Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where pods are used the terminal can be left in place , except when the pod needs replacing . |
| 2 | If less reliable prostheses or techniques were used the cost at 10 years would be over three times as much . |
| 3 | To ensure that your staff or pensioners are paid the right amount on the day you specify , all you have to do each week or month is complete a special , easy to follow form with such variable payment details as bonuses and overtime , and send it to our computer centre . |
| 4 | Where women are illustrated the results are often less than desirable for they frequently seem to be included for their decorative or ‘ selling ’ power . |
| 5 | At the heart of Lord Mackay 's proposals years later was a suggestion that solicitors be given the right to speak , and to become judges , in any court . |
| 6 | But in all the other categories — economic , accommodation , practical and emotional support — the evidence which I reviewed above suggests that parents are regarded the most appropriate relatives to offer support , subject to their capacity to do so . |
| 7 | The Law Society strongly opposes the Commission 's recommendation that defendants be denied the right to choose trial by jury . |
| 8 | This means that dealers are denied the possibility of subtracting taxes paid earlier by the producer or manufacturer . |
| 9 | Accordingly , it is reasonable that pupils be given the opportunity to attain such certification where it is deemed appropriate . |
| 10 | I believe that that is what parents want and that it is the best way to ensure that children are taught the essentials . |
| 11 | This does not contradict the general guideline that children be given the opportunity to make choices or to discuss reasons . |
| 12 | He maintains that women are granted the power to illuminate , and that they can use this wisely , even though men may be reluctant to face up to what is revealed : |
| 13 | The important thing to emphasize is that women are given the opportunity to participate in all areas of work and that there exists a definite attempt to organize and train women for tasks outside the domestic sphere , One finds many women who are in charge of supplies , or working in the munition workshops , in tailoring , shoe-making , pottery or local manufactures , such as hammocks and so on . |
| 14 | If debtors and creditors are excluded the natural inclination of the vendor will be to pursue the debtors and delay paying the creditors for as long as possible . |
| 15 | The same result will follow if solicitors are given the right of audience in the Crown Court , as is by no means impossible . |
| 16 | A £150,000 hi-tech car wash could open next to Scarborough 's ambulance station later this year if plans are given the green light . |
| 17 | For this is Family Day when dads and husbands are given the chance to show what they do . |
| 18 | You do in fact remember as c Councillor has said , that when Labour took over and schools were given the chance to change their minds and withdraw at least to change y to change the decision and withdraw from immediate L M S , then half of the schools chose to delay it 's introduction . |
| 19 | Perhaps too many all-embracing laws are drafted in such a slipshod manner that police may think it gives them authority to frame any charge and judges are given the power to determine the law according to their own opinions . |
| 20 | Magistrates and judges were given the power to release upon probation for good conduct first offenders who had committed an offence not punishable by more than three years imprisonment . |
| 21 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 22 | Once the order of probes and contigs is established the clones are fitted to the probe order , using the algorithm described in Section 4.3 . |
| 23 | And viewers were given the ridiculous impression that two blokes from Sussex University , rather than Eugene Garfield , had invented citation analysis as a means of assessing quality in research . |
| 24 | It is perhaps obvious to state that it is essential for all stories shared to be authentic i.e. not to make up stories — for if stories are fabricated the work of passing on the flame of faith will not happen . |
| 25 | If symbols are used the reader should be able to study a code list , which should appear immediately after the contents page . |
| 26 | specify how many lines there should be on each page ; the minimum is 2 if no headings or footings are required , and if headings and footings are required the minimum is 8 . |
| 27 | The Minister said in Committee that he believed that if abuses were proven the Secretary of State would be able to act . |
| 28 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 29 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 30 | Only the young , intending teachers , and medicals were allowed the full normal course for their subject . |