Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TK50 and 1600bpi tape must of course be mounted /FOREIGN ; both these and the RL02 disk have the label ‘ ISSUE ’ . |
| 2 | But if an entrepreneur perceives the possibility of gaining profit by offering to buy at a price attractive to sellers and by offering to sell at a price attractive to buyers , the opportunities he thus offers to the market can in principle be made available by anyone . |
| 3 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 4 | A child may come before a hearing on an offence referral and be made subject to a supervision requirement for a number of reasons , of which the offence may be only one ; the child may on review be kept subject to a supervision requirement , even though he may have committed no further offences , because of , say , inadequate parental care . |
| 5 | Even variant pronunciations of the same word may on occasion be assigned contrasting meanings . |
| 6 | However in the case of couples should one partner neglect to pay the Community Charge the other partner may , by law be held responsible for payment of any unpaid sum due . |