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

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1 Ideally the pressure groups formed are not to be organized functionally around ‘ clienthood ’ or ‘ patienthood ’ but around identification of interests which consumers in general feel to be appropriate .
2 Some of the herbs listed are found in most countries — often taken by mankind as they migrated all over the world , showing that man considered them as important .
3 The range of topics covered and the nature of the professional development activities undertaken are detailed in 2.2.2 .
4 The purpose of some of the objects crafted is difficult to understand because many of the finest had a religious significance .
5 Nowadays there is little real distinction between Proof and Proof before Answer and the greatest majority of cases heard are Proofs before Answer .
6 Except for cases of incurably ill pets , where owner and vet agree that euthanasia is best , the reasons given are as follows , in order of frequency : a ) The client wants the vet to agree that the animal is terminally ill/suffering/too old to treat .
7 The tribunal will also have considerable discretion in deciding whether or not the reasons given are adequate .
8 The reasons given are as follows .
9 The most common reasons given are that although the complaint is within scope , there is no realistic remedy , or there is no real evidence of the complaint being well-founded .
10 When a prison officer requests a gun the reasons given are closely scrutinised , ’ he said .
11 The reasons given were :
12 Other reasons given were the sale of subsidiaries , tightening controls on costs and improving the structures and systems of group companies .
13 If the reasons given were genuine and clear , it would be easy for unscrupulous shoppers ( in a later application ) to apply in terms which avoided the pitfall .
14 UnivEd Technologies Limited is the one-stop entry to the University of Edinburgh 's core industrial liaison activities .
15 First , the earliest investment projects undertaken are likely to be the most profitable , i.e. offering the highest expected yearly returns ( R ) , and therefore having the highest marginal efficiencies of investment ( i ) .
16 Some sites have tried to build an entire secure environment for the LIFESPAN Manager , such that all the operations foreseen are provided from within a set of command procedures to which the LIFESPAN Manager is tied .
17 Is not the most significant point about that list the fact that all the authorities listed are Labour controlled ?
18 Most employers also take the precaution of stating that the illustrations given are not exhaustive .
19 Many of the definitions given are very general , for example that of Scriven : ‘ evaluation attempts to answer certain types of questions about certain entities ’ .
20 Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are .
21 Accordingly , most products developed were based on large , textual databases and it was only slowly that developers began stretching the medium to deliver images and sound in addition to text .
22 While the number of programmes undertaken is not in itself an indicator of quality or effectiveness , it may be assumed that undertaking relatively little , or virtually no planned systematic training , is certain to be ineffective .
23 The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis .
24 Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA .
25 This action plan makes it evident that many of the organisational improvements recommended are in fact features synonymous with an ‘ openly run ’ school with an ‘ open ’ form of decision-making .
26 Rather , the new law requires that academic positions be filled by responses to open advertisements and that the disciplines concerned be determined by the universities and not by the ministry .
27 The basal values reported are the means of the two basal values obtained with a 15 minute interval .
28 What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve .
29 Tony Rickardsson , Chris Louis and Sam Tesar will head the Ipswich challenge along with Howe , while other riders booked are Brian Karger , Greg Hancock , Claus Jakobsen , Richard Knight , Charles Ermolenko and Josh Larsen .
30 ‘ We did n't have an unlimited budget and , after the first few weeks , the shops stopped being interesting .
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