Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terms which are not expressly agreed between the parties but inserted by law into the contract are called implied terms . |
| 2 | The Department of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture are providing technical advice for the project . |
| 3 | IBM Corp and National Semiconductor Corp are pushing isochronous Ethernet , a new variant of the local area network standard that promises smooth multimedia communications . |
| 4 | Now women participating in the liberation struggle are finding new roles . |
| 5 | Dendrochronology and infra-red photography are giving surprising results among Netherlandish paintings at the Metropolitan Museum |
| 6 | The regions of the spectrum that are not affected by absorption are called atmospheric windows ( Figure 5.6 ) . |
| 7 | The developers of a golf course are facing criminal prosecution for blocking footpaths with a club house and an ornamental lake . |
| 8 | One is aware that educators in this field are treading sacred ground and expose themselves to accusations that they create unrealistic expectations ( say , elaborate rituals ) , or that they encroach upon the territory of other professionals ( the Clergy , perhaps ) . |
| 9 | Global industries , such as securities and commercial banking are using isolated systems less and less , and are instead becoming increasingly dependent on both voice and data networks . |
| 10 | His opponents in the April 9 contest are sitting Labour MP Giles Radice and Tory candidate Elizabeth Sibley an NHS medical secretary from London . |
| 11 | The Bristol player suffered a broken cheekbone and his club are considering legal action against Penney … but the United bench were angry too |
| 12 | Good progress is being made in new drug research and development and early clinical trials of an orally administered anti-cancer drug and a new diagnostic agent are giving encouraging results . |
| 13 | It is as a result of resource monopoly that those important cases arise which in the language of the layman , the economist and the antitrust lawyer are called monopolistic production . |
| 14 | It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge . |
| 15 | Perhaps Auslan Cramb meant to claim ( as he has done before ) that carbon dioxide emissions from combustion are causing global warming ( a slight increase in the greenhouse effect raising the temperature of the Earth ) . |
| 16 | He does not deny that some scientists and engineers in British industry are doing world-class research — the signal and image processing work at British Telecom 's labs is an example , says Sir Eric — but he would argue that there are no world-class labs as such in the UK , nowhere that has attained the kind of critical mass in R&D that Bell Labs has in the US or Hitachi and NEC in Japan . |
| 17 | An act of bankruptcy must be proved , and under this term are included various acts , which show the debtor 's insolvency or his intention to delay or defraud his creditors . |
| 18 | These are haunting and elegiac poems , in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form . |
| 19 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
| 20 | It seemed a shame to cancel the celebrations : children in the Borough were allowed free riding on Coronation Day , which they used to full advantage ! |
| 21 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 22 | The Navy and Air Force were to undergo similar re-organizations . |
| 23 | Mr. Handscomb and the other applicants for judicial review were serving discretionary life sentences . |
| 24 | In the spirit of this policy , no application from a disabled but otherwise qualified candidate will be rejected because of his or her disablement without the applicant being given full opportunity to see the facilities of the University and to discuss with appropriate staff how particular difficulties might be overcome . |
| 25 | Thousands of flags were waving , helium balloons were going up and air balloons were coming down , two separate bands at both ends of the huge auditorium were playing different songs and everyone was cheering and screaming their heads off . |
| 26 | This curse will reverberate through the whole play and will not cease in wreaking havoc on the whole of Lear 's family until , with death as a result , ‘ The wheel is come full circle ’ . |
| 27 | The residents of these four townships constitute 12 per cent of Wirral 's total population , yet between them they contain 38 per cent of the borough 's known opioid users . |
| 28 | Although the unemployment rate in Wirral in 1985 stood at 20 per cent , 87 per cent of the borough 's known opioid users were unemployed , and strong correlations were found throughout the borough between level of opioid use , unemployment and social deprivation . |
| 29 | The only effective remedy is to install hardened valve seats or a replacement cylinder head , both expensive options . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Association is demanding written proof of Barnes ' status both in this country and New Zealand . |