Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved .
2 Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy .
3 Take the case in which the price level expected next period is always equal to this period 's actual price level .
4 The liduid emptying half time was correspondingly shorter in the patients with idiopathic DU ( median 28 min ( range 22–38 ) ) than in the H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 39 ( 35–66 ) ; p<0.001 ) .
5 the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another .
6 Only this week , Lord Chief Justice Taylor been commenting on the need to look at sentencing and I think this case highlights that need is very , very urgent indeed .
7 An important measure to encourage this trend was taken in October , when Iran 's central bank ( Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islam Iran ) doubled the foreign exchange quota available to all private-sector enterprises dealing with the public sector and set a new special exchange rate of $1.00=1,000 rials ( a fall from $1.00=1,250 rials ) .
8 The solid emptying half time was correspondingly shorter in the patients with idiopathic DU ( median 67 min ( range 11–221 ) ) compared with the H pylori positive patients with DU ( 180 ( 62–1500 ; p<0.01 ) and H pylori negative healthy volunteers ( 431 ( 58–838 ) ; p<0.001 ) .
9 The inference to the Serpent representing Universal Energy is clearly presented in the following extract from the Atharva Veda :
10 Greenpeace has called for a complete reorganization of the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) , the UN regulatory body , on the grounds that its mandate to promote nuclear energy is incompatible with its responsibility as an international nuclear watchdog .
11 Evidence that force evokes antecedent causality is found in the contrast between ( 160 ) and ( 161 ) : ( 160 ) The average consumer is becoming more sophisticated regarding product and advertising claims , partly because of widespread criticism of such assertions .
12 The programme cementing this unity was taken piecemeal from the Labour manifesto .
13 As humans , we may learn to talk , but the impetus to learn and the capability to acquire human language are instinctively human .
14 Perhaps it 's an attempt to pretend that fame is worthless and spurious and all those things .
15 The need to develop effective action to implement that trust is a dramatic illustration of how economic forces need to be contained and controlled for the good of the world community right across both frontiers and generations .
16 The training package bought by the Department to meet this need is the Dundee University Distance Learning Packs CC1 , CC2 and CC3 .
17 This is shown for year 1 in Table 5 : notice that the desired capital stock to meet this demand is ten machines and since the firm already has ten machines , no net investment is necessary .
18 The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed .
19 When incitement to racial hatred was first criminalised in 1965 , the legislation made it a requirement that an intention to incite racial hatred be proved .
20 I 'd like to find out if part of your opposition to grant maintained status is due to the fact that as a councillor you would no longer be able to exercise control over grant maintained schools .
21 This allowed an individual citizen to request that case be referred to the Constitutional Council if he or she felt that fundamental rights were being undermined .
22 But yarraman also loses its suffix and the verb yuu now gains the suffix -ndi to indicate that yarraman is still a location ( the man is still on the horse ) .
23 At the check-out the cashier passes each item being purchased across a scanner which reads barcodes , on the pre-packaged items , which carry encoded information .
24 Here again the attempt to define one man 's right reduces the freedom of another — the right to observe discreetly impinges on the privacy of whoever is observed , and the claim to privacy restricts the right to observe , if right it be .
25 The Inland Revenue says any gain is apportioned on the basis of ‘ beneficial ownership ’ .
26 The alleged motive which John did not dispute was that he committed this crime to conceal another crime being the murder of MOIR McILCHENICH widow in Ellister and we are told that the last mentioned murder of the widow was " discovered " ( probably means committed ) by him and others .
27 Privately she wondered exactly what the gossip surrounding that incident was .
28 This control experiment showed that deuterium was important in producing the neutrons and was suggestive that fusion between two deuterons ( dd fusion ) was taking place .
29 At the beginning of the century , the discovery of Brownian motion with a typical energy particle of 3 ×10 -2 eV showed that matter is not continuous but is made up of atoms .
30 Several years later it was observed that 39 per cent of 500 diabetic patients had systolic blood pressure greater than 150 mm Hg ( Kramer , 1928 ) , and in the same year another study showed that hypertension was almost three times more common in diabetics than non-diabetics ( Bell & Clawson , 1928 ) .
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