Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , there is a general warm acceptance of the monarchy , which has been revealed time and time again by public opinion polls ( e.g. National Opinion Poll , 1986 ; Gallup , 1976 ; see surveys of polls in Harris , 1966 ; Norton , 1984 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) .
2 Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ?
3 Another slightly different angle on these issues is to consider the distinction between instrumentality and expressiveness which has been made use of by sociologists , and is usefully applied to a discussion of kin relations by Morgan ( 1975 , pp. 78–85 ) .
4 Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution .
5 Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution .
6 Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution .
7 While continuing to believe in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine at communion , Luther rejected transubstantiation for a position which has been labelled consubstantiation .
8 Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) .
9 Three Spanish trawlers which had been observed fishing in Namibian waters at the end of March were boarded by South African coastguards and returned to Windhoek .
10 The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) .
11 The levees of the former rivers through the Fens are now marked by raised banks , or roddons , which have been favoured settlement sites due to their comparative dryness .
12 Environmentalists have reported the government to the European Commission over nine road schemes which have been given approval without an environmental assessment .
13 Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects .
14 As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are :
15 Two separate functions of appeals have been identified , which have been labelled review and supervision ( Blom-Cooper and Drewry , 1972 ; Drewry , 1973 ) .
16 The cases which have been considered fall into several categories , but the most important distinction is between simple and complex cases .
17 What has been designated Industry Year has got off to a predictably silly start .
18 erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper
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