Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more on how these roles can be blended into a successful group , see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 . |
| 2 | THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms . |
| 3 | The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato ’ — may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication . |
| 4 | My noble and learned Friend and my right hon. Friend made it clear that the green form scheme would not be withdrawn until a full , free , prompt , and convenient form of professional advice was available to every asylum seeker . |
| 5 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 6 | In that year the secretary of the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts received a letter from Spencer Perceval the Prime Minster ( who was later to be assassinated by a bankrupt , John Bellingham ) to say that His Majesty had graciously given orders to present The Thatched House Society with £2,000 from his private purse . |
| 7 | In addition , involvement of major neurovascular structures and bone can also be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy . |
| 8 | But although it is such a widespread condition , endometriosis is often overlooked because it can only be diagnosed by a minor surgical procedure called laparoscopy ( the insertion of an illuminated instrument through a small incision in the abdomen ) and many suffers do have problems getting their GPs to refer them to a specialist who can do the these for them . |
| 9 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 10 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 11 | Variation was entirely random , and each population evolved in response to purely local environmental pressures , which could be altered in an unpredictable way by migration or geological changes . |
| 12 | It can only be altered by a separate legal document called a ‘ codicil ’ . |
| 13 | Thus output might be altered by a technological breakthrough , or by changes in the structure of taxation which affected the choice between work and leisure , or by changes in other real variables , but should not be affected by a change in nominal spending : such changes should affect the price at which the available output is sold and not the quantity of output itself . |
| 14 | If there is a steady downward drift in the average temperature in the area , a drift that persists over centuries , successive generations of animals will be propelled by a steady selection ‘ pressure ’ in the direction , say , of growing longer coats of hair . |
| 15 | The boxes both have six SIMM slots and can be incremented to a maximum 96Mb. +1 408 432–0292 |
| 16 | The trouble with nuclear power is that its ‘ costs ’ always have the potential to go well beyond the point where they can be factored into an environmental bill . |
| 17 | Search for a peptide was rewarded by the discovery of a compound containing five amino acids , which combined powerfully with the opiate receptor and had all the necessary properties for it to be recognized as a new transmitter substance . |
| 18 | There was a fondness for the strict classical style , as seen in Moscow Kiev Station , affirming a desire to be recognized as a fully-fledged European power . |
| 19 | This is in the hope that they will become clearer to those who work within the industry , and that they may be recognized as a distinct discipline by academic and practising lawyers alike . |
| 20 | The burrow caused by Sarcoptes scabiei can be recognized as a thin line , not unlike a small splinter , in one of the sites which the mite is known to favour . |
| 21 | Metaphase 1 ( M1 ) is the stage of meiosis used in routine analysis for the establishment of bivalent number , chiasma frequency or position , and for the detection of a chromosomal anomaly such as a reciprocal translocation which can be recognized as a multivalent configuration in the complement . |
| 22 | Coaching is also beginning to be recognized as an essential tool which has to be developed systematically , not left to chance or the interest of a few concerned managers . |
| 23 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 24 | In fact , our research shows that sensitivity needs to emerge from the shadows and be recognized as an important problem in research . |
| 25 | It is good that the demanding job of running hostels for the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped , together with other provision of residential care , should now be recognized as an important aspect of social work , for much needs to be done in this field and many able people need to be recruited for the work . |
| 26 | In January 1973 the Scottish Education Department , on behalf of the four Central ( Art ) Institutions , formally approached the CNAA with a proposal for their Associateship and Diploma courses to be recognized for a classified degree in art and design . |
| 27 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 28 | Each of these can be recognized by a common pattern of internal structure , all the individual species within a type being but variations on the same basic pattern . |
| 29 | This is achieved by the bidder procuring the target to be re-registered as a private company and taking advantage of the private company exemption contained in s155. ( 3 ) To save stamp duty . |
| 30 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |