Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the summer , SCOTVEC will be contacting all centres to discuss the programme for Quality Audit visits . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be courting double standards to remove that status from Vic Williams ’ , she said . |
| 3 | The landlord is usually the party who settles the form of the lease ( albeit it may be amended many times before execution ) and most of the covenants are inserted for his protection . |
| 4 | Finally we 'll be helping 24 readers combat chilly summer evenings with our sixth prize of chunky woollen sweaters . |
| 5 | Rather than concentrating almost exclusively on the training of direct service practitioners , they should probably be devoting more resources to training professional personnel who will function in indirect service roles , directing , co-ordinating and supervising the work of paraprofessional personnel and providing appropriate in-service training for them . |
| 6 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 7 | We should be using such systems within the Horticultural Education course , since future employers of Garden students will increasingly demand familiarity with such systems in future . |
| 8 | So we believe that unions should be effective , should be active trades councils should be effective , should be active , should be using modern methods , but without , and I stress this , without losing sight of our traditional concerns and values . |
| 9 | Judging by how well labels sell in the shops — and they do — the world and his wife must be using sticky labels on everything , including the kids . |
| 10 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 11 | Be careful to choose a pale-coloured piece of card if you will be using dark flowers , and if you wish to use some white or light-coloured flowers , you should choose a card in a dark colour such as brown , black or navy . |
| 12 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 13 | We 'll be using several shades at once with different colouring and highlighting techniques to create very natural effects . |
| 14 | The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries . |
| 15 | Since I will be using these letters in the present book , it will be useful to list them here . |
| 16 | And who would be using these tracks ? |
| 17 | They may not be using these terms but , for the first time , a career counsellor can obtain reliable data from interviews or questionnaires which detect goal priorities and motivation profiles . |
| 18 | Searle , told New Scientist that his company wo n't be using any antibiotics in its processes . |
| 19 | They sort of they tie together and you 'll be using some equations and next time we 'll give you som we 'll have a look at graphs again just a quick |
| 20 | As a WW recreational paddler I will be using recreational values in my work . |
| 21 | Across Europe there is a general movement away from pollutive scourers ; in Britain this year , for example , 30 per cent of textile and clothing manufacturers will be using biodegradable agents and , by next year , estimate Friends of the Earth , this will rise to 80 per cent . |
| 22 | Most of the time you will be using general-purpose tools such as drills , saws , and hammers , or simple tools such as a trimming knife or pliers . |
| 23 | They also complain about the shortage of wood brought about by iron smelting , and ask for opinions on that matter : " … also of any opinion conceived of the great consumpcon of timber and all other kinds of wood made in divers places thereabouts by the Iron Mynes " ( they must refer to wood taken for charcoal burning for the furnaces , the iron mines at this stage would not be using large amounts of timber , but the woodlands were decimated for this reason . |
| 24 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 25 | The workers , it seems must be using genetically-based cues , such as colour or odour , to discriminate between full and half sibs . |
| 26 | In the case of the universal conception such contrasts will be difficult , for the temptation will be to see all beliefs , images , myths — in short all elements of culture — as being social representations or elements of social representation . |
| 27 | These checks are only justified if the person is likely to be handling large sums of money or to be exposed to the possibility of bribery . |
| 28 | I take it , it will mostly be building new prisons , but they will take some time , especially if the Ministry of Works have anything to do with the plans . |
| 29 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 30 | On April 2 , the US State Department confirmed that " the [ Iraqi ] government seems to be levelling substantial portions of the Turkoman town of Tuz Khurmatu , 40 miles south of Kirkuk " . |