Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default . |
| 2 | In his speech on May 25 Arafat put forward a five-point plan proposing that : ( i ) an emergency UN military force be sent to the occupied territories to protect Palestinian civilians ; ( ii ) a special UN envoy be appointed to deal with the Palestinian issue ; ( iii ) a UN resolution be passed calling for end to Jewish settlement in the territories ; ( iv ) UN members adopt sanctions against Israel ; and ( v ) the five permanent members of the Security Council convene to prepare for an international conference on the Middle East . |
| 3 | How would investment be helped by the Labour party 's policies of higher costs , higher taxes , more red tape and a minimum wage ? |
| 4 | But how far would the reform programme be extended beyond the economic sphere ? |
| 5 | In May The Times Higher Education Supplement , in an article entitled ’ Merging the High and Low Roads ’ , suggested that further education funding in Scotland could in future be incorporated in the proposed Scottish higher education funding council . |
| 6 | In addition , all charges against self-confessed drug traffickers would in future be heard by the same judge . |
| 7 | Women would increasingly in the future be recruited into the new semi-skilled jobs , often at piece rates , so that employers were able to benefit both from the job 's lack of a craft tradition behind it , and from a work-force trained from childhood to regard anything they did as unskilled . |
| 8 | In executing this blocking movement , it is essential that all the weight be concentrated on the rear leg , allowing the defender to spring forward in a tiger stance , with his whole body weight behind him , if the warding and grabbing movement fails or is countered . |
| 9 | That the potential of music for fostering ecumenical relationships be utilised to the full by the Church at all levels ( 503–504 ) . |
| 10 | The literary production of the revolutionary novelist must in other words be underwritten by the historical awareness of the political revolutionary : |
| 11 | If we do not [ automate ] , wo n't our industry be disadvantaged by the automated industries abroad ? |
| 12 | Will the principal roles be taken by the same group of children who starred in previous years ? |
| 13 | In the fortunate event of no major occurrence in any particular year , would the premiums be waived for the following year , or if there was profit distribution who would benefit ? |
| 14 | How , for example , will the desire for free access to data be squared with the increasing institutional imperatives to make money from information resources ? |
| 15 | This happened most recently when all the constituent FECMA associations agreed that the Institute 's views on an EC proposal for a Directive on the Processing of Personal Data be submitted to the European Commission as the official FECMA view . |
| 16 | In 1984 , the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) formally approved and published a recommendation , initiated by the Commission on Thermodynamics , that the conventional standard-state pressure for thermodynamic data be changed from the traditional I atm ( 101.325 kPa ) to 100 kPa ( 1 bar ) . |
| 17 | 7–10- The Session had under consideration the more frequent celebration of the Lord 's Supper in the congregation than at present , which is once a year in May and resolved the ordinance be observed on the first Sabbath of November next … |
| 18 | It requested donations be sent to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 19 | The rule that 85 per cent of the DSS transfer be spent in the independent sector is feared to protect private residential homes instead of developing services . |
| 20 | Can data on radon exposure and cancer risks in uranium miners be applied to the general population ? |
| 21 | Should nation-states be regarded as the principal actors in the global political system ? |
| 22 | As Professor Laski wrote : The signatories to the manifesto ask that the leadership of the campaign be undertaken by the Labour Party . |
| 23 | Nor can the elimination of two year waits be attributed to the internal market . |
| 24 | Can the species Homo erectus be recognized in the European fossil record ? |
| 25 | Would the common law duties be preserved with the regulatory rules providing an additional layer of investor protection , or would the new rules modify the existing duties ? |
| 26 | It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed . |
| 27 | So we 're suggestion criterion which make it quite clear that such a strategic site should not under any circumstances be located in the national parks , areas of outstanding natural beauty , heritage coast , greenbelt and other specially designated areas of countryside protection . |
| 28 | In a rapidly changing business , how can crucial decisions on manpower be taken with the necessary speed and on a basis of fact ? |
| 29 | In which respects should A Present View of Ireland be linked with The Faerie Queene ? |
| 30 | An educated democracy would never for a moment be influenced by the ill-balanced ideas of the direct actionists . |