Example sentences of "[det] [be] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We also use those homes as centres for day care , and the financial effects of that are estimated and taken out of these calculations , but I think it 's important for members to remember that your residential homes are n't purely and simply providing only residential care , they are also centres for day care in that particular area .
2 Approximately equal amounts of each are powdered and mixed together thoroughly .
3 Subsequently , most Scottish rural areas , mid- and North Wales , the Pennines and parts of Devon and Cornwall have at one time or another been designated as Assisted Areas ( see figure 3.3a ) .
4 Some are designated as threatened or endangered in the I.U.C.N. 's ( International Union for the Conservation of Nature ) Red Data Books ; others , are still relatively numerous in the wild , but offer an educational encounter of value .
5 Some are awarded after supervised individual research presented in a thesis .
6 Would n't this be seen as tipping the balance ?
7 Few were noted as making prolonged stays and it is difficult to assign any particular record as a wintering or passage bird .
8 ‘ A few were tortured and executed in secret .
9 Some were beaten and tortured first .
10 Some were given or sold to favoured high-ranking officials and court favourites , a practice developed by Constantius II .
11 Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate .
12 Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground .
13 Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death .
14 Some were imprisoned or banished when they refused to be silenced .
15 Most evidence is taken in public — sometimes with radio microphones or television cameras present — and all of this is recorded and published .
16 This in turn rests on how we define the distinctiveness of each class and how we think this is blurred or enhanced as a result of broad socioeconomic processes .
17 That the preparation of a development plan should be a matter of self-training follows from those steps which the SDPP suggests , for instance , in auditing the curriculum : check whether the planned curriculum meets the statutory requirement ; identify possible gaps or overlap between subject areas ; ensure that where two or more subjects or activities are concerned with the same range of objectives , this is recognized and used positively ; analyse the curriculum for each year group in terms of curriculum objectives within and outside the National Curriculum ; decide in which part of the school curriculum to locate work leading to the National Curriculum and other school curriculum objectives ; assess how much teaching time is available and how best to use it ; compare planned provision with actual provision ; judge whether curriculum issues need to be among priorities of development ( DES 1989e : 7 )
18 When this is given as written practice it is usually between 250 and 3,000 words in prose on a given subject .
19 It is worth the effort to convey something of how this is done but do not worry if you find the remaining paragraphs of this section rather abstract and demanding .
20 This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie .
21 So long as this is done where improving the outcome is more important than deciding for oneself this acceptance of authority , far from being either irrational or an abdication of moral responsibility , is in fact the most rational course and the right way to discharge one 's responsibilities .
22 It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time .
23 This is seen as using RDS as a data channel of very limited capacity in conjunction with a speech synthesis chip or possibly some form of printer in the car ( it could provide automatic translation when travelling abroad ) as a means of sending ‘ traffic telegrams ’ to cars without interrupting the radio programmes .
24 If this is seen as suggesting reduced left hemisphere language representation in those with sinistral relatives it would be consonant with the findings from brain damaged right handers indicating greater bilaterality of verbal functions ( Hécaen et al. , 1981 ) and increased recovery from aphasia ( Luria , 1966 ; 1970 ; Hécaen and Sauguet , 1971 ) in association with familial sinistrality .
25 Here the ‘ essence ’ of the popular is constant , though whether this is seen as proffered from above or engendered from below , whether ‘ the people ’ is regarded as an active , progressive historical subject or a manipulated dupe , varies .
26 This is seen as threatening in a country where repression and war are every day facts of life and their work is often dangerous .
27 This is seen as representing an opportunity for the club to achieve its objectives and must be seriously considered .
28 The Council will also be producing in-service materials for teachers to help them cope with the changes and , provided this is prepared and delivered in close collaboration with local education authorities , as is the stated intention , this should be very helpful provided the Council avoids being prescriptive about teaching style .
29 However , on exposure to air , this is oxidized and precipitated as ferric hydroxide , which is usually removed from the water before use .
30 All this is stored and cared for in the six large unheated cupboards in the linen room .
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