Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 3 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 4 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 5 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 6 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 7 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 8 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 9 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 10 | Some 10,000 troops had been flown into Caracas in response to the unrest , and official casualty figures put the number of people killed at 256 , including two soldiers and a police officer , and the number injured at 1,831 , with deaths and injuries mostly caused by gunfire . |
| 11 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 12 | But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so . |
| 13 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 14 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 15 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 16 | Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false . |
| 17 | The basic argument with which we are concerned here is that the low level of female crime is a result of the expectations and constraints that are placed on women by society . |
| 18 | Duties are placed on inspectors by Article 30(8) to disclose certain information to persons employed at premises to which the Order applies to assist in keeping such persons adequately informed about matters likely to affect their health , safety and welfare . |
| 19 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 20 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 21 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 22 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 23 | Ninety thousand tonnes of pesticides , solvents , metals and plastics are incinerated per year in burn zones just 100 miles off the British coast . |
| 24 | ’ 'T IS bruited about that the king is unwell and that you are given to displays of temperament ! |
| 25 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 26 | Detail of normal oocytes , and oocytes showing a variety of anomalies , are given in papers for mouse by Speed ( 47 ) and Speed and Chandley ( 48 ) and for the human by Speed ( 25 ) . |
| 27 | For that reason they are given in detail in Appendix 6 , The Effect of Synonym Storage Techniques on Search Times . |
| 28 | 1.5.3 such other fitting out works as the Tenant shall [ reasonably ] require ] The tenant 's works may of course be far more extensive and the above works are given by way of illustration only . |
| 29 | Organic models of nature had often been sustained by analogies between microcosm and macrocosm , between man as an organism and the rest of creation . |
| 30 | Secondly , paralinguistic features of the ‘ vocal effect ’ type are treated as part of intonation , and it is not made sufficiently clear how these are to be distinguished from prosodic features . |