Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canada in the Spring is already planned and Roy and his wife , Ann , are finalising the details of what promises to be an exciting six-week sojourn . |
| 2 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 3 | The team are building the properties on Hoskins Way , Homerton Road , Pallister Park . |
| 4 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 5 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 6 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 7 | From these are calculated the doses required for a quantity of water , usually 100 litres , if water consumption for each process requiring chemical is the same . |
| 8 | But if we are to preserve the creatures that rely directly upon water as their medium , technique and science alone are not enough . |
| 9 | But we are given no clues as to why some people should develop such personality traits . |
| 10 | You are given the readings . |
| 11 | While the authors have a view , readers are given the options and the relevant costs and benefits . |
| 12 | The principles of public law will require that those affected by decisions are given the reasons for those decisions in some cases , but not in others . |
| 13 | We are given the matrices C and B , both symmetric an pos. def . |
| 14 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 15 | Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled . |
| 16 | The four irreducible representations are given the labels a or b , depending on the sign of the character for C 2 ( + 1 or - 1 , respectively ) ; a 1 is as always the totally symmetric symmetry species . |
| 17 | Will he ensure that the police are given the photographs of that demonstration , taken close up by the media ? |
| 18 | You can use this same method to construct any shape triangle if you are given the measurements of the sides . |
| 19 | Large numbers of mentally handicapped people are willing and able to lead relatively independent lives if they are given the opportunities , support and encouragement they need . |
| 20 | Once the observations are completed the parents can devise a hypothesis about what is maintaining the problem behaviour . |
| 21 | When you are told to move the lace carriage more than once ( by a succession of straight arrows ) , you are shaping the stitches on the needles to firm the pattern , in the same way that you slip stitches to and fro on knitting needles before ‘ purling ’ back . |
| 22 | Less often , a company also needs more than its home market can provide ; frequently , however , firms that trade globally are seeing the merits of a global shareholder-base to match . |
| 23 | High and low angles are often used as point-of-view shots in which we are seeing the scenes through the eyes of one of the characters . |
| 24 | The system has only been in place for a month but already , says ‘ we are seeing the benefits . ’ |
| 25 | And we heard some figures about G P's , ninety two percent of those G P's who 've got their own budgets are seeing the benefits to their patients and their patients are saying so as well . |
| 26 | We are seeing the beginnings of a two tier system . |
| 27 | However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet . |
| 28 | NORTHERN Ireland Railways passengers are defying the bombers by using the Dublin-Belfast route in increasing numbers . |
| 29 | We need to be aware that many of the ideas we introduce on an assumption that they are reflecting the children 's backgrounds may have little or no meaning or relevance for the children . |
| 30 | ABOUT a third of dog owners who exercise their pets in the Darlington Denes are using the bins specially provided for dog excrement , a survey has revealed . |