Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of lack of time has been eased to some degree by the setting up of communal kitchens like those in Lima , Peru . |
| 2 | The struggle for Cyprus had been eased by British acceptance of the Sovereign Base concept , though the Zurich Agreement between Greece and Turkey , which enabled Britain to grant Cyprus its independence , was not signed until February 1959 . |
| 3 | For example , in the provisions for extension of time , an extension may be given if the works are delayed for any reason beyond the control of the contractor ( a clause of much wider scope , incidentally , than in other JCT contracts ) , and the contractor is not required to provide information to assist the supervising officer in making an extension . |
| 4 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 5 | Even the work of scribes writing centuries after the Conquest has been dismissed in this way , seemingly mainly because it is variable , and not because we can ( usually ) know whether the scribe was a first-language speaker of Anglo-Norman , or whether it would have been relevant if he had been . |
| 6 | Wirral Tory claims that the situation is a result of Labour councillors backing a ‘ ca n't pay , wont pay ’ campaign have been dismissed by Labour leader Coun Dave Jackson . |
| 7 | Gavin , since been dismissed by local government union Nalgo , was a full-time union official representing thousands of council employees . |
| 8 | The majority of all black pupils are enrolled at primary level : 78 per cent of all enrolments in the DET 's jurisdiction ( compared with 56 per cent of all white enrolments ) . |
| 9 | In Britain , 15 per cent of the 18–24-year-old population are enrolled on higher education courses . |
| 10 | Tears come from the deepest emotions , from joy and beauty and often they are tinged with nostalgic sadness . |
| 11 | Although Summers presents government and law enforcement in America as having been riddled with clandestine behaviour , from the amount of material he gathered he would seen to have demonstrated the effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act . |
| 12 | They have abandoned leaves to reduce loss of water by transpiration , and their stems are swollen with stored water . |
| 13 | Some vertical agreements , such as exclusive distribution and exclusive purchasing , have been examined under this framework . |
| 14 | She sat back , visualising the scene as the mud in the sample had been examined by remote control , and the virus isolated . |
| 15 | The entire Barnes collection has been examined by National Gallery conservators , and the National Gallery has agreed to arrange for the tour 's transportation and insurance . |
| 16 | The enemy 's base , a disused farmhouse , has been examined in great detail by an earlier reconnaissance patrol and everyone knows , in theory at least , how to reach it and What to do on arrival . |
| 17 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 18 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 19 | Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 . |
| 20 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 21 | It is frustrating that so little pottery from settlements has been examined in this manner , although Brisbane ( 1981 ) has proposed a model for various modes of production that may be appropriate for such pottery . |
| 22 | The formation of a strategy for confronting the current crisis of accumulation in the world capitalist system will depend on the factors that have been examined in this chapter : the balance of social forces , class strategies and forms of political representation ; the broad historical character of the state ; and its internal composition , organizational interests , and dynamic . |
| 23 | On the one hand as was mentioned at the outset of this chapter and in Chapter 2 , the physical relationships which determine rates of soil erosion have been examined within natural science disciplines of hydrology , agricultural engineering and agricultural botany . |
| 24 | Each autumn the hazelnuts ripen on the bushes nearby , are gathered in dry weather and shaken to expel earwigs lurking in their casing . |
| 25 | You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought . |
| 26 | As a comic opera , it is very much sui generis : all the recitatives are furnished with orchestral accompaniment , and the music is both continuous and strongly unified . |
| 27 | There is a very pretty sitting-room and the bedrooms are furnished in traditional style in three delicate pastel shades — one for each floor . |
| 28 | The bedrooms are furnished in older style and have a private bathroom , though they do vary in size . |
| 29 | The attempt had been strengthened by the respect and admiration for Russian arms that had been aroused by Russian resistance on the eastern front . |
| 30 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |