Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 2 | The modern movement for the legislative recognition of ‘ human rights ’ is in fact a movement for the increased control of legislatures by the judiciary , because the human rights that are claimed are couched in such broad terms , and involve so much balancing of one consideration with another , that they inevitably call for much judicial ‘ interpretation . ’ |
| 3 | Instead of generalising findings from one patient to others by treating them all as representing instances of a single syndrome , the approach is to treat them all as people in whom a language-processing system which , before their neurological damage , was the same for all of them , has been impaired in some specific way . |
| 4 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 5 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 6 | The five-year project has resulted in a facelift for the line which has been recognised with several national awards . |
| 7 | More , probably , has been written about this great hall-like chapel than any other building in the world ; but in fact no description , picture or photograph conveys the impact which it makes . |
| 8 | So much has been written about this single epic without any clear view of the potential impact emerging . |
| 9 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 10 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 11 | A man can enjoy outdoor exercise on all but five days in a year " [ and this ] has been echoed by most energetic Englishmen … |
| 12 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 13 | Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions . |
| 14 | The need for training has been highlighted in many major reports . |
| 15 | Clerical Medical 's record of consistent performance has been highlighted in many independent surveys and has attracted much favourable comment . |
| 16 | This had in fact been an important focus since the early 1980s , even before the start of the classification research project , and the IPG 's approach has been adopted for all new and rewritten items . |
| 17 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 18 | An even more limited approach has been adopted in some other cases . |
| 19 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 20 | Yet little systematic work has been done on such alternative formats , nor on the religious symbols employed by them . |
| 21 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
| 22 | This type of model has been implemented by many other large organizations including American Greeting Cards , Amoco Chemical Company , Atomic Energy of Canada , Bell Canada , Electronic Surveillance Command of the United States Air Force , North-western Bell , and Union Carbide . |
| 23 | One pattern of language use which has been observed in some bilingual communities is that of reciprocal language use . |
| 24 | The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years . |
| 25 | Although this requirement was directly applicable only to federal agencies or projects requiring federal licences , in practice it has been extended to all major schemes of industrial expansion and new construction . |
| 26 | This second year in the life of the Enterprise Centre has been characterised by both innovative ‘ pilot ’ programmes of enterprise work and by future development of initiatives commenced last year . |
| 27 | Upwards of £12m of tax-payers ' money has been invested in these new forests and at present , in Caithness , forestry has provided only three full-time jobs for local people ; at the cost of the greatest act of environmental vandalism perpetrated in Scotland this century . |
| 28 | The conservation of the primary structure of ribosomal proteins across species has been documented for many other ribosomal proteins ( 2 ) . |
| 29 | — Depression has been documented in many clinical samples . |
| 30 | This inherent seriousness has been increased by such dour teachers as Calvin and Luther . |