Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [modal v] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand-reared birds can be put back in the nest once they can feed themselves , but if they 've become imprinted on a human , they may not respond properly to the other birds and the parents may reject them . |
| 2 | Panic announced on Oct. 15 that joint working groups would be set up to deal with human rights violations , the lifting of discriminatory laws , media freedom and education . |
| 3 | Tom King , then Local Government Minister , announced that no further geological investigations would be carried out in any of the selected areas . |
| 4 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 5 | By taking volumes and weights into account , definite formulae could be fixed on , beginning with water as H 2 O. |
| 6 | Unfortunately , few activities can be shut down for set periods , most being operational all the year round . |
| 7 | LEGISLATION making the fitting of smoke alarms compulsory in all new Scottish houses will be brought in as soon as possible , the Government pledged last night . |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1904 he was still rejecting the mild suggestion from Sviatopolk-Mirsky , very much along the lines of Loris-Melikov 's proposals of 1881 , that representatives of public institutions should be co-opted on to the State Council . |
| 9 | The effects of environments of different symmetry upon the terms for different ions can be worked out using group theory . |
| 10 | But FIFA threatened that if he was not forced to back down , all five French clubs would be thrown out of next week 's European competitions , the national team would be barred from the 1994 World Cup finals and that France would no longer be able to host the 1998 finals . |
| 11 | Will the Minister assure the House that empty houses will be handed over to local councils or housing associations for rent either to redundant service men or to others ? |
| 12 | The government last year announced that those who forget to flush public toilets will be fined up to 500 U S dollars . |
| 13 | Vibration tests on a suitable vibrator for a period of some hours should be carried out in appropriate instances . |
| 14 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 15 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 16 | Restricting co-operative ventures to R&D alone , or to R&D and joint production but not joint marketing , makes sense whenever these different activities can be carried out independently without much loss of efficiency . |
| 17 | Critics of the Government say some homes could be forced out of business . |
| 18 | If the job is a newly created one then clear guidelines should be drawn up of what the candidate will be expected to do , what qualifications , skills , abilities and personal qualities they will need . |
| 19 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
| 20 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 21 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 22 | Narrative words can be passed over fairly quickly by declamation , which can vary between two extremes . |
| 23 | One reason for the ubiquity of Dataease may be the ease with which well presented and reliable Databases can be set up . |
| 24 | Similarly the moral crusaders , newspaper proprietors and muck-raking journalists should be called off . |
| 25 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 26 | Law areas can be raised by packing out with small pieces of wood behind the batten , and high areas can be planed down . |
| 27 | Recommendations have been made ( Chavalit Mangkalaviraj , personal communication ) that information given to travellers and epidemiological data should be exchanged internationally and that study tours for health staff in interested countries should be set up . |
| 28 | Detailed evaluations can be carried out on this mock-up before the real system is constructed . |
| 29 | This year eight tons of prime beef , four tons of fresh salmon and four tons of fresh strawberries will be gobbled up . |
| 30 | According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously . |