Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 2 | A special meeting of Warrington Borough Council 's emergency committee called for the cylinders to be removed to give local residents peace of mind . |
| 3 | The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 33 ) , the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 191 ) and the Family Law Act 1986 all provide the opportunity for steps to be taken to return abducted children anywhere within the world , including between England and Scotland and England and Northern Ireland , but do not permit such a state of affairs to occur within England and Wales . |
| 4 | It called for urgent steps to be taken to ensure impartial policing and demanded that the police enforce legislation to stop the carrying of spears and other " cultural " weapons by Inkatha supporters . |
| 5 | Trial conduct : Supplier 's staff should be prepared to accept restrictions on access during the trial to prevent distortion and for planned visits to be controlled to cover specific aspects previously agreed . |
| 6 | Simple restitution by way of returning expropriated lands and property had been ruled out on practical grounds , and instead claimants would receive compensation in the form of vouchers to be used to buy privatized state property ( the scheme was designed to limit the government 's cash liability ) . |
| 7 | If the fractions to be added have different denominators , then before you can add them , you have to alter the denominators so that they are all the same . |
| 8 | A report on suicides at Oxford University has called for ways to be found to reduce academic pressure on students . |
| 9 | She wanted university endowments to be used to fund poor preachers and scholars from humble backgrounds . |
| 10 | In the light of the preceding discussion it is necessary to consider the methodology of comparative industrial relations more fully since it is clear that to be of value the studies need to be appropriately designed and the cases to be compared require careful selection . |
| 11 | Sea-Level Rises The subject is extremely complicated and the increases to be expected undergo constant revision . |
| 12 | Giving evidence before the House of Lords environment subcommittee , Heseltine said that other issues to be tackled include integrated pollution control , eco-auditing and the possibility of an audit inspectorate . |
| 13 | For example , this allows individual modules to be defined to follow different lifecycles and thus behave in different ways . |
| 14 | If the list of modules to be entered include FOREIGN modules , then the files associated with the FOREIGN modules must be transferred to a separate directory ( the secondary directory ) . |
| 15 | The psychosocial factors to be considered include inter-personal and social contacts and relationships , leisure activities , quality of life , stressful life events , conditions at work , unemployment and so on . |
| 16 | SFA lists certain criteria to be used to judge relevant experience and understanding for the particular transaction . |
| 17 | Subsection ( 1 ) enables injunctions to be granted to restrain apprehended contraventions but enables also remedial steps to be ordered . |
| 18 | Matching this change , the survey shows that men from working-class backgrounds were less likely than their fathers to be found holding manual wage-earning positions . |