Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 2 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 3 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 4 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 5 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 6 | To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids . |
| 7 | It has been hypothesised that this characteristic is due to extra chromosomal material in the X chromosome as compared with the Y chromosome . |
| 8 | It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns . |
| 9 | Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems . |
| 10 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 11 | But federal involvement in the case has been limited and little action appears to have been taken . |
| 12 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 13 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Sylvia Thomas , the YAS archivist , explained that almost half the one hundred parchment rolls ( each roll comprising up to thirty parchments ) had now been treated and that work would probably continue for another four to five years . |
| 14 | d Options In the past dementia wards in mental hospitals have been treated as second class by the institutions , and have had low financial input , poor staffing levels , poor training opportunities , acceptance of long waiting lists and consequent poor standards of care and low morale . |
| 15 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 16 | Places on the courses are limited and advance booking is essential . |
| 17 | Please hurry though , stocks are limited and this offer must close on Saturday 30th June 1990 . |
| 18 | He had been cooking because beef-flavoured steam droplets fell into the air around him in the fractional gravity of Mars , and mingled with the tiniest hint of sweat on his fingers were odoriferous particles of fresh garlic . |
| 19 | Is it not perverse , therefore , that some people are suggesting that those hospital trusts should be wound up ? |
| 20 | Furthermore I am suggesting that each team should be no larger than 16 staff . |
| 21 | I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life . |
| 22 | Again the choices are examined but this time in view of the specific application requirements in the situations of use with respect to the product classifications in chapter three and taking into account disinfection requirements from which products are selected . |
| 23 | Conservatism in Britain has been multifaceted but that tradition has been dominant . |
| 24 | On the left , the state programmes are criticized as imperialist population control , preventive genocide or " another counter-insurgency mechanism " . |
| 25 | Four important birdlife areas in the north-west of Wales have been designated as Special Protection Areas , ( SPAs ) , by the Welsh Office . |
| 26 | To this end , Tang reports that some 13.8 million ha of Malaysia 's forests have been designated as permanent forest estate ( PFE ) , of which 9.1 × 10 6 ha are productive forests that are intended to be managed on a sustained yield basis ( see section 8.2.1 for a definition ) . |
| 27 | Unless you are certain that the statute has not been amended since that date , take the cumulative supplement , which is arranged in the same way as the main work . |
| 28 | In the last 18 months a company has been formed and charitable status obtained . |
| 29 | Howard Cooke , the current President of the Senate and a veteran politician of the People 's National Party ( PNP ) , was chosen by the government in late July to be the next Governor General ; the opposition Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) stated that it should have been consulted and expressed disappointment with the choice . |
| 30 | I attempt champagne again but am given but cursory attention from director . |