . |
| 29 | In this study these agents were used to investigate whether granulocytes and mononuclear cells ( collectively termed leucocytes in this paper ) relax distal colonic circular smooth muscle by the release of NO . |
| 30 | Bigger and bigger telescopes were used to investigate whether nebulae were star-clusters or stars in the making ; this was something the spectroscope ultimately answered , because some nebulae gave bright-line spectra characteristic of hot gas rather than of the Sun or a star . |