Example sentences of "[n mass] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large brood is spawned , and it is recommended some of the developing fry be removed from the parents within the first two weeks of them becoming free-swimming , so as to achieve a high survival rate . |
| 2 | Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default . |
| 3 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 4 | It was always an objective of the sadly-moribund Vulcan Association that the future of the aircraft be safeguarded once retired . |
| 5 | In a report to Darlington Council 's works and health committee Michael Bennett , director of community services , recommends £1 be charged for a copy of an individual entry and the full register be made available for £250 . |
| 6 | How , for example , will the desire for free access to data be squared with the increasing institutional imperatives to make money from information resources ? |
| 7 | How could all the data be integrated into a single publication ? |
| 8 | how should raw costing data be collected ? |
| 9 | This happened most recently when all the constituent FECMA associations agreed that the Institute 's views on an EC proposal for a Directive on the Processing of Personal Data be submitted to the European Commission as the official FECMA view . |
| 10 | How should outcome data be used ? |
| 11 | In 1984 , the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) formally approved and published a recommendation , initiated by the Commission on Thermodynamics , that the conventional standard-state pressure for thermodynamic data be changed from the traditional I atm ( 101.325 kPa ) to 100 kPa ( 1 bar ) . |
| 12 | James Montague , Bishop of Winchester , had decreed the same shortly before his death in 1618 , stating that not more than £400 be spent on his funeral — an incredibly large amount even by early seventeenth-century standards . |
| 13 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 14 | Relevance of information.cannot be decided without careful thought . |
| 15 | On 1st August 1705 the system was changed , so that the interest on these sums should be received by the overseers of the poor and a fixed amount of £7 10 0d be paid annually to the Master . |
| 16 | On 28 January 1992 the justices made orders that two boys should live with their father until the age of 16 and that the father 's costs of £7,171.50 be paid by Hillingdon London Borough Council . |
| 17 | Consider the concept , common in high-level languages , of the boolean variable , that is , a variable which can take only two values ( true and false ) and upon which the usual boolean functions — and , or , etc.ban be Performed . |
| 18 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 19 | Can " well " people be asked and helped to befriend a dementia sufferer and so encourage better integration ? |
| 20 | Could people be made to change their durable possessions as if by the whims of fashion ? |
| 21 | Will people be prosecuted when their co-operation is needed to implement an eventual peace agreement ? |
| 22 | Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ? |
| 23 | How would numbers of black , culturally different , people be integrated into British society ? |
| 24 | Some medical practitioners undertake research : should such people be categorised as doctors or scientists ? |
| 25 | In a debate in the Convention on 29 January it was a Whig , Thomas Wharton ( the son of the Puritan peer ) , who moved that the throne be filled by making William and Mary joint sovereigns , without demanding that the rights of the people be secured first , and he was seconded by a Tory , Sir Duncombe Colchester . |
| 26 | Should these people be seen as ‘ victims ’ who need protection ? |
| 27 | How far could a minister of the people be educated beyond their level ? |
| 28 | But will such people be caught dead keying into ‘ the McDonald 's of videotex ’ ? |
| 29 | How could the ‘ right ’ people be identified ? |
| 30 | To what extent should people be allowed to choose their own reproductive strategies ? |