Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 2 | The campaign has been running since 1963 and the object has been to encourage private or business premises to install some form of floral display . |
| 3 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 4 | A third of the staff have already been made redundant and directors said the future of the remaining 20 was still unclear . |
| 5 | And so he had acquired an old-fashioned classical education , with gaps where teachers had been made redundant or classroom chaos had reigned . |
| 6 | Between 1870 and 1880 the Jesuits had been expelled from Germany , religious orders dissolved , the State had interfered with the discipline of the clergy , civil marriage had been made obligatory and Prussia had withdrawn its financial support from Catholic churches . |
| 7 | If we see something in others that makes us angry , if they are causing hurt or pain , then our first task is to look at ourselves . |
| 8 | Also , no explanation is offered as to how society defines criminal behaviour , why some acts are made illegal and others not . |
| 9 | Each one has a courage which controls his fear and subdues his emotions so that risks are made responsible and commitments in the face of danger are carefully calculated . |
| 10 | I think they 're getting desperate and Berlin seems the likeliest cause . |
| 11 | paracetamol , if you 're getting hot and achy . |
| 12 | But it was felt though , that it was necessary to support the document in order to clear up a rather unsatisfactory situation er , where we 're holding sectional and delegate conferences that do n't have remits and guidelines er , which can clarify their position . |
| 13 | They will work closely with the Careers Service to ensure that school leavers are offered appropriate and quality jobs through Compact . |
| 14 | Polluters are going unpunished and factories not being properly inspected because of a serious shortage of staff at Her Majesty 's Pollution Inspectorate , according to a report from the National Audit Office ( NAO ) . |
| 15 | If people are born heterosexual or homosexual then the concept of ‘ promotion ’ is irrelevant . |
| 16 | ‘ Now that we know British food is just about the worst in the world , ’ says Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth UK , ‘ how ironic it is that we and other rich nations are exporting fat and sugar to starving people in Africa and Asia . |
| 17 | The two subunits of the repressor dimer are numbered 1–104 and 1'-104' , whereas residues from the symmetry-related dimer are marked with a star . |
| 18 | An organisation called SPOD ( Sexual Problems of Disability ) is a charity which can provide direct service to people with disability and/or their partner who are having sexual or relationship problems . |
| 19 | Not for the first time this season their defence had been found wanting and Oldham exploited the weaknesses to the full , owing a special debt to the inspiration and tireless running of Henry and Milligan . |
| 20 | These nets must also be fastened top and bottom to each stake since they will be required to catch rabbits bolting in either direction . |
| 21 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |
| 22 | Each project requires specific conditions but the general thrust will be to secure guaranteed or priority access for target participants/bodies , at charges which are not disadvantageous compared to the normal level of charging for the facility or type of facility . |
| 23 | To every method must be added preliminary and post cleaning actions which at the very least are the assembly of cleaning materials and their cleaning and return afterwards . |
| 24 | After removing all the decayed wood , all edged should be made flat and square , to make the strongest joint with the clean material . |
| 25 | Copies of the initial draft of the report should be made available and time allowed for observations and objections to be made which could be incorporated in the final report . |
| 26 | I 've seen it , and now I 'm getting hot and cross . ’ |
| 27 | If you add to this the growing number of health and fitness related books then you would expect us all to be getting healthier and fitter . |
| 28 | Research on the fast breeder reactor started in the United States in 1945 and the answers extracted by the committee indicated that the product was unlikely to be needed until practically the middle of the twenty-first century , by which time uranium resources would be running low and prices accordingly high . |
| 29 | Through mathematics truth and reality could be laid bare and appearances transcended . |
| 30 | The planned reference implementation will be distributed free and SunConnect will be integrating the information into a management system . |