Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb -s] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 3 | It would seem that everything between them has been ruined — but no , they decide to treat the day as if it had never been ; and when he has gone Emily picks up her goose-quill pen and again writes ‘ Dear Edmund ’ . |
| 4 | The objection therefore is that since power and property have separated , the legitimating link between them has been broken . |
| 5 | The validity of these tests , however , has been assessed by few and unconfirmed studies , in patients who were not taking NSAID , and direct comparison between them has been lacking . |
| 6 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 7 | A prominent male interloper is James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–1879 ) the British physicist after whom has been named Maxwell Montes the tallest mountains on Venus , reaching an altitude of nearly +12 km . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 9 | If a body approved by the Secretary of State have provided or propose to provide a seamen 's canteen the need for which has been certified by him after consultation with the Merchant Navy Welfare Board , the licensing board within whose jurisdiction the said canteen is or will be situated may grant a licence under this Part of this Act authorising the person who is the manager of the canteen to sell alcoholic liquor in the canteen . |
| 10 | They probably succeeded those of the second-century vicus , some evidence for which has been gained in excavations . |
| 11 | In sum about 25,000 people were able to appreciate the live transmission of Un ballo in maschera direct from the stage of the Opéra- Bastille , tickets for which has been sold out for months . |
| 12 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 13 | They are all listed , and not one of them has been denied . |
| 14 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 15 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 16 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 17 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 18 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 19 | " Not one of them has been stolen since the seed was sown . |
| 20 | None of them has been identified , so all the old grannies are champing toothlessly today . ’ |
| 21 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |
| 22 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 23 | None of them has been offended ; they 've all been fantastically enthusiastic and supportive . ’ |
| 24 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 25 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 26 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 27 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 28 | Finally , inward investors find attractive the measures that we have taken to improve training and skills , almost every one of which has been opposed by Labour . |
| 29 | It is flanked by two towers four storeys high ( one of which has been damaged and has only three storeys left ) . |
| 30 | International Business Machines Corp and IBM Credit Corp appear to be seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market , Reuter reports from New York ; the loans are said to be being arranged by Credit Suisse and syndicated to a group of relationship banks , each of which has been asked to commit around $500m . |