Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters of introduction to international trade officers in banks in the foreign centres with whom meetings can be arranged . |
| 2 | The project is being supervised by Peter Wellburn , Head of Periodicals , and John Nicklen , Head of Serials Cataloguing , to whom queries may be directed . |
| 3 | ‘ Above all else , he was a gentleman , someone with whom disagreements could be had on occasion , but who could always be respected for his firm views , honestly held and clearly put . ’ |
| 4 | A statutory register for foreign lawyers was established in October 1991 to define recognised foreign legal professions and individual categories of foreign lawyers with whom solicitors will be permitted to form multi-national partnerships ( MNPs ) . |
| 5 | A review of screening and preventive care of older people by the Royal College of General Practitioners published in 1987 indicated particular ‘ high risk ’ groups for whom screening might be targeted . |
| 6 | Since Sotheby 's catalogue categorically stated that their version was ‘ unknown ’ to me , it seemed reasonable that my views should be made known to them . |
| 7 | I 'm ashamed to say my Artists can be found anywhere around the house , not at all in order . |
| 8 | The decisions of the committee would be crucial in determining whether my proposals would be enacted . |
| 9 | My enthusiasm can be aroused very easily , however . |
| 10 | We shall have to live quietly , because all my money will be gone . ’ |
| 11 | Within the community the question is which site will win the first , and both inside and outside there is the question of ‘ How much of my money will be sacrificed to support the CIT ? ’ — areas of science that have no immediate connection to fusion nevertheless get funded from the same sources , such as the Department of Energy . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just a caretaker , until my successor could be trained , ’ he said more gently . |
| 13 | I question both the justice of all governments and the principle by which my taxes can be used to pay for machines of mass destruction . |
| 14 | Mr Moore added : ‘ Bulletins about my progress will be issued in due course but neither my wife nor myself will be making any further statements of any kind with regard to my medical condition . |
| 15 | I am going to attempt such a classification not with the belief that it is either scientific — this University has a Department of Criminology , and I am sure that my attempts would be regarded as very crude in those august circles — nor with the idea that the classification will be exhaustive , but by way of illustration of my essential point that different criminal phenomena , or anti-law-and-order phenomena , require different types of reaction on the part of the rest of society and imply different prognoses . |
| 16 | I turned and plunged downwards , hoping my footfalls would be masked by his , making-plans as I went . |
| 17 | Patterns of Ministry to my mind can be interpreted as patterns of sharing and partnership is active and not fussy . |
| 18 | Because although I feel passionately abut the Gulf war — how unnecessary it was , how obscene its prosecution is , how devastating its outcome may yet be — I know that my opposition would be diminished , subverted even , by marching with the Committee to Stop War in the Gulf . |
| 19 | But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished . |
| 20 | My term can be seen as being analogous to the propensity to unproductive consumption , but this is not the same as the Keynesian propensity to consume . |
| 21 | ‘ Luckily it 's a very old bath and only my shoulders could be seen , ’ she managed to joke . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been silent ’ ( this was news to the Lionisers ) ‘ but my lips shall be sealed no longer . |
| 23 | Glaring at Matt , she snapped , ‘ How dare you say my ears could be used for horse blinkers ? |
| 24 | I knew if I cut the anchor rope at the wrong moment , the Hispaniola would make a sudden move out to sea , and my boat might be knocked out of the water . |
| 25 | However , my grief will be contained within the expectation that such an event was likely to occur before too long , because of the age of my parent . |
| 26 | In considering the issue of entitlement to access , my college would be required to look at two groups of learners hitherto excluded — students with profound or multiple disabilities and students with challenging behaviour . |
| 27 | Of course , it could be argued that my work will be shown . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't see television as an institution , nor as a continuum of programming into which my work must be fitted . |
| 29 | My equipment can be set at a frequency to emit sound waves that will obviate that effect . |
| 30 | It may be that my help will be called for . |