Example sentences of "be [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 2 | Distillers MG and AGA Gas are building an air separation plant near Sheffield . |
| 3 | If you are applying for planning permission yourself , include a letter stating the planning merits of your proposal and also any personal circumstances you think are relevant — for example , that you are building an extension for an elderly relative . |
| 4 | EUROPE 'S two A-bomb powers , Britain and France , are opposing an attempt to change the way that the EEC handles its nuclear trade . |
| 5 | All function words in this list are assigned an index of zero , to indicate their lack of semantic content and hence non-participation in the overlap process . |
| 6 | Sales staff are given an opportunity to review their estimates when the current year 's figures are finalized in June , and the budget is then submitted to the Board for final approval . |
| 7 | The self regulatory requirements on management under the Health and Safety at Work Act should ensure that discipline is enforced and that all affected personnel are given an opportunity to maintain and improve their working environment . |
| 8 | Particularly important is the contribution that EA will make to ensure that unemployed people are given an opportunity to keep their work skills and work records up to date . |
| 9 | In addition to the publication of reports , seminars and workshops are held at which relevant members of industry , research organisations and the civil service are given an opportunity to discuss and make critical and constructive comment on draft reports or hear the recommendations and final results of research . |
| 10 | ( Interesting echoes of The Iron Man here — any drama is likely to contain elements of other stories from home or school ; it 's good if they are given an opportunity to make these their own . ) |
| 11 | They come in suspicious and uncertain and are given an adjustment period of up to 3 months . |
| 12 | Widows are given an allowance because they are deemed to have been financially dependent . |
| 13 | This equation is not easy to solve numerically as it stands ; however , if we are given an approximation unc to an eigenvalue , we write unc for the exact eigenvalue , which therefore satisfies ( 4 ) , so that we obtain |
| 14 | The problems came later , when you are given an exam paper : twenty questions to be answered within one hour ten minutes . |
| 15 | When the protagonist goes for ‘ psychoscopy ’ , we are given an illustration in concrete terms of how the diagnostic tools of this society condition their object : |
| 16 | But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food . |
| 17 | Here we are given an insight into the painterly decisions — sacrifices — to which artists often feel driven . |
| 18 | Even in the first couple of lines in the book , we are given an image of a perfect island spoilt by humans and their actions . |
| 19 | ‘ Primary 4 and 5 are given an average of 60 minutes conscious homework each evening . |
| 20 | You are given an indication in brackets of the feeling or attitude expressed , and you must mark on the text the intonation you think is appropriate ( mark only the response ) . |
| 21 | If , however , you are reconditioning an engine anyway , the fitting of the valve seats will only increase your expense marginally so the return will probably be after only 5,000 miles . |
| 22 | These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) . |
| 23 | If you are using an extension flex reel , always uncoil it fully to prevent it from overheating . |
| 24 | If , however , you are using an agency capable of providing a reasonable service — even if it is not a ‘ full service agency ’ — you are likely to meet , at one time or another , an account group , consisting of at least five or six people , who will be doing between them all the tasks involved in creating and placing your advertising . |
| 25 | BATTEUR DE MESURE : When you sing in recitative , Mademoiselle , I follow you ; but you are singing an air in regular rhythm , very regular . |
| 26 | ‘ I am bringing an action for $1,000,000 against a health spa , ’ she told the court . |
| 27 | The importance of being able to reciprocate gifts in kind is also illustrated by case study data from Pahl 's study on household work strategies on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent , in which one man who was long-term unemployed had been helping an uncle to decorate his house , and how the uncle then gave him a large piece of meat . |
| 28 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 29 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 30 | Once again , the principal performers could be children who are helping an adult . |