Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maintenance of this repertoire is made more difficult , in that the majority of children in Roman Catholic schools seem to be taught contemporary hymns and other religious music by religious education teachers , rather than by the music staff . |
| 2 | Such anger and defensiveness is commonplace and understandable because our society is accustomed to the stereotype pictures of alcoholism and drug or other addictions as disorders of weak-willed and immoral people who need to be taught firm lessons on how to behave themselves properly rather than as ill people who need to be helped to become well . |
| 3 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 4 | The Brahman Centre for learning mental skills is in Provence and you 'll be one of a select few at a time to be taught these techniques . |
| 5 | Mentally handicapped children , especially those with severe handicaps , need to be taught social skills which may be naturally acquired in a comparatively short time by children of higher intelligence . |
| 6 | Figure 2.3 illustrates a production flow in the TV industry with just three stages , but these would have to be extended many times to include all the firms involved . |
| 7 | In 1279 Pecham had ordered the general cursing of a wide range of malefactors against the church ; this was to be pronounced four times a year in each parish church with solemn ritual . |
| 8 | Because these elections have to be organized three years running . |
| 9 | I asked for this to be arranged twelve months ago , but it is still in the hands of the solicitor , who does not answer letters . |
| 10 | Proceeds from the game will be given to charity The game is to be at the end of August at Northallerton 's ground on a date to be arranged Former players from the 60s to the present day are asked to contact John Murdoch ( 0609771139 ) or David Thorne ( 0609779465 ) |
| 11 | ‘ To be recognised 8,000 miles from your land is magical , ’ he says . |
| 12 | As the President of a leading textile firm put it ‘ When the ship is about to be wrecked heavier cargoes should be thrown off to sea ’ ( quoted in Tsuda 1980 p.2 ) . |
| 13 | Such experiences would need to be repeated many times before there was a lasting effect , but this , of course is irrelevant in the context of the immensity of evolutionary time . |
| 14 | It was an experience to be repeated many times as the canal climbed to the top of the Pennines . |
| 15 | Probably yes , but no one can be certain of safety in this context ; the field is too new , and since treatment may have to be repeated many times , even an unlikely event may eventually happen . |
| 16 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 17 | It 's early morning on the Forest Vale industrial estate in Cinderford , and company boss Roger Sanderson starts work outside his plastic mouldings factory.But while other businessmen are checking their ansaphones and fax machines , he 's faced with swilling down sheep droppings left by the flocks that roam the estate.It 's a task that has to be repeated several times a day , and Mr Sanderson has had enough. : |
| 18 | They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens . |
| 19 | That is to say , we shall recognise sense-units along a sense-spectrum — to be called local senses — by their participation in distinct lexical fields ( here , to be understood merely as sets of lexical items interrelated by determinate meaning relations such as oppositeness , hyponymy , part-whole , etc . ) . |
| 20 | As Michael Paffard puts it in 1978 : " Not all men [ are ] equally qualified by learning or experience to make value judgements about literature or to be called literary critics . " |
| 21 | A gantry traffic light will be installed above the centre of the road , hand railing will provide additional protection for pedestrians , and the bus stop outside Milroy Walk is likely to be moved some metres south and recessed into the wide pavement . |
| 22 | He had rammed his foot down on the accelerator , the Mercedes shot forward , the little grey 's neck jerked frantically and she cartwheeled violently in the air crashing to the ground , to be dragged ten feet before Angel braked . |
| 23 | To walk the overgrown towpath to Branson 's barge , bang your head as you descended the small , brass-railed ladder and step over the pile of nappies ; to be served stir-fried vegetables and noodles , fresh orange juice and Perrier ; to be treated to a private exposition of what were becoming the most famous teeth in the record industry — to attain these was a sign that a group was truly regarded as important . |
| 24 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 25 | Indeed , a number of other schemes are being undertaken such as the new granulator at Cambrian Stone 's Llanwern site , due to be completed several weeks ahead of programme , and the new screens and bins at Craigantlet . |
| 26 | And Test prop Kelvin Skerrett had to be replaced six minutes after the break . |
| 27 | That some formality may continue to be required for certain controversial treatments should not be allowed to complicate the much more commonplace decisions that have to be made many times every day in acute hospitals . |
| 28 | You , as beneficial owner , assign to Oxford University Press the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in respect of the product by the law in any part of the world , authorise Oxford University Press to make or cause to be made any alterations , adaptations and additions to the product , and waive your rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 . |
| 29 | Mr Gould said : ‘ Local people and local consultations must be the basis of re-organisation , but there is an extremely strong case for the old county boroughs such as Darlington to be made unitary authorities controlling their own services . ’ |
| 30 | Twisting the rotary speedbrake selector on the front left console to out enables them to be pumped out easily , while pressing the red emerg undercarriage button alongside allows the right biceps to be exercised 26 times in cranking down the wheels . |