Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ideally , opioid dependent prisoners in custody should be stabilised with the right dose .
2 This might well be stabilised as the main course and result in the construction of a new delta segment , until the gradient advantage of the distributaries over it was nullified by the extent of the segment .
3 The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting .
4 The value of praise in providing encouragement has to be blended with the instructional benefit that criticism can bring to the pupil .
5 For more on how these roles can be blended into a successful group , see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 .
6 He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space .
7 THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms .
8 Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close .
9 In the hollow below , Bigwig seemed to be drawing to a close .
10 The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato ’ — may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication .
11 The clear danger was , however , that certain factions within the party leadership would not be so tolerant as Su Xiao Kang hoped and that the freer intellectual atmosphere of 1988 might be drawing to an end .
12 There were some signs in 1990-91 that Japan 's long-running dispute with the Soviet Union might be drawing to an end .
13 To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century .
14 The lack of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a prisoner 's contacts with the outside world .
15 Once filed an application can only be withdrawn with the leave of the court ( FPCR , r5(1) ; FPR , r4.5(1) ) .
16 Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being .
17 If your invalid parent is admitted , however , and payments of the attendance allowance is withdrawn , your invalid care allowance will have to be withdrawn at the same time , and you should immediately notify the Invalid Care Allowance Unit , Department of Health and Social Security , North Fylde Central Offices , Norcross , Blackpool FY5 3TA .
18 A bankruptcy petition , put before the court and registered on the court file , can not be withdrawn without the court 's permission , so presentation of this kind of application should not be undertaken lightly .
19 A petition can not be withdrawn without the leave of the court ( s 266(2) ) and leave will not be given before the petition is heard ( r 6.32(3) ) .
20 On 3 May he protested that Alexander 's troops were entering areas already liberated by his forces , and requested that these should be withdrawn behind the line of the river Isonzo .
21 A contestant may withdraw , or be withdrawn from a competition through injury .
22 He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) .
23 Cash can be withdrawn from the usual Midland Bank , NatWest , and TSB machines .
24 After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 .
25 We are demanding that British , US , and other foreign troops be withdrawn from the Gulf immediately and that a peaceful solution be sought to the crisis .
26 I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice .
27 Patients deteriorating to the point when renal dialysis is considered should be withdrawn from the transplant list .
28 Mothers of young children were to be withdrawn from the labour market to be supported by allowances from the state and by their more fully employed husbands .
29 Editor , — Albert Figueras and colleagues suggest that gangliosides can be withdrawn from the market because their efficacy is not clearly delineated .
30 Dexter 's strictures , about the need to make progress soon , because otherwise they would be withdrawn from the case , fizzed in her mind .
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