Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 2 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 3 | By 1898 national interest had been aroused and the British Institute of Undertakers was formed , succeeding where the United Company of Undertakers had failed 160 years previously . |
| 4 | The status of mother and child is indicated by the wealth of space within which they are placed and the expensive quality of the ornament and decoration of the interior . |
| 5 | It had a peak of over 31,000 contracts on 5 October 1990 when sterling joined the ERM , the announcement of which had been delayed until the main London cash markets closed . |
| 6 | The numbers of the 140k residues at the amino- and carboxy-terminal ends of each deletion polypeptide are given and the corresponding restriction sites used for the isolation and cloning of gene 62 sequences into the T7 expression vectors are shown above . |
| 7 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 8 | At the same time , there is continuous pressure from creative people for simplicity in the briefs they are given and the creative brief , clearly , needs to set out the strategy in a way that is intelligible to , and usable by , the creative team : if it is n't , it 's useless . |
| 9 | When the outstanding plan of consent are completed and the industrial state in place anticipate the traffic will be intensified . |
| 10 | It had never been intended that the flimsy structure should support such a weighty assembly , so with a creaking and a cracking and much shouting and swearing down it went in a flurry of legs and arms and broken planks and red Australian dust . |
| 11 | IT has long been recognized that the electrical conductivity of the lower continental crust is anomalously high . |
| 12 | It has been recognized that the European Directives are increasingly affecting what happens in the workplace . |
| 13 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 14 | ‘ Information about the route has been leaked before the official announcement was made . |
| 15 | Two physicists at the University of Sydney in Australia had a piece of copper tubing , used as a lightning conductor , which had been crushed as the electrical current passed through it . |
| 16 | But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity . |
| 17 | Instead , they are inhabited and the economic and social activities of the rural communities are expected to continue more or less normally . |
| 18 | In the case of a purchaser issuing quoted shares , the difficulties of knowing whether the 10 per cent threshold is exceeded and whether class tests are appropriate are compounded if the total consideration has not been determined and depends on completion accounts or an earn out . |
| 19 | Since then his name has been vandalized and the weather-worn inscription from Nuptials at Tipasa is already difficult to read . |
| 20 | Rusted hooks hung from antiquated iron girders above him , the windows had long since been vandalized and the faded walls were daubed with obscene graffiti . |
| 21 | Steel-Maitland also explained to Lord Robert Cecil that " it has been arranged that the National Conservative Union should send out leaflets produced by several of the ancillary organizations , such as the Tariff Reform League , the Anti-Socialist Union , the Primrose League , the London Municipal Society etc . " |
| 22 | For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) . |
| 23 | It has been calculated that the 1½-inch quills penetrate tissue in this way at a rate of an inch a day . |
| 24 | Immunoassays for the measurement of pancreatic group I PLA2 and non-pancreatic synovial type group II PLA2 have recently been developed and the present study investigated the presence of group I and group II PLA2s in serum samples from 36 patients with severe acute pancreatitis . |
| 25 | We have been taught that the only solution for us is to take our sick body to a doctor who will make decisions about it , an all-powerful doctor who carries our life or death within his hands . |
| 26 | Equally important , Britons have been taught that the political system works . |
| 27 | FILMING of a new multi-million pound TV war epic has been halted because the leading man , actor Paul McGann , has been hurt — playing football . |
| 28 | If it might reasonably have been foreseen that the pregnant woman might be injured by his carelessness , it must follow that the possibility of injury on birth to the child she was carrying must equally be taken to have been reasonably foreseeable . … |
| 29 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
| 30 | This implies that the problem of the selection of the risky securities to include in the investor 's portfolio has been solved and the only question to be answered is whether to lend or borrow , and how much to lend or borrow . |