Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 2 | Once the formalities are completed and a certificate issued , the company ( public or private ) possesses a legal personality of its own , distinct from its membership . |
| 3 | How the latter will be achieved remains to be seen , but it has been mooted that a surcharge should be levied on tropical timber , to be paid by the market , which could be used to undertake research into ways of achieving and ensuring tropical forest survival . |
| 4 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |
| 5 | It has long been recognized that a variety of structural divisions have generated more or less distinct cultures and sub-cultures , whether based on class divisions , age , gender or religion . |
| 6 | The limiting factor in terms of future developments is not technology itself but the creative insight with which applications of technology are developed and a sensitivity towards the needs and concerns of the individuals affected . |
| 7 | No redundancies are foreseen and a relocation is not currently intended . |
| 8 | It had been calculated that a uniformity of two-thousandths of an inch was an unheard-of standard of accuracy — except at Cadillac . |
| 9 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |
| 10 | In your work on procedures nineteen and twenty you recorporate the sort of suggestion you 've had here that general purchases are checked and a record of their checking is the formal authorisation invoice . |
| 11 | In the standard formation model , millisecond pulsars are formed when a neutron star accretes matter from an evolving companion . |
| 12 | Finally at the highest level , the limits of reason are exposed when a critique is mounted of a form of thought as such . |
| 13 | Three quarters said they had n't been consulted before a caution was given , and sixty two percent of our sample thought offenders should only be entitled to one caution no matter whether the crime was committed by an adult or juvenile . |
| 14 | On the timing of negotiations on the prospective EC membership of those European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) states which had submitted applications , the meeting stated that official negotiations should not start until ratification of the Maastricht Treaty had been completed and a decision on the Delors II package had been taken . |
| 15 | The first phase of the Trust 's Environmental Audit , announced in the summer 1990 issue of the magazine , has now been completed and a programme has been approved which should result in the principles of environmental protection being more firmly entrenched in the Trust 's activities . |
| 16 | At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information . |
| 17 | So could there be , in the Mind itself , an autumn when old habits are shed and a springtime when old growth is renewed and new shoots flourish ? |
| 18 | Children 's entertainment has n't been forgotten and a child 's fair , including mechanical rides , swings and a roundabout will also be operating on the site . |
| 19 | His mattress had been slashed and a machine used to feed him intravenously was broken . |
| 20 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 21 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 22 | Police said other stations had not been evacuated because a warning call from the terrorists had been too vague . |
| 23 | Teachers are reminded that a Rally takes place at East Grinstead on 23rd April . |
| 24 | PLEASE CONTINUE , those of you who have difficulty are reminded that a list of fundraising ideas was sent out with the last notes and we would hope that the areas would get together and hold rallies and/or cheese and wine evenings/coffee mornings etc . |
| 25 | Dust extraction plant had been installed and a vacuum cleaning system became operational . |
| 26 | man Alan Reid said they had not been disciplined because a member of the Royal Family had been a patient there . |
| 27 | Your ability to write and argue is of little avail if you get your facts wrong , fail to find the relevant authorities , rely on a statute that has been superseded or a case that has been overruled , or simply misunderstand the authorities . |
| 28 | It will examine all the factors which are considered when a household decides to move . |
| 29 | A well had been prepared and a brick-kiln built ; about 85,000 bricks had been burned . |
| 30 | In order to excavate the site itself , a new road had been built and a viaduct constructed to carry it across the valley before it climbed through the wooded hillside to the rocky crag chosen for the location of the church which formed the heart of the project . |