Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 2 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 3 | The document complains that few people are given council housing . |
| 4 | Boats are readily available to visitors , from various mooring bays around Harray , but my favourite venue is the Merkister Hotel , at the north-east end of the loch ; a true fishing hotel , to which anglers return , year after year ; where fishermen new to Orkney are given expert advice and endless encouragement . |
| 5 | They are given advice choosing topics by their tutors , the librarian talks to them about skills they will need ( based on the nine steps approach ) " and range of information available . |
| 6 | The problem has been that the field is owned by the builders Wimpey Homes , who refuse to allow the path to be developed unless they are given planning permission to build on at least part of the field . |
| 7 | Modules of type PACKAGE are given skeleton module headers automatically by LIFESPAN , as explained in Section 3 of this manual . |
| 8 | If the Secretary of State does not believe that GP fund holding produces two-tier waiting lists , how can he explain the position in Manchester , where patients of fund holders are given eye treatment in a private wing , while patients of other GPs wait 13 months for an appointment ? |
| 9 | Mick added : ‘ I was pretty proud , but if I 'd cooked it , I 'd have been eating pumpkin pie all year . ’ |
| 10 | Huh me sitting here and you 've been eating blood supper . |
| 11 | She explained that she had been eating mote cheese and drinking an extra pint of milk a day to make sure she got enough protein during pregnancy and breast-feeding . |
| 12 | Increasingly , experts are seeing computer crime as a people rather than a technical problem . |
| 13 | In India too people are convinced that the Western nations are seeing test-tube fusion and are keeping it a secret because they have realised that not only does test-tube fusion have great commercial potential , but could revolutionise military strategy . |
| 14 | Because I mean little kids are seeing father christmas and decorations |
| 15 | If you are using stocking stitch for the main part , or any double bed pattern knitted using a 1x1 setting , then a 1x1 rib will probably be the one you choose . |
| 16 | We would be quite safe in stating that over 90% of these kite flyers are using ripstop nylon of either type for their kite sails . |
| 17 | Men often oppose family planning , so many women must either hide the fact they are using birth control or meet with considerable opposition . |
| 18 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |
| 19 | This may , say Buzzell and Chussil , be because businesses are using portfolio analysis too simplistically and not perceiving the remaining potential of ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ . |
| 20 | Employers are using pension fund contribution holidays to boost profits rather than improve benefits . |
| 21 | Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited . |
| 22 | Reports on these visits have been made and from these a number of lessons have been identified which firms that are using risk management systems are likely to find of interest . |
| 23 | Those girls are getting from 13s to El a week for producing the Gazette and in London they would have to pay 395 at the lowest to the men who are producing government work , so that the competition is not fair . |
| 24 | The thinking behind the MMC report is that cash buyers are subsidising credit card users because prices in shops and restaurants reflect the charge levied by the credit card companies on the retailers . |
| 25 | But where it is n't well known is the people who ought to know , and that 's the pensioners , you know th perhaps er your er parents , people er older than yourselves who are drawing state pension , and er the advertising seems to have gone astray . |
| 26 | Hyundai has also been helping Empress Software do a Korean version of its RDBMS and 4GL under X11 and Open Look . |
| 27 | Canadian group Friends of the Rain Forest is organising a boycott of Petro-Canada , which has an oil exploration concession in Burma , saying that " oil investment dollars are helping turn mainland Asia 's last significant forested region into a wasteland . |
| 28 | STATE-of-the-art computer simulators are helping train reactor operators at Chapelcross and Calder Hall . |
| 29 | ‘ Lukewarm toleration ’ is the description given by some New Zealand correspondents who believe that clergy sometimes feel that ‘ traditions are inhibiting parish development ’ . |
| 30 | Richard Ellis are handling Minster Court on behalf of the Prudential . |