Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 2 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 3 | In our society today the use of an organ is a rarefied form of museum culture , whereas guitars and synthesisers are heard and seen every day on television . |
| 4 | Intraperitoneal injections are given while holding the animal as in Figure lb on its back with the head slightly down . |
| 5 | First , it has meant that those genes are favoured that have the property of ‘ cooperating ’ with those other genes that they are likely to meet in circumstances that favour cooperation . |
| 6 | This case has been discussed at length , especially in the literature on international trade ( see for example Jones , 1971a , and Magee , 1976 ) , and has been treated as representing the effects of unionization by Johnson and Mieszkowski ( 1970 ) . |
| 7 | The wage differential ( ) has been treated as representing the effects of unionization , but this does not seem a particularly satisfactory way of investigating union behaviour . |
| 8 | This would require , however , all women to have abortions who are diagnosed as having a Down 's child . |
| 9 | Yet one in every 200 people are diagnosed as having a schizophrenic illness at some point in their lives . |
| 10 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 11 | [ T ] he mental health sector will be working in collaboration with the health service in developing a ‘ Care Programme Approach ’ to the provision of services to people who have been diagnosed as having a serious mental illness . |
| 12 | You have tried to either update a product which has already been registered or to register a product which has already been registered . |
| 13 | A method has been developed that allows the measurement of metabolism in ileocolonoscopic biopsy specimens , and this has been used to assess butyrate and glutamine metabolism in quiescent UC and controls . |
| 14 | The problem occurs because the child has not been taught and learned an alternative , desirable , behaviour to the PB . |
| 15 | This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt . |
| 16 | Since the development of the plate tectonics model , the Andes have sometimes been regarded as representing a classic example of the orogenic consequences of the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath an overriding continental plate . |
| 17 | NILTs have always been regarded as representing the acceptable face of tribunals . |
| 18 | ‘ Consumers ’ or ‘ users ’ have traditionally been regarded as having no realistic , lucid , practical views to offer , and many professionals feel that the very nature of mental illness precludes users of services from making a sensible contribution . |
| 19 | Again , the executor and administrator have long been regarded as having the deceased 's possession continued in them ; when they assume office their title relates back to his death . |
| 20 | The system uses a gas burner to heat the spraying sheet , thereby changing the way in which the drops are formed and producing a narrow drop-size spectrum , with few small particles . |
| 21 | To express the awkwardness of the Spartan position Thucydides uses awkward language ( i.88 ) : the Spartans voted , he says , that the ‘ libations ’ had been broken and took a decision for war not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of their allies as because they were afraid of the growth of Athenian power . |
| 22 | There were six staff present including the Project Coordinator , the new teacher-librarian , the head , representatives of basic studies , maths and science , and a social education teacher who had been designated as holding an implementation of policy post ( or " 10p posts " as they were commonly called ) . |
| 23 | Elements which can all appear at the same position within a document are regarded as forming a model class : for example , the class phrase includes all elements which can appear within paragraphs but not spanning them , while the class chunk includes all elements which can not appear within paragraphs ( such as paragraphs , for example ) . |
| 24 | In the Acts and Epistles Christians are regarded as experiencing the Kingdom as a present reality . |
| 25 | ‘ One of the main worries of small businesses is their relationship with their bankers who too often are regarded as adopting a cavalier attitude , ’ says Taylor . |
| 26 | Institutions , such as the Cabinet , are sucked out of the larger political and societal context that gives them meaning , and they are regarded as having a life and importance all of their own . |
| 27 | Financial advisors are regarded as having a special responsibility to ensure that all directors are aware of their responsibilities under the City Code . |
| 28 | If the central provinces are taken as typical , the neo-populist case is persuasive ; if , on the other hand , the outlying provinces are regarded as blazing a trail which central Russia would follow , it falls to the ground . |
| 29 | She had not been consulted and had no wish to part with any of her land . |
| 30 | Organisational changes have been introduced and a policy statement has been formulated that provides the blueprint for care for the future , and ensures that it will be conducted in accordance with the latest and best practices of the nursing profession . |