Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Preamble to the new recommendations acknowledged the changes : " Some important gaps in knowledge have been filled and new issues have emerged to challenge the international community . |
| 2 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 3 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 4 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 5 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 6 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 7 | To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids . |
| 8 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 9 | Learn to adjust your priorities as earlier assignments are completed and new ones taken on . |
| 10 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it has been recognized that such concessions can , if applied fairly and without discrimination , aid the efficient administration of the tax system . |
| 12 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 13 | It had long been recognized that many species are protected from predators by colouring that provides camouflage . |
| 14 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 15 | Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems . |
| 16 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 17 | But federal involvement in the case has been limited and little action appears to have been taken . |
| 18 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 19 | The effects of this pressure have emerged in at least one Modular Course evaluation study ( see Table 6.2 , Modular Course Management Structures ) , and a determined attempt has been made to configure the management system in such a way that Field Chairs participate in all Course development decisions , so that special needs are recognized and special difficulties can not be easily ignored . |
| 20 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 21 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Sylvia Thomas , the YAS archivist , explained that almost half the one hundred parchment rolls ( each roll comprising up to thirty parchments ) had now been treated and that work would probably continue for another four to five years . |
| 22 | d Options In the past dementia wards in mental hospitals have been treated as second class by the institutions , and have had low financial input , poor staffing levels , poor training opportunities , acceptance of long waiting lists and consequent poor standards of care and low morale . |
| 23 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 24 | Places on the courses are limited and advance booking is essential . |
| 25 | Please hurry though , stocks are limited and this offer must close on Saturday 30th June 1990 . |
| 26 | He had been cooking because beef-flavoured steam droplets fell into the air around him in the fractional gravity of Mars , and mingled with the tiniest hint of sweat on his fingers were odoriferous particles of fresh garlic . |
| 27 | Is it not perverse , therefore , that some people are suggesting that those hospital trusts should be wound up ? |
| 28 | There is an item about this joint staffing watch at item ten , which suggests that the government are also finding that it 's got limited use , and are suggesting that these returns should be completed on a different basis , and rather than quarterly , annually . |
| 29 | Some MPs are suggesting that local authorities should be given the power to compel farmers to protect hedges . |
| 30 | Furthermore I am suggesting that each team should be no larger than 16 staff . |