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

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1 And to wait while another is brought up to join it ; and another ; and another ; until a monumental cluster of notes are permitted the final lunge into kinetic energy .
2 Under its unique regime , prisoners are given the chance through therapy to come to terms with their crimes , and hopefully start a new life .
3 The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) .
4 My own experience when devising a controller for use with computer control is that if low-enough frequencies are employed the motors respond like ‘ stepper-motors ’ advancing a small amount for each pulse .
5 Accepting shareholders are given the option to elect for more of one type to the extent that other accepting shareholders elect for more of the other type .
6 In return for the offeror agreeing to procure that the accepting shareholders are paid the requisite amount of cash , the accepting shareholders exercise their right to nominate the merchant bank , or as it may direct ( ie sub-underwriters ) , as the person to whom the shares are to be allotted ; and
7 The bidder 's shareholders are offered the new shares pro rata to their existing shareholdings in the bidder , known as an " open offer " .
8 This latter point is particularly important since the further into the future the benefits of projects are deferred the less they are worth in today 's values .
9 The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal .
10 Critics like the duchess believe the Government 's allocation of up to £22 million for care agencies will be heavily trimmed back as local authorities are given the final say on how the money is spent .
11 The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts .
12 These platforms stretching round the continents are called the continental shelf .
13 The same result will follow if solicitors are given the right of audience in the Crown Court , as is by no means impossible .
14 Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists .
15 A £150,000 hi-tech car wash could open next to Scarborough 's ambulance station later this year if plans are given the green light .
16 Once these sketches are completed the working space and technical file areas are saved .
17 ( 8 ) In the event that a Member holds any Shares or a beneficial owner has an interest in any Shares in the Company in such circumstances that the Rules are broken the Directors may at any time resolve that the Member holding the Shares concerned shall ( unless he shall have already given a Transfer Notice ) be deemed to have given a Transfer Notice in respect of such Shares .
18 ( 8 ) In the event that a Member holds any Shares or a beneficial owner has an interest in any Shares in the Company in such circumstances that the Rules are broken the Directors may at any time resolve that the Member holding the Shares concerned shall ( unless he shall have already given a Transfer Notice ) be deemed to have given a Transfer Notice in respect of such Shares .
19 … as soon as the rules are transgressed the whole play-world collapses .
20 We are confident that when the new contracts are negotiated the industry will respond to keep the lion 's share of that market throughout the 1990s and beyond .
21 If debtors and creditors are excluded the natural inclination of the vendor will be to pursue the debtors and delay paying the creditors for as long as possible .
22 These two steps are called the components of X along x and y .
23 These steps are called the reaction mechanism ( see chapter 9 ) .
24 While the authors have a view , readers are given the options and the relevant costs and benefits .
25 Khotan is drunk , when he is n't doped with hashish and , now that Nogai and his brothers are forbidden the Golden Pavilion , your father-in-law is courting everyone . ’
26 These trades are recorded the following day .
27 When only school-leavers are considered the percentage naturally falls : of the filled vacancies , 24% of boys and 30.4% of girls , numbering together 42,000 , were in this category .
28 For this is Family Day when dads and husbands are given the chance to show what they do .
29 When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 .
30 Because the original speaker 's words are stored the personal characteristics remain , even the accent is readily detectable in some cases .
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