Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next year 's meeting is to be held in June 1992 in Glasgow , where environmental lobbying is expected to be at such a pitch that delegations may find it politically impossible to approve any renewal of large-scale hunting . |
| 2 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 3 | And — ’ with a grateful glance at Benedict , who was standing by , mute , moved as he had not expected to be by this reunion he had brought about ‘ — thanks to this intelligent and resourceful young man , it is over now . ’ |
| 4 | President Bob Palmer is expected to be among those fielding questions which should get pretty pointed . |
| 5 | Bus companies are expected to be among those competing with ScotRail 's managers to bid for the franchise . |
| 6 | It is only in recent years that our indigenous antiquities have come to be worth enough on the market for systematic looting to be profitable in a financial sense . |
| 7 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 8 | A year of unhealthy life is considered to be worth less than 1 : the value is lower if the quality of life of the unhealthy person is worse . |
| 9 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 10 | Similarly other features such as the Behaviour Modification System are considered to be of little value . |
| 11 | Unfortunately following the death of James IV at the Battle of Flodden , the ship was considered to be of little use and was sold to the French . |
| 12 | Ways into reading text , strategies for coping with monolithic texts as well as texts considered to be of less " value " are arguably as vital a part of the educational process as any learning about text . |
| 13 | The survey was closed on 17th October , 1984 , and , of necessity , the analysis and discussion in this report covers those areas considered to be of most value to SERC that could be assessed quickly : this interim report was required by the end of November , 1984 . |
| 14 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 15 | Many of the glittering pieces are reported to be worth more for their design than the gems they contain . |
| 16 | Clashes also took place with pro-panchayat supporters , and several government ministers were reported to be among those throwing stones at the protesters . |
| 17 | Without in any way making light of the distress of the parents of Tony Bland , it is very important to keep a firm hold of the fact that Tony himself was not reported to be in any pain or distress ; so any change in the treatment he was receiving was not for the purpose of relieving acute suffering of the patient . |
| 18 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 19 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 20 | But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns . |
| 21 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |
| 22 | Base rate can be often seen to be outside this guideline , due mainly to expectations in future movements in interest rates ( see later in chapter ) . |
| 23 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 24 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |
| 25 | Wilson , Lloyd George and Clemençeau , wrote an observer a year or two later , " were in the conduct of public affairs more imperious than any Caesar had ever dared to be in any empire , pagan or Christian " . |
| 26 | Since Croydon Corporation 's tramway system was leased to the B.E.T. , the fact that the Penge services and the Mitcham/Sutton services would be separated by about two miles of Corporation owned track was thought to be of little consequence and it was intended to work the whole system as one with lengthy through services , under the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ fleet name . |
| 27 | All too often , academic freedom is thought to be of such a form that its possession by one group implies its denial to another group . |
| 28 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 29 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 30 | Although it is too early to assess the full effects , some of the rich shellfish and oyster beds offshore are thought to be in some danger . |