Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For more on how these roles can be blended into a successful group , see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 . |
| 3 | 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of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a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 . |
| 4 | A contestant may withdraw , or be withdrawn from a competition through injury . |
| 5 | 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announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US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 ) . |
| 6 | My noble and learned Friend and my right hon. Friend made it clear that the green form scheme would not be withdrawn until a full , free , prompt , and convenient form of professional advice was available to every asylum seeker . |
| 7 | Moreover , there is a danger than data that presented very little pattern originally can be smoothed into an artefactually interesting story ; exercise 9.4 has been designed to enable you to explore this point . |
| 8 | The edges of mirrors can be smoothed with a carborundum stone but using water rather than oil as the lubricant . |
| 9 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 10 | Gender relations will be highlighted as an area in which external images of the Laz may conceal a much more complex reality . |
| 11 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 12 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 13 | The limestone scars seen on the left during the ascent here give place to a moorland shelf inclined at an easier gradient which , on investigation , is found to be perforated by a line of potholes . |
| 14 | I recognise that it may also be tinged with a note of bias , for I passionately believe with the project organisers that school and community are parallel and co-operative agencies in the education of young children , and that to establish understanding , as well as to promote real creativity , children should begin reading and learning in the language they speak at home . |
| 15 | Fernando , 52 , who had led the sea war against Tamil flotillas running arms supplies from India , was the highest-ranking officer to be assassinated during a series of recent assaults against senior military personnel . |
| 16 | In that year the secretary of the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts received a letter from Spencer Perceval the Prime Minster ( who was later to be assassinated by a bankrupt , John Bellingham ) to say that His Majesty had graciously given orders to present The Thatched House Society with £2,000 from his private purse . |
| 17 | Mandela was to be assassinated by a sniper on his return from abroad in mid-July . |
| 18 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 19 | It was not a right to be enjoyed as a source of revenue or worldly glory : it was to be guarded as a gift from the past , representing an eternal principle of order . |
| 20 | A ship would have to be guarded by a warship , the Americans , who supplied the original plutonium , insisted . |
| 21 | ‘ T is too narrow a road to be guarded by a castle . ’ |
| 22 | In addition , involvement of major neurovascular structures and bone can also be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy . |
| 23 | But although it is such a widespread condition , endometriosis is often overlooked because it can only be diagnosed by a minor surgical procedure called laparoscopy ( the insertion of an illuminated instrument through a small incision in the abdomen ) and many suffers do have problems getting their GPs to refer them to a specialist who can do the these for them . |
| 24 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 25 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 26 | And it can quickly produce a list of signs that need to be altered for a relief route or during a major road repair . |
| 27 | Here , the therapist is looking for maladaptive coping strategies which can be altered at a later date in homework assignments . |
| 28 | Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements . |
| 29 | With a text on a word-processor no one version is final , any version can be altered without a trace . |
| 30 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |