Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hospital spokeswoman said : ‘ They were released after being treated and cleaned-up . |
| 2 | In Germany , municipal waste can be landfilled only after being sorted and processed ; in France , tough new landfill standards have recently been introduced ; in Britain , higher standards for new landfills ( although not for existing ones ) are being introduced under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 3 | On Dec. 29 , 1989 , the government announced that the new leader of the JVP 's military wing , the Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya ( DJV ) , Saman Piyasiri Fernando , had been killed in an exchange of gunfire after being arrested and leading police officers to a house used as a JVP headquarters in Colombo . |
| 4 | It rouses far-off memories of infancy , of being handled and given comfort . |
| 5 | If ClarisWorks is in the process of being born and Complete Works shows signs of coming out of a difficult adolescence , then PFS:WindowWorks is the old timer of the three . |
| 6 | This was followed by a growing uneasiness as Helen 's time drew near and a sensation , despite my physical condition , of being drained and miserable . |
| 7 | This is the view that the creation of a second , lower-status sector of higher education , capable of absorbing large numbers of less able , full-time and part-time students , would protect the universities and their traditional roles and processes from being swamped and distorted . |
| 8 | He arranged for C 1 and C 3 to be fixed and equal , say , and R 1 and R 3 to be variable but equal , say , by employing ganged variable resistors to provide these resistances . |
| 9 | He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final . |
| 10 | The merits of a planning application lodged in August 1988 can hardly be expected to be judged on the basis of a yet to be prepared and approved Structure Plan Review and District-wide Local Plan , both of which will address a future Development Plan time period . |
| 11 | The very stones seem to be twisted and distorted , and the whole building leans inwards into the Castle . |
| 12 | Staff shortages , combined with the patients ' helplessness and their invisibility from the general public ( few visitors come to these wards ) , make it easy for private toileting or modesty to be ignored and emotional lives denied . |
| 13 | The Southern Africa mailing list will continue to be serviced and new names can be added to it , but there will be no active promotion of it . |
| 14 | Quality standards require undertakings to be monitored and visible . |
| 15 | This of course had to be monitored and accountable a as it is at present in the Southern region where we can already see the benefits . |
| 16 | The agreement was based on the famous — some would say infamous-five principles : unimpeded progress to majority rule ( already enshrined in the 1961 Constitution ) had to be maintained and guaranteed ; there would have to be guarantees against retrogressive amendment of the Constitution ; there would need to be immediate improvement in the political status of the black population ; there would have to be progress towards ending racial discrimination ; and the British government would need to be satisfied that any basis proposed for independence was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |
| 17 | The remote observer measures time intervals to be dilated and light to be red shifted . |
| 18 | our clerks , while they are on our business , ought not to be compelled to take necessary orders [ holy orders , that is ] or to make personal residence in their benefices , or in any other way to be molested and disturbed . |
| 19 | This means that airspace had to be rationed and licensed , and pirate TV is not a very viable possibility . |
| 20 | They like their lives to be organized and tidy ; they hate paradox and mystery . |
| 21 | Before the patient is moved , everything has to be arranged and ready . |
| 22 | However , the potential danger had to be recognised and continued cooperation with the United States would persuade Washington to be more magnanimous and simultaneously protect Japan . |
| 23 | The authors acknowledged that ‘ … new needs will come to be recognised and new legal remedies will come to be developed , ’ but asserted that ‘ … at any time there will be some problems which are clearly perceived by lawyers or lay [ people ] as more ‘ legal ’ than others . ’ |
| 24 | In high summer , provisions were plentiful , but would have to be gathered and loaded . |
| 25 | This has the obvious advantage of reducing the sheer volume of data to be gathered and processed but the disadvantage of being inflexible and possibly missing significant happenings because the category system did n't allow for them . |
| 26 | Large and unnecessary extra costs are imposed if all waste is treated as hazardous ; yet risks to the public result from allowing hazardous materials to be moved and disposed of cheaply as if it were ‘ merely ’ waste . |
| 27 | The functioning of the polytechnics , as their schemes began to be accepted and formal designations made , was to become of increasing interest to the CNAA , and the issues surrounding relationships were to become increasingly prominent , with regard to such matters as the roles of Academic Boards , resource allocation and internal evaluation . |
| 28 | As a first step pensions and child benefit were to be raised and long-term supplementary benefit extended to the long-term unemployed . |
| 29 | The ability to move around in the competition area is essential if you are always going to be poised and ready either to attack or to respond . |
| 30 | First the pilchards had to be gutted and salted , and the red hands and sharp knives of the womenfolk were busy for an hour or more . |