Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , institutions are organized social groups embodying social roles , relations , processes , norms and instruments or complexes of cultural patterns , norms and procedures , which satisfy some important social interest ( e.g. educational , economic , religious , etc ) . |
| 2 | The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision . |
| 3 | Only those manufacturing steps that involve trade secrets are kept in-house . |
| 4 | Beginners are given intensive language teaching , leading rapidly to the reading of original texts , and are able , on successful completion of the course , to join former 1B students in the second-year class . |
| 5 | Course modules in Crop Production Systems and Crop Protection are considered essential . |
| 6 | It would , nonetheless , have saved us millions of pounds in tax relief had the building been declared listed . ’ |
| 7 | Also of interest is computer use during consultations , where patient notes are made available and up-dated using a desk-top terminal . |
| 8 | Also , no explanation is offered as to how society defines criminal behaviour , why some acts are made illegal and others not . |
| 9 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 10 | What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ? |
| 11 | Course modules in Land Use/Environmental Interactions and Nutrient Cycles : Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions are considered essential . |
| 12 | In the kind of discriminating attention it demands , grid method becomes , and reveals , a part of that articulation process described by Lind in which the very structure and texture of aesthetic objects are made intelligible . |
| 13 | All prisoners are made aware of these rights . |
| 14 | All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full . |
| 15 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 16 | It is most important that the purposes of such an admission are made clear to the ward staff beforehand . |
| 17 | And such displacement and contamination are made possible by that radical interconnectedness between the two which the lower knows and the higher disavows . |
| 18 | CORE campaigner Martin Forewood said : ‘ Surely something is wrong when these levels of contamination are considered acceptable in Britain . |
| 19 | Individuals who possess certain skills may also find their power diminished if those skills are made redundant by developments in new technology . |
| 20 | Terms which are not expressly agreed between the parties but inserted by law into the contract are called implied terms . |
| 21 | For instance , many of the life insurance firms to which Standard & Poor 's awards a triple-A are ranked feeble by the regulators ( see chart ) . |
| 22 | By setting them to different scales harmonic progressions which would be unplayable on a single harp are made possible . |
| 23 | Those who have learnt to accept their difficulties without the glimmer of hope are set free . |
| 24 | It is important , while acknowledging that many policies are made complex and ambiguous by the conflicts within the policy-making process , to recognize that it is intrinsically difficult to specify some policy goals in terms that will render the implementation process quite clear and unambiguous . |
| 25 | But he found there was nothing academic about dealing with people and with the unions , because ‘ established institutions have their dogmas and their attitudes are frozen rigid . ’ |
| 26 | This agency should be funded as employers are given financial help to carry out their obligations under the legislation . |
| 27 | Within each country , paper notes and coins are made legal tender by the government and must therefore be accepted in payment for goods and services . |
| 28 | And twenty American servicemen are feared dead after air crashes in the Gulf . |
| 29 | FIVE BANKS , which could lose over £100m if money market transactions by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are ruled unlawful , should not be allowed to appear at the hearing into their legality , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 30 | Banks financing oil and gas pipeline projects are given similar guarantees by means of through-put agreements which set the minimum usage of the facility by the various contracting parties . |