Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [coord] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 2 | Elements of the design are developed or resolved in a series of local activities . |
| 3 | On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara . |
| 4 | During 1990 SCOTVEC received a number of requests regarding the possibility of certification of National Certificate Modules where students are taught and assessed in a language other than English . |
| 5 | Until , that is , Dr Howard Phillips had pointed out that the defence of the building had been arranged and conducted by a former Haitian militia officer and an Englishwoman . |
| 6 | Meanwhile at the 12 area offices customer complaints ( e.g. poor water , flow , dirty water etc ) are received and put into a PC . |
| 7 | Of course , she would have eaten it if her resolution had not been broken and nullified through a gross and mistaken act of kindness . |
| 8 | Slave systems were typically displaced by the ‘ feudal ’ mode of production , where a class of partially free serfs are coerced and exploited by a dominant aristocracy of landlords , backed by a small central state . |
| 9 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 10 | The young squirrel had been caught and placed in a box . |
| 11 | And I march to an unseen drum that is the metronome of an infinite host and like Thoreau , I am lifted and inspired by a music that no one else hears . |
| 12 | Bill Naysmith , Group Design Director , has been nominated and chosen as a finalist for a National award ‘ The Prince Philip Prize ’ for the Designer of the Year . |
| 13 | Johnson Matthey 's R&D activities are organised and co-ordinated on a worldwide basis . |
| 14 | LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope . |
| 15 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
| 16 | Other hill farms are owned and worked as a unit linked with a lowland farm . |
| 17 | Each partition contains space for a finite number of items which are added and deleted in a pre-defined order . |
| 18 | Curfews are broken , drinks are tanned , discos are dismantled , golden opportunities are recklessly squandered , and matches are won and lost with a callous disregard for the nation and its emotional stability . |
| 19 | There is clear electron density in the ligand-binding pocket of MUP and A2U , showing that both have been co-purified and crystallized with a bound ligand . |
| 20 | It had now become clear that it was necessary to understand why what had been designed and certified as a fail-safe structure had collapsed in the air in quite normal flight operating conditions . |
| 21 | Systems have alreeady been designed and installed for a variety of chilled products , including sandwiches , poulty and poultry products , prime cuts of meat , meat products , such as pies and pasties , pizzas and so on . |
| 22 | Contradictory discourses are contained and framed by a dominant discourse . |
| 23 | It is essential that all problems are reported and managed in a disciplined way . |
| 24 | The prosecution say David Nock was the first of the running men , he 'd already been stabbed and collapsed outside a nearby nightclub calling for help . |
| 25 | Comparable material on family farming practices in Finland has already been collected and analysed in a previous research project . |
| 26 | the case that most people regard the way in which the National Library has been built and planned as a total national disaster and a vast waste of public money . |
| 27 | The temple must have been built and adorned in a period of some twenty years at most , probably less . |
| 28 | As has been mentioned previously , dogs which have been mistreated and passed through a number of other homes can represent a particular problem . |
| 29 | This failure of latent inhibition to transfer from one context to another is of some theoretical significance , being uniquely predicted by Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) theory ( see below , p. 81 ) , and it has subsequently been sought and found in a variety of other training procedures ( e.g. taste aversion , Hall and Channell ( 1986 ) ; conditioned suppression , Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , Lovibond , Preston , and Mackintosh ( 1984 ) , Swartzentruber and Bouton ( 1986 ) ) . |
| 30 | In reply to his observations about security , I should point out that in recent weeks the Chief Constable indicated that four out of five terrorist attempts are prevented and interdicted as a result of the work of the security forces . |