Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are parted from their parents on hatching and raised without an anemone . |
| 2 | The ruling collegium of the Defence Ministry , comprising deputy defence ministers and commanders of forces , had replaced over half its membership after the coup , as reported on Sept. 16 ; Marshal Dmitri Yazov and Gen. Valentin Varennikov , former Defence Minister and Deputy Interior Minister , had both been dismissed following their arrests in August [ see p. 38371 ] . |
| 3 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 4 | It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry . |
| 5 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 6 | Curiosity may have been aroused by their performances but , according to Watman , ‘ they enjoyed incredible popularity at the time and there was never any suggestion of race as a factor ’ ( personal communication , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Thus , on Jan. 30 parliament co-opted 120 new members to replace CPCz members who had resigned or who had been recalled by their constituencies . |
| 8 | In the western United States travellers encountered the native Americans , the Indians who had so often been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods by the railway companies . |
| 9 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 10 | It is , of course , true that such officers in many cases have powers which enable them to do lawfully what a private person might not do , but the question whether their acts are justified by their powers must be decided in proceedings before the ordinary courts . |
| 11 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 12 | ‘ As lifeboats become faster yet more demands are placed on their crews . |
| 13 | Casks are placed on their ends in the cellar and a long tube known as an extractor is inserted through the tap hole . |
| 14 | They will retain this tonic immobility even if they are placed on their backs , giving certain human tricksters the chance to claim that they are capable of ‘ hypnotising frogs ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I must not omit to tell you , ’ wrote Gould nonchalantly in a letter to Jardine on 16 January 1837 , ‘ that Mr Darwin 's Collection of Birds ( made during the late survey under Capn FitzRoy ) are exceedingly fine ; they are placed in my hands to describe ; some of the forms are very singular particularly those from the Gallipagos [ sic ] . |
| 16 | In four of the illustrations the defendant appears naked after he has been mugged of his clothes . |
| 17 | Many women from immigrant communities are hidden by their men , who may be entrepreneurs , and they fear offending both their men and the community by complaints about their work . |
| 18 | A NUMBER of North West names have been honoured for their services to the community or their profession . |
| 19 | As long as a strong argument or sound reasons are given for your opinions they will stand on their own . |
| 20 | Some suggestions for reading are given in their sections by particular departments . |
| 21 | Other examples of unlawful objects are given by their Lordships in the Crofter case . |
| 22 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 23 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |
| 24 | Imagination was in short supply , and the poverty of yesterday had been banished from their memories , the happy-go-luckiness along with the hardships . |
| 25 | A friendship , begun in their twenties , had been sustained throughout their lives . |
| 26 | Disillusionment with the way they are treated by their firms has led many trainees , along with more experienced dealers to look for new jobs . |
| 27 | Demeaning offences fall into two broad categories , those which are treated by our participants as part of the generally resented background of personal devaluation , and those which call for specific retribution according to rule . |
| 28 | The odds on returning at all were fairly poor by the sound of it ; for , according to Ibu , of the ninety prahus which had left Bira the previous year , five had still not returned , and no word had been heard from their crews . |
| 29 | Hopefully our readers will pass on the message to as many people as possible , with the hope that this particular con man , and others like him , are stopped in their tracks . |
| 30 | And I mean er er you could argue that you know , because he 's er erm you know targeting the young and people who are at school in particular , the fact that , you know , if he 's successful in targeting those , then by nineteen forty nine those school children will be sort of will be the , the peasants , will be farmers and therefore will be more willing , you know , having been indoctrinated by his thoughts er or , or by the communist way of thinking , then erm for the revolution . |