Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a counterfeit of the spirit that goes on daily , you see , made worse because it has been joined by the visual counterfeit possible in television . |
| 2 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 3 | Separate codes are given for the various mixed degrees which are on offer . |
| 4 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 5 | Very few patients are treated in the prone lying position ( on the stomach ) . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , little has been heard from the fragmented pro-hunting campaign . |
| 7 | Such collections are listed in the main historical bibliographies and there is no point in trying to list them here . |
| 8 | Peaty gleys and peat are developed on the shallow stony tills widespread on hills near Clettraval ( 133 metres ) and Marrival ( 303 metres ) in North Uist , in the central area of Benbecula and , sporadically , north of the Harris mountains . |
| 9 | The bolts have been placed on the broken right wall of the crag to furnish a zigzagging handrail across about 100 feet of rock . |
| 10 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |
| 11 | This will not be surprising since it has by now become apparent that such adjectives inhabit a very restricted niche in the world of English syntax ; in fact they are limited to the prenominal attributive position . |
| 12 | General SVQs have recently been accredited in the following broad occupational areas : |
| 13 | At the latest count , just over 26 million dental patients were treated under the NHS ; 26,320 dentists are registered with the General Dental Council . |
| 14 | The lawns are filled with the usual odd-ball cast of characters who like to congregate in Indian parks : little boys playing cricket in the dry water channels ; a lost-looking village goatherd with his flock ; picnicking Punjabi families with their tiffin-tins ; loving couples reclining against trees ; a saffron-robed Hindu ascetic sitting cross-legged on the grass ; a pair of elderly bent-backed colonels with identical walking sticks . |
| 15 | Many of the larger depressions are filled with the characteristic Mediterranean soil , terra rossa , and are cultivated , mainly for fodder crops and vegetables . |
| 16 | News that the region has backed plans to create purchasing consortiums has been criticized by the British Medical Association . |
| 17 | The inadequacy of this approach has been highlighted by the general economic recession and energy crisis of the 1970's ; it has also had far less impact in the disadvantaged rural areas ( DRAs ) . |
| 18 | Although they look sweet and innocent enough , they 've actually been registered under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act . |
| 19 | A total of 41 parties and coalitions had been registered with the Central Electoral Commission ( CEC ) by Sept. 13 . |
| 20 | There were 170,000 refugees in Croatia with an estimated additional 10,000 unregistered in the republic , and 35,000 in the Serbian area of Krajina , who , according to the Yugoslav Red Cross , had not been registered by the Croatian Red Cross . |
| 21 | A sense of the past may be retained by the use of remembrancers whose representations of it are differentiated from the everyday casual memories of people . |
| 22 | The degree to which opportunities for either vertical or horizontal career mobility have been developed for the paraprofessional social service worker is highly variable among the countries we studied and between geographic areas within these countries . |
| 23 | A NEW technique to enable men with irreversible vasectomies to become fathers has been developed by the Surgical Advisory Service , a private London infertility clinic . |
| 24 | The award has been developed by the Scottish Industrial Liaison Committee for Greenkeeper Training . |
| 25 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 26 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 27 | Variations in pension cost , which are identified as a result of actuarial valuations , are amortised over the average expected remaining working lives of employees . |
| 28 | Although undue influence has been given to the alleged psychosexual immaturity of anorexia nervosa patients in the past , issues of sexuality need to be addressed as with other adolescent patients . |
| 29 | It is always possible , therefore , that too much weight has been given to the reported cognitive responses . |
| 30 | The regular freighter from Denmark had docked and along the quayside barges were moored , filled with coconuts and spices which had been transshipped from the large Oriental freighters at the Royal group of docks downriver . |