Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going very slowly and breathing heavily in her resolve that not a drop of whisky should be spilled . |
| 2 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 3 | The cost of unity could be done through a gradual restructuring of the Ulster economy to make it similar to the Irish Republic . |
| 4 | Now , there is a basic constitutional principle , embodied in the Bill of Rights of 1688/9 , that the levying of taxes must be authorized by statute , and so there is an argument for saying that non-statutory rules made by the Revenue which effectively determine a taxpayer 's liability to tax are ‘ unconstitutional ’ . |
| 5 | Ideas about tactics and style of play could be exchanged and there was an acknowledgment that football was now a multi-faceted rather than a monolithic concept . |
| 6 | In summary , the purposes of assessment might be viewed under three headings : ( a ) Information for the benefit of pupils , parents , teachers or employers . |
| 7 | As always , the prima facie method of assessment may be displaced and damages awarded for any loss which falls within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale , Victoria Laundry v. Newman Industries ( above ) is an example of this . |
| 8 | A number of other types of assessment can be made of advertising in the market-place . |
| 9 | It is also because improving practice in the area of assessment can be done without requiring large increases in financial resources . |
| 10 | The actual tests and other forms of assessment will be developed and piloted by various organizations on behalf of the government . |
| 11 | written medical evidence , or evidence of compassionate circumstances relevant to the performance of a candidate in cumulative or other forms of assessment must be presented to the course director or senior course tutor by the date on which the work was due to be submitted . |
| 12 | It is not suggested that the results of assessment should be adjusted to take account of characteristic differences between groups in performance . |
| 13 | Although recognising that many such ‘ Go , No-Go ’ decisions are made after a brief examination by one or two executives , he argues that more ‘ scientific ’ or ‘ realistic ’ comparative methods of assessment should be used . |
| 14 | At age 16 the General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) should be the main form of assessment , especially in the core subjects ; ( e ) the results of assessment should be used both formatively to help better teaching and to inform decisions about next steps for a pupil , and summatively at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 to inform parents in simple and clear terms about their child 's progress . |
| 15 | the results of assessment should be used both formatively to help better teaching and to inform decisions about next steps for a pupil , and summatively at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 to inform parents in simple and clear terms about their child 's progress . |
| 16 | Both NCC and SEAC will be advising the Secretary of State about what information on the curriculum and results of assessment should be required to be made available to parents , or to be published more widely . |
| 17 | To advise the Secretary of State on the practical considerations which should govern all assessment including testing of attainment at age ( approximately ) 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 within a national curriculum , including the marking scale or scales and kinds of assessment including testing to be used , the need to differentiate so that the assessment can promote learning across a range of abilities , the relative roles of informative and of diagnostic assessment , the uses to which the results of assessment should be put , the moderation requirements needed to secure credibility of assessments , and the publication and other services needed to support the system — with a view to securing assessment and testing arrangements which are simple to administer , understandable by all in and outside the education service , cost effective and supportive of learning in schools . |
| 18 | The vigour with which changes were imposed would help to create public confidence in his administration ; and a measure of ruthlessness would be needed to overcome the conservatism of the military establishment . |
| 19 | It no longer functioned as a club ; members could not understand what all the others were up to , and were aware that the interests of physicists and of biologists might be opposed . |
| 20 | Bottom left : The continuous linking of parallels can be used to suggest a third dimension . |
| 21 | The geographical image of states must be replaced by the behavioural image of systems . |
| 22 | In this chapter , while occasionally branching out to consider wider issues , the implications of the foregoing for the authority of states will be examined . |
| 23 | Assessment of progress will be carried out over the two year period and will be based on the completion of design notebooks , workbooks , pattern drafts , knitted samples and garments and finally a written examination . |
| 24 | ‘ The British diet has started to change , but a far greater rate of progress can be achieved if we now shift to a positive message about what to eat , rather than going down the old road of saying do n't eat certain foods . |
| 25 | It should begin to open up negotiations with the statutory services which come under the SAD umbrella to see what sort of progress should be made on this . |
| 26 | Cripps 's message was clear : the living conditions of many gypsies was scandalous , and no improvement in the slow rate of progress could be expected without a high level of commitment by central government . |
| 27 | A considerable overlap of values can be seen in controls and patients with oesophagitis Grade 0 and I , as well as among all oesophagitis groups . |
| 28 | Four miles away at Caerleon , the ruins of one of the three main military bases in Roman Britain , the Legionary Fortress of Isca can be explored . |
| 29 | This sixth characteristic is that of accessi-bility , for it is around this concept that the nature and fairness of differentiation could be decided . |
| 30 | This habit of bingeing must be broken . |