Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [subord] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , they were to be forgiven because the course they adopted , of ‘ setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society' seemed natural to them . |
| 2 | Neither the court nor a Chief Constable could compel an officer to do acts which can only lawfully be done if the officer himself with reasonable cause suspects that a breach of the peace has occurred or is imminently likely to occur . |
| 3 | He will be missed although the contribution he has made will remain with us in the present form of N C V O , to which he very greatly contributed . |
| 4 | Even when a new field seems overcrowded there is usually good business still to be had because the field itself expands under the pressure of the newcomers as they advertise to gain market share . |
| 5 | This exemption can not be used if the client itself is an Authorised Person under the FSA . |
| 6 | The danger that a landowner 's heir would have to pay relief on succeeding to his estate , and , if a minor , would have to become a ward of the Crown , could be avoided if the landowner himself , during his lifetime , enfeoffed trustees with the lands , reserving to the ‘ use ’ of himself and his heirs the annual income . |
| 7 | Oppression can only be overcome when the producers themselves manage production , when workers and peasants exercise self-management . |
| 8 | Many writers have said that English word stress is so difficult to predict that it is best to treat stress placement as a property of the individual word , to be learned when the word itself is learned . |
| 9 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would say more generally that whenever money is paid to the revenue pending the outcome of a dispute which , to the knowledge of both parties , will determine whether or not the revenue are entitled to the money , an agreement for the repayment of the money if and when the dispute is resolved in the taxpayer 's favour must inevitably be implied unless the statute itself produces that result , as it does , for example , in cases falling within paragraph 10(4) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 . |
| 11 | A WOMAN died and three others were injured when the car they were travelling in was involved in an accident on the access road to RAF Machrahanish , Campbeltown , yesterday . |
| 12 | Painters Robin Phelps , from Brockweir , in Gloucestershire , and Eric Sullivan , from Tintern , in Gwent , were killed when the gantry they were working on collapsed in September nineteen ninety . |
| 13 | A lot of the pain and loss is felt when the parent they have known and loved becomes so altered . |
| 14 | [ … ] The social efficiency decision rule , that the optimal quantity of a good is produced when the amount it adds to social benefits ( its marginal social benefit ) equals the amount it adds to social costs ( its marginal social cost ) is difficult to apply . |
| 15 | More unhappiness and depression is caused because the person who is suffering spends too much time regretting or resenting what has happened in the past or anticipating fearfully what may occur in the future . |
| 16 | Adequate security for loans is required since the EIB itself borrows at commercial rates . |
| 17 | ‘ And I , ’ said Auguste eagerly , ‘ heard of a man who was poisoned because the coffee he drank was strained through a linen cloth which months earlier had been soaked in atropine solution , and mistakenly used again . |
| 18 | Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived . |
| 19 | He was hurt because the reputation he prized , perhaps most of all , of being an all-round expert on the farm would now be jeopardized : and when Walter Cater met the horseman he admired most in the district , as he did every Sunday morning , he was asked quite seriously : ‘ What ! |
| 20 | The future of the Lawrence Challenge Trophy , awarded to the scorer of the season 's fastest century , was assured when the company which has taken over Walter Lawrence & Co. returned the trophy to the Lawrence family . |
| 21 | A MAN was killed when the van he was travelling in crashed off the road and hit a fence and a tree in North Northumberland yesterday . |
| 22 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |