Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A memorial service for Beryl was held on 27th July at St. Marks Church , Hamilton Terrace NW8 .
2 Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year .
3 Feminism for Beginners is divided into two parts .
4 The Head of Department is responsible for ensuring that proposals for change are considered by appropriate field and/or subject committees and the departmental board and in particular that resource implications are identified .
5 They need to make a regular picture available to the national originators of change and to those agencies who are responsible for change being organized in specific way .
6 Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods .
7 Speaking next , Medvedev 's report on his work as secretary for ideology was greeted with open hostility , and there were jeers and whistling as he left the podium .
8 Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 .
9 In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest .
10 Bilateral talks on fishing quotas off Newfoundland were scheduled for early July in Ottawa , Canada .
11 Apparently , in Ireland , stopping for hitchhikers is seen as Christian behaviour .
12 Four further claims for Hurricanes were made by all 12 pilots of the 156° Gruppo jointly , two confirmed and two probables .
13 For both types the minimum number of students enrolled qualifying for grant-aid was fixed at nine .
14 In February , March and April , the median is also 47 per cent , so the value for March is altered to 47 .
15 Since the demand for money is related to several variables , according to Friedman and the monetarists , then it may be difficult to measure the precise effect of a change in one of these variables on the demand for money .
16 Licences for fire-arms were issued under careful control and the hunting confined to a privileged few .
17 Plynus 's desire for advancement is seen against economic trends which entice people from their duties .
18 It requires extra software , and the IBM XT emulator for the Acorn Archimedes with the ARM microprocessor using RISC architecture ( based on the original RISC I design ) runs slower than the Intel 8088 , the slowest of the PC processors , under the MS-DOS operating system.Also as RISCs are designed with high-level languages in mind , designing in assembly is very tedious unlike assembly programming with CISCs where there are instructions for complex tasks and so programming is relatively simple and , as a result , less time-consuming .
19 The continuous variables knowledge , attitudes , and beliefs about smoking were assessed on five scales .
20 This next version of the bucket brigade algorithm seems to be the best way to solve the credit assignment problem when conflicts between rules are resolved with simple weights .
21 Third , there has been substantial criticism of the implication of the human capital theory that income inequalities both within nations and between nations are reduced through increased investment in education .
22 A homebody 's disgust with the restless owners of fast cars , a temperate man 's contempt for drinkers were impacted into this begrudged advice .
23 There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised .
24 So a hundred and fifty percent of my genes for altruism are saved in three siblings , compared to one hundred percent lost in me .
25 This conclusion was hotly disputed by the POA , although there can be little doubt that the running of the prison system had come to depend unhealthily on overtime ( for which the prison officers were of course paid extra at higher rates ) and that at least some of this need for overtime was generated by unnecessary restrictive practices .
26 We were told that in 1988 , when life sentences for murder were passed in 150 cases , only 10 minimum recommendations were made .
27 Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority .
28 The majority decided that challenge for fraud was precluded after six weeks .
29 On the domestic scene glass has for centuries been worked into fine tableware , chandeliers and ornaments .
30 The date for completion was agreed at three months ahead , and that was that .
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