Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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61 They recommended that grants for land improvement and drainage should be withdrawn from Section 43 areas and that all capital grant schemes in the LFA should be modified to encourage a wide range of conservation measures .
62 A separate problem , examined in the following pages , is how to decide which titles should be withdrawn from any one section of the stock .
63 New evidence of ozone layer thinning in the Northern Hemisphere has spurred governments to tighten still further their timetables for CFCs to be withdrawn from industrial use .
64 At present , the Australian stations are served by three ageing chartered supply vessels — one of which is to be withdrawn from service in 1987/88 .
65 In fact , for every new warhead introduced with cruise missiles , a warhead will be withdrawn from NATO 's existing inventory on top of the withdrawal of 1000 warheads that the
66 I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice .
67 It says that life-support equipment could be withdrawn from some terminally-ill people .
68 To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders .
69 Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces .
70 Patients deteriorating to the point when renal dialysis is considered should be withdrawn from the transplant list .
71 American and Russian armed forces would have to be withdrawn from Korea as soon as possible and within three months of a Korean government being formed .
72 Russian troops were to be withdrawn from Manchuria .
73 Mothers of young children were to be withdrawn from the labour market to be supported by allowances from the state and by their more fully employed husbands .
74 In this statement to the House of Commons Hurd stated that ‘ in the public interest ’ funding should be withdrawn from community organisations who might ‘ directly or indirectly improve the standing or further the aims of a paramilitary organisation ’ .
75 Editor , — Albert Figueras and colleagues suggest that gangliosides can be withdrawn from the market because their efficacy is not clearly delineated .
76 Dexter 's strictures , about the need to make progress soon , because otherwise they would be withdrawn from the case , fizzed in her mind .
77 Dr John Maunder , director of the Medical Entomology Centre ( MEC ) at the University of Cambridge , believes that Quellada shampoo is an obsolete treatment anyway , and that it should also be withdrawn from chemists .
78 When it met officials from the Department of Trade and Industry last year to urge that areas of the seabed close to the coastline and islands of Wales be withdrawn from the licensing round it was only partially successful .
79 The Government 's official scientific advisers , the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , has recommended that many of the blocks currently being offered to oil companies should be withdrawn from the licensing round .
80 He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) .
81 Kleymenov , deputy head of General Headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces in Ulan Bator , ended with an agreement in early March that all remaining Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Mongolian soil ; the operation would begin in 1991 and be completed by 1992 .
82 On March 26 Zorig , the MDU leader , called for all Soviet advisors to be withdrawn from the Ministry of Defence and Public Security and from the Planning Commission .
83 While leaders of all the main political parties expressed their condemnation of the March 31 violence , David Waddington , the Home Secretary , asserted on April 1 that certain Labour MPs who advocated non-payment must bear some of the blame for the events of the previous day , and Patten called for the Labour whip to be withdrawn from them .
84 Government subsidies would be withdrawn from loss-making parastatals , which would have to become self-financing .
85 It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that the Iowa , together with its sister ship the New Jersey , was to be withdrawn from service after repairs had been completed [ see also p. 37178 ] .
86 [ For announcement on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that all nuclear power stations would be withdrawn from the privatization programme see p. 37159 . ]
87 ( 2 ) Soviet forces were to be withdrawn from the former East German territory by the end of 1994 and governed by a separate bilateral treaty [ see below ] .
88 Under the accord ( i ) an immediate ceasefire was declared ; ( ii ) the state of emergency in Gao and Timbuktu provinces was lifted and army troops were to be withdrawn from the area ; ( iii ) an amnesty was granted to all Tuareg political prisoners ; ( iv ) internal autonomy was to be granted to the Adrar region ( i.e. Gao and Timbuktu ) ; and ( v ) additional state funds were to be allocated to the development of the region .
89 Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises .
90 In response to the Sept. 11 announcement by the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that 11,000 Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from Cuba , an editorial in the official Communist party newspaper Granma declared that the decision had been " unilateral " , had broken historical and legitimate bilateral accords and was the equivalent of giving a " green light " to the United States to carry out " aggressive plans against Cuba " .
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