Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It requires extra software , and the IBM XT emulator for the Acorn Archimedes with the ARM microprocessor using RISC architecture ( based on the original RISC I design ) runs slower than the Intel 8088 , the slowest of the PC processors , under the MS-DOS operating system.Also as RISCs are designed with high-level languages in mind , designing in assembly is very tedious unlike assembly programming with CISCs where there are instructions for complex tasks and so programming is relatively simple and , as a result , less time-consuming . |
| 2 | Half of all children in care in the Netherlands are placed with foster families ( Kampen , 1988 ) , against only thirty-one per cent in Flanders ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 4 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 5 | The Highlands are teeming with fascinating creatures , and witnessing any of them going about their daily business is an exciting privilege . |
| 6 | The 20,000 Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela are threatened by imported diseases and pollution ; the operation is the second attempt since 1990 to clear miners from the area . |
| 7 | Additional components beside fractions TFIIIB and TFIIIC are needed for efficient pol III transcription |
| 8 | Richard Rogers and the bravura City of London headquarters he designed for Lloyds are presented as unmitigated villains . |
| 9 | Ribosomes are arranged in small groups called polysomes which appear as granules . |
| 10 | LoPresti and propeller manufacturer Hartzell are co-operating on new cowling/propeller/spinner designs for single and Twin Comanches which they predict will increase their maximum speeds by 42 mph and 35 mph respectively , through reduced drag and more efficient use of propeller airflow . |
| 11 | The point is , however ‘ negative ’ their representations may be deemed to be , both Kalin and Araki are dealing with three-dimensional fully fledged characters with emotions and motivations — not cartoon cyphers of the paranoid heterosexual imagination . |
| 12 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 13 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 14 | Forests along the Adriatic coast have been deliberately burned and many wetlands including Posavina are endangered by military operations . |
| 15 | Refugees from the Iraq regime 's genocidal chemical weapons war against the people of Iraq Kurdistan are living in appalling conditions in Turkey , Iran or parts of Iraq outside their own region , in internment camps . |
| 16 | Other areas of conifers are found in the High Weald and on the Lower Greensand , but the heavy soils of the Low Weald are dominated by deciduous woodland . |
| 17 | Or perhaps the Poet and Friend are separated by unbridgeable gaps of sex and social position , and can not ever form a unit . |
| 18 | The NICs are situated in Latin America , i.e. Brazil , Mexico , Argentina , and the West-Pacific Basin , e.g. South Korea , Singapore , Taiwan . |
| 19 | The Fs and Gs are directed at small businesses , branch offices and workgroups in large companies ; the Hs at mid-sized companies or large company departments and the Is at large company divisions . |
| 20 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE are searching for financial backers for an extension to the new £500,000 William Clarke stand , at Trent Bridge . |
| 21 | At Galerie Berndt , thirteen works on paper and two objects by Meret Oppenheim are exhibited from early June until the end of July . |
| 22 | ‘ Chevenement , the minister for research and technology , and President Mitterrand are surrounded by good scientists . ’ |
| 23 | All government and party buildings in the centre of Moscow and in the Kremlin are connected by underground passages with secret exits at three metro stations . |
| 24 | This approach is likely to be most appropriate where States are faced by similar problems , e.g. the impact of demographic changes upon social security systems . |
| 25 | The indications for TIPSS were bleeding from gastric varices ( six patients ) or recurrent bleeding from oesophageal varices that had not responded to repeated injection sclerotherapy ( 10 patients , number of bleeds two to more than 10 before TIPSS ) . |
| 26 | Such new suburbs were most attractive to the lower middle class , although Port Sunlight and Bournville were built on similar principles for workers , as were the LCC 's first cottage estates . |
| 27 | Then , records of strandings in Britain and the United States were plotted against magnetic maps . |
| 28 | The emergence of brilliant teenagers like Nicky Barmby , Andy Turner , Stuart Nethercott and Andy Hill were introduced into first-team action and Venables predicted a bright future for the club . |
| 29 | Stars Jeff Goldblum , Laura Dern and Sam Neill were joined by ex-heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali , former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee , Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and several members of Congress . |
| 30 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |