Example sentences of "be [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above that , you 're into boat chandlers ' supplies , and if you are building that big , then you 'll know more about the subject than we do ! |
| 2 | I am sure that all my colleagues are as delighted as I am to support this excellent Bill , not least because it builds on the firm foundation organised during the passage of our privatisation measures . |
| 3 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 4 | Erm , the executive are accepting all these motions but on a couple of them want to put in a speaker with a statement and er after twenty one will to put that statement to the C E C. I now call composite twenty abolition of Wages Councils South Western Region to move , G M B Scotland to second . |
| 5 | Increasingly today , they are accepting that scientific pronouncements have an unavoidable element , not only of subjectivity , but also of informed guesswork about them . |
| 6 | C E C are accepting both these with a statement colleagues and I ask Edna to put that view for the C E C. |
| 7 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 8 | What had her eyes been seeing all this time ? |
| 9 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 10 | Galway know that they must come up with something extra special if they are to curb this young player who has gained immense respect throughout the sport . |
| 11 | They will work so much better on the day if they are given that advance preparation . |
| 12 | Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention . |
| 13 | However it is current , and its coverage — fiction , biography , travel , hobbies , popular science , etc. — is of subjects which interest the public library 's clientele , and which are given little critical attention by other sources . |
| 14 | But , unlike its predecessor , both these and the earlier historical items are given little social or economic context . |
| 15 | We are given some financial support from the government but this doe snot cover all our costs and we therefore depend on gifts from trusts , companies and individuals . |
| 16 | ‘ Unless something is done and we are given some special dispensation we will never be happy with this . ’ |
| 17 | If they are given another four or five years to bed in , no Government would dare to reverse them , any more than Labour could take back council houses from their new owners , or renationalise privatised industry . |
| 18 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 19 | Critics are seeing this new interest in Kahn as indicative of a public dislike for the superficialities of Post Modern architecture . |
| 20 | Finally , consider just why you are using all these fonts in the first place — perhaps you should re-think your design and limit the numbers to something more sensible . |
| 21 | If you are using any optional extra services , extra fees are payable , as shown opposite . |
| 22 | Environmental groups believe that because the big industrial nations control these committees and are anxious to avoid curbs on industry and car use , they are using this scientific research as an excuse for taking no action . |
| 23 | More and more employees are using these casual workers and every one of our jobs is under threat cos if you lose your job tomorrow , you 're a casual the day after . |
| 24 | Belgium , Holland , Norway and Sweden are producing some strong new designers of clothes , shoes and accessories . |
| 25 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 26 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 27 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 28 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 29 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 30 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |