Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 2 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
| 3 | Officials within the Northern Ireland Office then arranged for money to be secured for the scheme from the Department of Environment . |
| 4 | Migration and fertility decline are alternative escapes from population pressure in societies sufficiently developed for mortality to be declining ( as in eighteenth century France ) and can to some extent substitute for each other ( Davis 1963 , Friedlander 1983 ) to relieve population pressure ( Woods and Smith 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 6 | The survivors were all being treated for hypothermia after being picked up by helicopters and coastguards . |
| 7 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 8 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 9 | All take marketing seriously and the time has come for education to be added to the list . |
| 10 | But public authorities can also be attacked for non-feasance by being required to perform their duty . |
| 11 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 12 | Large firms are able to provide lifetime employment for their employees who are expected in return to be dedicated ‘ company men ’ . |
| 13 | Others may surprise you by being woefully unprepared and you may find yourself taking the initiative more often than you might have expected in order to be able to put across as many of your good points as possible . |
| 14 | However , as the week long conference progressed , all opposition was dropped in preference to being outvoted . |
| 15 | The world has to be dismantled and re-assembled in order to be able to grasp , however clumsily , the experiences of another . |
| 16 | Some , ‘ … wiser than the rest , lay their heads together and resolved in council to be before-hand ’ and went with picks and shovels and opened the land around the monument to a depth of six feet . |
| 17 | She had nothing planned , unless it was to go to a cinema show with Jules , and even if she had , there was nothing she would not have cancelled in order to be with Harry . |
| 18 | Whilst the outer domain touching condition is the most commonly experienced when handling two or more objects , special transition cases need to be considered in order to be able to construct an adequate description of an engineering assembly , or the real relationship between two domains which can be both solids and voids . |
| 19 | This temperature can be considered in effect to be the limiting value T g would reach in a hypothetical experiment taking an infinitely long time . |
| 20 | The haulier needs to make a clear distinction , because if a driver is deemed in reality to be an employee , he is protected by the employment legislation . |
| 21 | Small wonder that the company had earlier petitioned without success to be allowed to manufacture battery — plates , vessels etc. from the refined metal , for it appears that there was a ready sale and it was a more profitable manner of disposing of the metal . |
| 22 | It was the sort of success that saw Talk Talk having insult added to injury by being nominated at the BRITS Awards for Best Band Of 1990 . |
| 23 | My father writes : ‘ Is teased at school about being vain , and no wonder . |
| 24 | No inmate , however , was to be confined at night without being provided with a bed and other conveniences . |
| 25 | Harvesting is a delicate task requiring deft fingers and precision , for which women are supposed by nature to be peculiarly suited . |
| 26 | It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise . |
| 27 | It must arrive within three months of the ‘ effective date of termination ’ of the employment , basically the date of dismissal or some later date deemed by statute to be the date the employment ended . |
| 28 | No services were to be held in the church or chapels on certain forbidden former holy days ; nor was any concourse of idle people to attend church on those days , which included All Souls ( nor the evening or night before ) and those of Saints Catherine , Nicholas , George , Lawrence , Ann , and so on , including Thomas-a-Beckett , Mary Magdalene , the Conception , the Assumption , Wednesdays during the Easter or Whitsuntide weeks all being forbidden by law to be kept as holidays . |
| 29 | This architect specified radiused gutter proved extremely difficult for the builder to obtain , until the problem was solved by Apex after being able to fabricate the specification requirement |
| 30 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |