Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed . |
| 2 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 3 | Ian 's knees are swollen and a large blister is developing under his big toe . |
| 4 | The ANC demanded " total and verifiable " evidence that hit squad activities had been stopped after a prominent black lawyer was killed on Feb. 15 by a booby-trapped tape-recorder posted to his Soweto home . |
| 5 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 6 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 7 | The status of mother and child is indicated by the wealth of space within which they are placed and the expensive quality of the ornament and decoration of the interior . |
| 8 | THE disciplinary hearing of a senior council official accused of gross misconduct has been delayed until a legal dispute is settled , writes John Smith . |
| 9 | It had a peak of over 31,000 contracts on 5 October 1990 when sterling joined the ERM , the announcement of which had been delayed until the main London cash markets closed . |
| 10 | The numbers of the 140k residues at the amino- and carboxy-terminal ends of each deletion polypeptide are given and the corresponding restriction sites used for the isolation and cloning of gene 62 sequences into the T7 expression vectors are shown above . |
| 11 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 12 | At the same time , there is continuous pressure from creative people for simplicity in the briefs they are given and the creative brief , clearly , needs to set out the strategy in a way that is intelligible to , and usable by , the creative team : if it is n't , it 's useless . |
| 13 | The responses are completed and a small sub-committee of the policy-making group , including the INSET coordinator , begins to collate the points for consideration . |
| 14 | When the outstanding plan of consent are completed and the industrial state in place anticipate the traffic will be intensified . |
| 15 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 16 | Enough to know that her righteous indignation would fade under the realisation that no malice had been intended and no real harm done . |
| 17 | The first is that of the relationship between theory and practice , about which much has been heard since the Second World War as higher education has been used more and more as an entry route by professions seeking higher status . |
| 18 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 19 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 20 | It has been recognized that the European Directives are increasingly affecting what happens in the workplace . |
| 21 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 22 | It has also long been recognized that the same distinction occurs in attributive adjectives ( see , for instance , Jespersen , 1924 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Information about the route has been leaked before the official announcement was made . |
| 24 | The goals scored over four weeks are totalled and the highest number of goals wins a prize of £50 . |
| 25 | Mr Jordan , told the miners ' leader : ‘ The armies of mass pickets have been demobilised and the next Labour government must not call them up . |
| 26 | By the end of February all basic services had broken down or had been withdrawn and a mass evacuation of non-Bougainvilleans ( both foreigners and Papua New Guineans from other provinces ) was under way . |
| 27 | Two physicists at the University of Sydney in Australia had a piece of copper tubing , used as a lightning conductor , which had been crushed as the electrical current passed through it . |
| 28 | But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity . |
| 29 | The most pessimistic observers are predicting growth rates of less than 1 per cent , and are suggesting that the Japanese economy is heading for a deep and prolonged recession . |
| 30 | Instead , they are inhabited and the economic and social activities of the rural communities are expected to continue more or less normally . |