Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the hazardous exposure is unlikely to be monitored external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 2 | ERCO were soon to be kept busy producing war materials , and it was not until August 1945 that production of the Ercoupe resumed . |
| 3 | The new body was to be called Western European Union ( WEU ) . |
| 4 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes which other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 5 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 6 | With Irish League clubs almost certain to be given preliminary round status in next year 's European competitions a new structure will be needed for Ulster domestic football for the start of next season . |
| 7 | The European Parliament will not be slow in following up the demands put to the summit by Mr Enrique Baron , the Parliament 's president , for it to be given sweeping new powers by the inter-governmental conference next year . |
| 8 | The 114 deputies who had supported the independence move were understood in August to be facing possible criminal charges , together with all those who had struck in their support . |
| 9 | In that it joins other states like Iran , Israel , Pakistan and India who are all thought to be pursuing military nuclear programmes . |
| 10 | Most of the sediment in fact seems to be accumulating close inshore and very little gets to the outer shelf or the deeps . |
| 11 | ‘ … that it would look much better if he was seen to be supporting indigenous native art as well as looking to Africa or Latin America . |
| 12 | After spending part of the summer at Baden with Constanze , Mozart decided to go on speculation to Frankfurt am Main , where Leopold II was to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 9 October . |
| 13 | By 1991 , those it approves are to be designated National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQ ) , and accorded one of four levels : Basic , Standard , Advanced and Higher . |
| 14 | Where now is the consumer 's demand for weekly one-stop shopping when bread has to be bought fresh daily ? |
| 15 | Long words are less likely to be identified given current performance , but parts of these words will be , and they will correspond to homophones in the second set of valid words . |
| 16 | Clause 22 and Sch 3 provide for an employee who would otherwise have to be suspended from work for health and safety reasons on maternity grounds , such as pregnancy , recent birth , or where the woman is breast-feeding her child , to be offered suitable alternative work ( if available ) and for an employee who is suspended to be paid during the suspension . |
| 17 | CIOB members , who make up the single biggest group of professional visitors to Interbuild , are to be offered complimentary Select Gold membership at the show . |
| 18 | A points scheme would enable a maxium of 50,000 heads of households , plus their dependants , to be awarded full British citizenship without having to leave Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Not only were the garotters thought to be visiting hot-blooded Neapolitan outrage upon English soil , but on other occasions they were said to be ‘ like the sanguinary fanatics of the French Revolution ’ as well as resembling the ‘ Indian ‘ thuggee' ’ ’ . |
| 20 | I did n't think I was going to be found guilty other than by accident . |
| 21 | In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech , Claude Simon also considered marginalized writing to be subverting totalitarian political control at least implicitly . |
| 22 | What used to be considered basic back-to-school items — schoolbags , pencil cases , stationery , lunch boxes and the like — have now become fashion accessories in the classroom . |
| 23 | Marx seems to be answering unnamed conservative critics who would argue that if you do not have private property and the politico-legal framework to ensure its enjoyment you will have chaos ; people would lose all incentive to produce , there would be no law except the law of the strongest , the economy could not be organized , there would be no individual security , murder and theft would be the order of the day . |
| 24 | It seems KnowledgeWare Inc may be an acquisition candidate for hungry Munich software house Softlab GmbH which , on behalf of its 75% owner Bayerische MotorenWerke AG , is known to be assessing various complementary software businesses as potential buys , particularly in the US . |
| 25 | Now clearly there 's a distinction to be drawn oral oral communication and written communication but they were doing this generally . |
| 26 | The company is also said to be cancelling personal computer-based projects and turning its resources elsewhere . |
| 27 | For Deutschland ( literally ‘ Germany ’ ) is the name given , half in envy , half in derision , to that region beyond the Ghetto where successful neighbors appear to be imitating German Jewish standards of living . |
| 28 | Now , the honey-gold , palm-dotted ramparts and fortifications of Grand Harbour were receding in the distance , the Mediterranean was crystal-clear turquoise beneath them , and the huge arc of the sky seemed to be widening invisible blue arms above the horizon . |
| 29 | Baku , meanwhile , remained without special security measures or curfew restrictions , and gangs of looters were said to be attacking abandoned Armenian homes largely unchallenged by the sole detachment of 1,000 Interior Ministry troops who had arrived from Moscow on Jan. 14 . |