Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 2 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 3 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 4 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 5 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 6 | When babies are given bottles in the neo natal period , their mothers ' breast milk is not stimulated and breastfeeding falls . |
| 7 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |
| 8 | Allopathy means ‘ different from the suffering ’ ; the drugs that are given work against the disease and its symptoms . |
| 9 | Typically , a project organisation might be set up in which LIFESPAN users are given positions in the hierarchy according to their work and may assume an appropriate pseudonym . |
| 10 | To ensure that hospital consultants — whose decisions effectively commit sums of money — are involved in the management of hospitals ; are given responsibility for the use of resources ; and are encouraged to use those resources more effectively . |
| 11 | In this way , provided they are given guidance on the type and volume of work expected , schools could be brought back into the mainstream of assessing their own pupils ' work instead of being totally dependent on the success or failure of the guessing games they play with the examiner . |
| 12 | For example , some of our greatest melodies are given settings of the greatest simplicity , and to add ‘ counterpoints ’ would rob the music of some of its beauty . |
| 13 | The low through each event and day is here clearly expressed as the texts are given settings for the people as well as choirs . |
| 14 | Trait theories stress the personality of the leader above all other factors — leadership requires a range of inherited characteristics or personality traits which are given priority over the job nature and demands of the job itself . |
| 15 | If they are , these words are given priority over the other alternatives available for each word position . |
| 16 | In fact the wording of the Act makes it clear that it is only as mothers that women are given priority in the public sector . |
| 17 | Gangs of children some as young as eight have been targeting pensioners in the town centre and have stolen money and property worth hundreds of pounds . |
| 18 | Is there any point in continuing the development of new implants if we are using revision as the criteria of failure ? |
| 19 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 20 | We are subsidising users of The Canadian 300 per cent and there is no justification for it . ’ |
| 21 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 22 | Thus when you are the only person to get up when a lady comes into the room , or when everyone has half finished their food and you are still waiting for Grace , by standing up , for failing to lift fork and knife , you are drawing attention to the sins of omission of the others and silently rebuking them . |
| 23 | A group of schoolchildren are drawing attention to the threat to tropical rainforests by composing their own ecological symphony . |
| 24 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 25 | — MEMBERS of Winterton Hospital Social Club are helping colleagues at the South Cleveland Hospital to raise money for the hospital 's Renal Unit by organising a charity night at the club . |
| 26 | ‘ We chose an English name because we are targeting buyers from the UK , ’ says Diane Morrison , George Wimpey of Florida 's marketing sales director . |
| 27 | Analysts are forecasting £40m for the full year . |
| 28 | They are maintaining contact with the world . |
| 29 | Anne , of similar age to Rhoda , had been hanging clothes in the garden , when she noticed the black , heavy smoke rising from the Carter 's smithy . |
| 30 | Touche Ross , who have been handling negotiations for the sale of the American style Marvels park , say there are several potential buyers . |