Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were no lies and half-truths in the world , doubt would be superfluous for everything could be believed . |
| 2 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 3 | The draft constitution also proposed the replacement of the RCC by a Consultative Council with 50 members , half of whom would be appointed directly by the President and the rest elected by direct secret ballot . |
| 4 | Later plans involved an additional expenditure of about £150 million to take the railway into Bank , about half of which would be met by the Canary Wharf developers ( see below ) . |
| 5 | Each will cover between 40 and 80 square miles , about half of which will be cloaked in trees . |
| 6 | The lottery is expected to raise around £1 billion per year , about half of which will be used to support the arts ( in particular the national heritage ) , with the remainder allocated to protection of the environment , sports and charities . |
| 7 | Start with a length of about seven metres of wire , precisely half of which should be spooled onto a shuttle thin enough to pass through the centre of the toroid . |
| 8 | If the Government accepts this ridiculous advice , half of us will be put on the dole . |
| 9 | First , about half of it will be used to pay creditors and to meet legal fees connected with the bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 10 | On the other hand , there were around sixty southern Democrats , potential ‘ Boll Weevils ’ , some of whom might be induced to vote with the administration . |
| 11 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 12 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 13 | So the group at Shepherd 's Bush has a way to go before some of them might be deemed fit to audition there or at other vocational schools . |
| 14 | Oh they were they were er crisscrosses and er and r and some of them would be rounded . |
| 15 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 16 | To get a feel for the approaches adopted , some of them will be examined in more detail in this chapter . |
| 17 | So some of them will be given and some of them wo n't and you 'll work out which ones can I fit in here opposite adjacent or that . |
| 18 | Some of them will be based at UN headquarters , making decisions about the deployment of troops . |
| 19 | Some of them will be developed further with the use of private sector capital — particularly Port Wakefield if , as a result of the public inquiry to be held this month , a decision to go ahead is given . |
| 20 | Some of them will be answered in the lecture but those that are not should be asked at an appropriate point . |
| 21 | Most are commonplace but no matter how sophisticated an operation some of them will be used . |
| 22 | Firms that do not already offer coverage will be obliged to cough up — and some of them will be forced out of business . |
| 23 | Some of them will be described soon ; but first , as always , it behoves us to study their data . |
| 24 | Some of them can be isolated . ’ |
| 25 | The only reliable way to see them was to pass in front of the building and turn left into the road to the cemetery : from that side some of them could be seen craning out of the windows and waving . |
| 26 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 27 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 28 | Some of them could be reversed by making the engine almost stop then run the opposite way . |
| 29 | If muggers can be deterred by punitive sentencing , then some of them must be made an example of . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of them must be educated . ’ |