Example sentences of "be study [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But it 's been adapted , it 's been worn by an ordinary person doing everyday things , and I think that 's , it 's something that 's , it 's very important to remember when you 're studying Victorian fashion and Victorian costume , that actually a lot of the documentary evidence gives a very biased picture and that to find clothes like this , I think you get a much more realistic picture of what people actually wore .
2 One has been to study living human populations of hunter-gatherers .
3 If I do manage to find some spare time I 'll be studying Spanish because you need something to take your mind off the racing . ’
4 For that reason , the majority are likely to be studying technical or vocational subjects that equip them with more immediately useful skills .
5 MORE than 80 banks are thought to be studying final proposals for the £1.4 billion debt refinancing plan to rescue the property and trading group , Heron .
6 But , whatever form they make take , language demands will almost certainly be greater than in the past ; more pupils will be studying foreign languages for longer periods of time , and children 's perceptions of foreign languages are likely to change .
7 You may be studying particular aspects of business or wanting to spend a couple of very pleasant hours learning about a new environment .
8 Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group .
9 All degrees in the Faculty may be studied full-time or part-time .
10 These can be studied free of interference from positively charged counter-ions — something chemists normally find extremely hard to achieve .
11 ( WES ) The club have today been studying Central 's tape of the incident .
12 During the past decade , I have been studying small-to medium-sized , fast-growing organisations .
13 Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries .
14 Anne Keddy Hector , Robert Seyfarth and Michael Raleigh at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania have been studying parental behaviour among captive vervets to see if males ' parental ability affected the females ' choice of mate .
15 Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton !
16 News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons .
17 He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks .
18 But the horridly fascinating subtlety of the mite 's means of infestation has only just become clear , thanks to Dr Nigel Franks and colleagues at the University of Bath , who have been studying infested colonies in observation nests .
19 The researchers from the University of Florida who have been studying marine bacteria say their discovery shows how an ecosystem can change and be flexible .
20 ‘ I see you have been studying local history , Melissa , ’ he observed , indicating the book .
21 We are studying specific plans , under the Europol heading , that will be geared specifically against terrorism , mafia activities and drug dealers .
22 Other groups are studying rural development opportunities , farm forestry and other environmentally sensitive farming practices , the economics of low input and organic farming systems , the optimal utilisation of agricultural investment and the creation of expert systems to aid in decision-making for the management of the natural and farmed environment .
23 to provide tax relief to those already working in the law who are studying part-time to become solicitors ;
24 But we are studying substantive interpretations of legal practice , not semantic theories , and our present interest in conventionalism lies in its negative claim that convention exhausts the intrinsic normative power of past decisions .
25 A lot of them are studying other things besides Italian and so they take time off to prepare for exams .
26 In real terms , this means 20,000 software professionals are now living in the region , while another 7,000 or so students are studying software-related disciplines in Scotland 's 12 universities .
27 ‘ Please give my apologies — tonight I am studying applied ergodynamics. ; )
28 With regard to the secondary school curriculum , the Yellow Paper maintained that too much scope had been given to the principle of pupil choice , with the result that many pupils were following unbalanced programmes and not enough pupils were studying science-based and technological subjects .
29 Motor events of the upper oesophageal sphincter associated with gastro-oesophageal reflux were evaluated in 53 symptomatic children ( median age 13 months ) who were studied recumbent and unsedated .
30 However , baronies associated with castles or the greater landed lay families have not been studied other than from a legalistic or genealogical point of view .
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