Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
2 | Dornier , the German company which built ROSAT , is trying to cover how it failed after being hit by high-energy particles from a solar flare . |
3 | The prom at Southsea , Hants , was closed as 60mph winds threw up rocks and boats sank after being ripped from moorings . |
4 | Other notable features were ( i ) the participation of athletes from the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) and Georgia as a " Unified Team " , a transitional arrangement ; ( ii ) the participation of South Africa , readmitted after being banned since 1960 because of its apartheid policy ; and ( iii ) rigorous testing for drug abuse , which led to the disqualification of five athletes who had tested positive at the games for banned substances ( one each from Lithuania , China and the Unified Team and two from the United States ) , exactly half the number disqualified at the Seoul games in 1988 . |
5 | Between 1982 and 1986 it changed from being described as an uncommon parasite to the most common parasite identified and over 11000 cases were reported between 1985 and 1988 . |
6 | James studied the title page and for twenty seconds pretended to be fascinated by the contents of page one . |
7 | He , man-like , pretended to be engrossed with his tea cup . |
8 | He pretended to be engrossed in making notes until the actors had left the room . |
9 | She pretended to be engrossed in exploring the room , and managed to keep a foot or so away from him as he followed , making her uncomfortably aware of the wall of his body close behind her while she ran her hands over the antique furniture with an assumed interest . |
10 | Any financial assistance proposed to be given as part of the scheme would need to meet with the approval of the court . |
11 | to exercise the power contained in Article 134 ( B ) of the Articles of Association of the Company so that , to the extend determined by the Directors , the holders of Ordinary Shares be permitted to elect to receive new Ordinary Shares of 25p each in the capital of the Company , credited as fully paid , instead of all or part of any dividend declared or proposed to be declared at any time prior to or at the next Annual General Meeting of the Company ; and |
12 | Section 68(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 ( the interpretation section ) defines a trade mark as : a mark … used or proposed to be used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating , or so as to indicate , a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right either as proprietor or registered user to use the mark , whether with or without any indication of the identity of that person . |
13 | The amount of any expenditure proposed to be incurred by the authority under any particular contract for the acquisition of property or the supply of goods or services . |
14 | As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . |
15 | As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . |
16 | ‘ As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure ’ made in compliance with the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . ’ |
17 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
18 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
19 | In addition to that , it might interest you to know that er in excess of a further one hundred and sixty hectares of land is in our U D deposit version , U D P proposed to be released on greenfield sites on the edge of the built up areas . |
20 | Then faster and faster , as she rose to be joined with him in every sense of the word . |
21 | I can understand that with competitions it is correct for employees of all companies involved to be excluded from entry , but surely there is not a problem in selling Hovis to your employees , or any other product for that matter ? |
22 | In February the European Commission proposed a directive requiring waste producers , handlers and the governments involved to be informed of the details of each shipment , a measure with which the European Parliament , on 14 April , roundly agreed . |
23 | His wife 's body was exhumed and found to be riddled with arsenic . |
24 | The direction of a subject 's first eye movement following a question was recorded and found to be related to the type of question being asked . |
25 | Dodman was driving a van found to be loaded with the stolen property . |
26 | Mutant recombinants were constructed by site directed mutagenesis of the G-residues found to be methylated in the DMS-interference analysis . |
27 | Bold Gs show the guanines found to be methylated in the methylation interference analysis . |
28 | Duncan 's answer was short ; he objected to being treated like a child . |
29 | Only that he objected to being scrutinized in the shower . |
30 | It is the portrait of a brash , insensitive but privately vulnerable man , who suffered from being portrayed as the comic perpetrator of ‘ Goldwynisms ’ : ‘ the public stayed away in droves ’ , ‘ include me out ’ , and many more , many apocryphal . |