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

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1 Nearly half of those registered are in the jobs market for the first time .
2 The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide .
3 Because the calories consumed are in the form of particularly bulky , filling and satisfying food your appetite will not be sharpened nor your willpower lowered by actual physical hunger .
4 The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis .
5 ( i ) shares of an existing class already listed are to be issued which would increase the issued shares of that class by 10 per cent or more , or ( ii ) securities of a new class are to be offered as consideration which are to be listed , or ( iii ) debt securities of any amount are to be offered as consideration which are to be listed .
6 Three of the people listed are in Exeter .
7 Its pleasingness rests purely within the intrinsic aesthetic since the similarities intended are of a purely visual nature .
8 The amounts given are for a tank :
9 It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials .
10 The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that .
11 Included are around one hundred objects from the Russian State Museum , St Petersburg , including icons , objects in precious metals , textiles , painted wooden sculpture and ecclesiastical jewellery .
12 Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA .
13 But size and numbers of fish caught are of little importance at Scourie .
14 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 .
15 And the majority of those have objected are in the area of that two miles .
16 CPRW has no doubt that in this particular instance a decision to provide planning consent would be quite disastrous , whereas a rejection would strengthen the value of National Park designation at a time when development pressures of the kind being considered are on the increase .
17 But obviously — if he bought someone wed be in a negative cash flow — so wed still need to sell again afterwards .
18 The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church .
19 Suppose a chemical firm discharges a pollutant into a river , the quantity of pollutant discharged being in proportion to the level of chemical production .
20 To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles .
21 I 'm already past the statutory retirement age and besides , I 've enjoyed being with the people in Harwich so I 'd like to stick with them if I can . ’
22 I 've enjoyed being with you .
23 ( ‘ I really enjoyed being with you .
24 Heron can not have enjoyed being on his list but the prospect of negotiating with Mr Klesch can only encourage the company to settle quickly and generously .
25 He 'd have enjoyed being on this trip with us today , you know . ’
26 approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated .
27 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 .
28 Those included were in Dakar , Niamey , Yaoundé , Bamako , Fort-Lamy , Conakry , Abidjan , Lomé , Cotonou , Douala , St. Louis and Brazzaville .
29 In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom .
30 The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word .
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