Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 2 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 3 | In the unlikely event that matters can not be resolved to your satisfaction in the resort , the Representative will ask you to record details of any problems on a Holiday Report Form , of which you will be given a copy , and you must then follow up your report by writing to the Customer Relations Department at our Birmingham Head Office ( quoting the numbers of your Holiday Reference and Holiday Report forms ) within 42 days of returning from resort . |
| 4 | The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism . |
| 5 | A certificate of deposit ( CD ) states that a deposit has been made with a bank for a fixed period of time at the end of which it will be repaid with interest . |
| 6 | Or , to put it in another way , there must be at least two non-synonymous descriptive phrases of which it can be said both that they are co-extensive in respect of the given non-meaning and characterise this non-meaning in an essential way . |
| 7 | Representing the Prussian general staff were the generals von Roon and von Moltke , and perhaps most importantly , Bismarck , who later described the occasion as a ‘ simple family dinner ’ , a description of which it could be said that those who believe it will believe anything . |
| 8 | That statement is also an apt description of what she will be asked to do at NIST . |
| 9 | The student is informed of what she will be expected to do after she has learned the concept . |
| 10 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 11 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |