Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When applications being developed are an integrated part of a total system , these techniques prove inadequate . |
| 2 | Also recommended are an early recital by Jill Gomez of songs by Grandos , Turina and de Falla ; three miraculous Debussy discs by Livia Rev , and first recordings by the Hilliard Ensemble and the Camerata of London . |
| 3 | He had his little ancestral secrets , as follows : his great-grandfather , also a William , had been buried as an 80-year-old pauper in Wylye in 1806 after a lifetime spent as a humble shepherd , and his own father , James , was to die in St Pancras Workhouse in 1862 at the end of a lively career which had included being an agricultural labourer , a french polisher , a clothes salesman , a catsmeat dealer — and a pauper . |
| 4 | Secondly , giving a second full course of vaccine without determining whether the person being vaccinated is an infectious carrier would mean that the person could potentially transmit infection for at least six months before being identified . |
| 5 | Also included is an inkstand presented to him on his wedding by the Prince and Princess of Wales est. £3–5,000 ( $5–8,500 ) . |
| 6 | The knowledge that confidence will be respected is an important feature of effective nurse/patient communication , and is incorporated in professional codes of practice in a number of countries . |
| 7 | ‘ Hoffman 's shy-guy ability to reach an audience is completely perverted ; to say he is miscast is an understatement . ’ |
| 8 | The second tax considered is an estate ( and gift ) tax , which reduces the amount inherited from to , where , with the proceeds being used to pay a uniform capital grant ( G ) . |
| 9 | One of the options being considered is an index-linked pension . |
| 10 | Sitting up in bed , I scanned the article , which the News of the World claimed was an exclusive interview . |
| 11 | Typically , as soon as the minister or other speech maker had finished on each occasion , the media would leave , and the following day all that was reported was an edited version of the speech . |
| 12 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 13 | Although the structure which is presented is an ideal — similar indeed to the Ten Commandments , nevertheless in the same way that the Ten Commandments are relevant to our legal system so the principles which underlie the Pentateuch are relevant to economic life — principally because they express universal truth . |
| 14 | As has been seen , the only ground on which a right in the strong sense can be defeated is an even weightier competing right advanced by another individual . |
| 15 | The number of words to be searched is an heuristic decided upon by the user . |
| 16 | There are two or three colour forms of this pretty little fish , but the most often seen is an ember-red colour . |
| 17 | ‘ Rather sadly it is a comment on modern society that keeping public loos clean and not vandalised is an uphill battle , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe . |
| 18 | Underpinning all that I have written is an assumption … that the education process must be based upon the child . |
| 19 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 20 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 21 | The object sought is an ever more accurate understanding of Community legal texts and an interpretation which as far as possible ensures harmony between national and Community provisions . |
| 22 | What the hon. Gentleman has said is an absolute travesty of the position taken by the Government and , as far as I know , by the official Opposition as well . |
| 23 | Also exhibited is an enamelled gold suite , a massive bracelet ( below ) , ring and stick-pin bearing the crowned L , cipher of Leopold I , who became King of the Belgians in 1831 . |
| 24 | The fact that the Local Plan has yet to be adopted is an irrelevancy . |
| 25 | The assessment to be made is an objective one . |
| 26 | The gentleman to whom I was presented was an upright , elderly man with piercing eyes and a chin that looked as if he would stand no nonsense . |
| 27 | ‘ They thought that what we had done was an example of how a test should be made . |
| 28 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |
| 29 | What they had missed was an elegant argument in which Mr Menzies cast himself as Moses , the much-wronged and sorely-tried shepherd to the Israelites , and his session clerk and schoolmaster James Robertson as the faithful lieutenant Aaron . |
| 30 | However , the fact that what was being sought was an interim order undoubtedly coloured the judge 's approach . |