Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven players have been dismissed in the latest intercontinental group stages and last night the organising committee of four officials each from Italy and England , chaired by Bristol City 's Leslie Kew , held a crisis meeting in Pisa . |
| 2 | It is a counterfeit of the spirit that goes on daily , you see , made worse because it has been joined by the visual counterfeit possible in television . |
| 3 | Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful . |
| 4 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 5 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 6 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 7 | In the summary table the success rates are given to the nearest five per cent . |
| 8 | Separate codes are given for the various mixed degrees which are on offer . |
| 9 | When they reach the place of sacrifice , the details of the final preparations are given in the same matter-of-fact way that the initial ones were . |
| 10 | The displacement values are given by the two corresponding coordinate variations generated by the rotation of the circular cam on PARTA . |
| 11 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 12 | Very few patients are treated in the prone lying position ( on the stomach ) . |
| 13 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , little has been heard from the fragmented pro-hunting campaign . |
| 15 | Such collections are listed in the main historical bibliographies and there is no point in trying to list them here . |
| 16 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 17 | Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer that were agreed in London in 1990 have finally been ratified by the required 20 countries and will come into force in August . |
| 18 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 19 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 20 | With the release of ‘ The Rehearsal ’ his ultra-modest hopes have been realised in the finest possible style , because with the obvious exception of Jimmy MacCarthy 's debut there has n't been a solo endeavour to touch this one , here in recent times . |
| 21 | Peaty gleys and peat are developed on the shallow stony tills widespread on hills near Clettraval ( 133 metres ) and Marrival ( 303 metres ) in North Uist , in the central area of Benbecula and , sporadically , north of the Harris mountains . |
| 22 | The unchanging inevitabilities , bereavement and personal death , are recognized in the final two chapters . |
| 23 | Modern streets and houses , often on council-built estates , have been placed beyond the older terraced housing ( K3 ) . |
| 24 | The bolts have been placed on the broken right wall of the crag to furnish a zigzagging handrail across about 100 feet of rock . |
| 25 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 26 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
| 27 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake that when she next talks to the leaders of Kenya she will communicate the grave anxiety felt in the House about human rights in Kenya and the way in which some opposition politicians are being treated and have been treated in the past few years ? |
| 29 | There are currently 18 members , who are joined by the four senior staff of Lending Services . |
| 30 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |