Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programmes undertaken are of two main types , the one country-specific , the other regional in emphasis . |
| 2 | Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
| 7 | The oleic acid concentrations used are in the range encountered in patients with steatorrhea . |
| 8 | The once prestigious PSI returned 5 members only ; indeed , none of the other 23 parties represented were in double figures : most had one or two members . |
| 9 | The other parties represented were from the France unie grouping , from either the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement , Emile Zuccarelli pres. ) or the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF — Union for French Democracy , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ch . ) . |
| 10 | In situations of this sort the exchange may need special rules , or even powers , which allow it to act for reasons of market integrity alone , and in order to preserve investor confidence , regardless of whether the parties involved are at fault . |
| 11 | Mergers have a Community Dimension where : ( 1 ) The combined aggregate worldwide turnover of all the parties involved is at least 5,000,000,000 ( 5 billion ) ECU . |
| 12 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 13 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters admitted being behind the attack on the Sinn Fein advice centre in Lepper Street in the republican New Lodge area of north Belfast , saying the aim had been to murder three members of the party . |
| 14 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 15 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since the Government took office all the redundancies in the British coal industry have been voluntary and that the terms offered to miners affected are among the most generous in British industry and can reach £37,000 per man affected . |
| 16 | The models illustrated are from the Colt Roto range , available through branches of The Loft Shop . |
| 17 | Although an attempt was made to be representative in the choice of these films it is clear that if the effects observed are of any practical significance it should be possible to observe them on a more varied stimulus set . |
| 18 | He had previously appointed me as an examining chaplain , as most of the duties involved were in connection with the ordination of European clergy . |
| 19 | The transactions covered are in broad terms financial agreements . |
| 20 | This observation is necessary not because the lines quoted are of great importance to her poetry , but to give a balanced view of her own conflicts as a domestic servant . |
| 21 | However , all the speed thresholds mentioned are for guidance only . |
| 22 | This covers sales to the fields of business , industry , and education and training organisations , and many of the programmes sold are in the science documentary area . |
| 23 | The other side chains shown are in contact with the phosphate backbone . |
| 24 | Most of the brothers were all too well aware of him , but in his absence relaxed , gave thanks and forgot him ; and the novices and schoolboys evaded being in his proximity at all , so far as was possible . |
| 25 | Substantial arrivals and passage starts in July , and numbers are high throughout the period July to October , all but two of the counts illustrated being of over 1,000 birds , and the mean of all counts in this period being 2,280 . |
| 26 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 27 | The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that . |
| 28 | Loco workings have now slumped to nearly zero and the only locos seen are on civil engineers ' trains . |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't insured and the things stolen were worth £150,000 . |
| 30 | ‘ The rings stolen were of great sentimental value to the female owner , included in the haul were wedding and engagement rings . ’ |