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 | To explain these associations it has been hypothesised that dietary fat increases the colonic concentrations of soluble free fatty acids and secondary bile acids . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But federal involvement in the case has been limited and little action appears to have been taken . |
| 9 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 10 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 11 | Places on the courses are limited and advance booking is essential . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the left , the state programmes are criticized as imperialist population control , preventive genocide or " another counter-insurgency mechanism " . |
| 14 | Four important birdlife areas in the north-west of Wales have been designated as Special Protection Areas , ( SPAs ) , by the Welsh Office . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In the last 18 months a company has been formed and charitable status obtained . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I attempt champagne again but am given but cursory attention from director . |
| 19 | Initial reports have now been received and detailed consideration will now continue . |
| 20 | ‘ ( a ) when the whole of the price has not been paid or tendered ; ( b ) when a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument has been received as conditional payment , and the condition on which it was received has not been fulfilled by reason of the dishonour of the instrument or otherwise . ’ |
| 21 | Frequent inspections are recommended and advance warning is preferable . |
| 22 | It has already been stressed that social policy can not be analysed on its own , without reference to other activities of the state . |
| 23 | Staff are reminded that unauthorised software must not be used on any of the Garden 's computing equipment . |
| 24 | When the site is accessible , deliveries are organised and Open Christmas food co-ordinator Paul Thomas and his team assess the quantities available and how much is needed to supplement any shortfall . |
| 25 | When gall stones have been dissolved and oral bile acid treatment is withdrawn , bile reverts to being supersaturated with cholesterol over one to four weeks and in some patients , gall stones recur . |
| 26 | But before the tour , chairman of selectors Ted Dexter confirmed that the original 16-man squad , from which David Gower and Jack Russell were controversially omitted , had been picked because equal importance was being given to the tour 's Test and one-day international commitments . |
| 27 | The accident had , after all , been contained and little radiation had escaped . |
| 28 | SERIOUS traffic delays are expected while British Gas carry out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 29 | It has been recommended that radiologicial examination should be reserved for patients who present with confusing or indistinct diagnostic features . |
| 30 | Since then it has been reported that Soviet television has covered the election of a factory director by delegates representing the workforce of 13,000 . |