Example sentences of "[conj] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also asks : ‘ Has plague occurred or been suspected among the rats or mice on board ? ’ |
| 2 | So far of the thousand locusts a couple of hundred have perished or been eaten by the scorpions . |
| 3 | Either I get hooked on the story or message to the exclusion of the drawings , or am arrested by the designs and can not be bothered with the balloons . |
| 4 | The majority of animals are bred in the zoo as a part of a captive breeding programme or are exchanged amongst the zoos . |
| 5 | In this approach , solutions in the interaction region for or are related to the functions and , and hence S may be obtained as a function of f and g . |
| 6 | Official figures do not usually include animals that escape or are released from the nets but have nevertheless been mortally wounded . |
| 7 | It is therefore necessary to ask the question : in what circumstances can persons , other than the original landlord or landlady ( L ) and the original tenant ( T ) , sue or be sued upon the covenants in the lease ? |
| 8 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 9 | They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) . |
| 10 | An expensive composite construction may be very fast , easy to lug about ashore , but will it stand the knocks of inexperienced users or being dragged across the pebbles or concrete sides of a reservoir ? |
| 11 | De Klerk stressed the need for " built-in guarantees and mechanisms which would prevent South Africa from falling into a one-party state or being delivered into the hands of an irrational dictator " . |
| 12 | Or be buried in The Times when the fateful question is asked . |
| 13 | The case of Goff v Gauthier ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 388 has shown that it must be fair and reasonable for the vendor to rely on this exclusion ( see page 62 ) ; ( e ) to state that the vendor will not be liable to the extent that any claim arises out of or is increased by the acts or omissions of the purchaser after completion ; ( f ) to provide that the purchaser must give credit for the amount by which assets are found to have been understated , or liabilities have been over-provided for in the accounts ; ( g ) to ensure that the purchaser pays to the vendor all amounts subsequently recovered from third parties relating to claims that have been paid by the vendor . |
| 14 | Alternatively , the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets and arose or was derived from the places where those assets were when sold or licensed and remain ; all outside Hong Kong . |
| 15 | It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) . |
| 16 | The warranties that are obtained from the vendors are much less wide ranging than is the case in an " arms'-length " transaction . |
| 17 | plan research programs that are tailored to the needs of each different ‘ cluster ’ of countries . |
| 18 | The anthropic principle does provide some sort of explanation of many of the remarkable numerical relations that are observed between the values of different physical parameters . |
| 19 | The documents that are sent to the Companies Registration Office for the registration of a single-member company are the same as those required for multi-member companies . |
| 20 | The effective pollinators are a pair of Epicharis spp. but there are glandular trichomes inside the corolla , secreting oils that are deposited on the anthers , but this is collected only by Trigona pallens , an ineffective pollinator . |
| 21 | There are thus two types of query that are answered by a GIS . |
| 22 | The Engineering Council also operates the Technology Enhancement Programme which is for 14–19 year olds and aims to increase capability in technology , mathematics and science , developing skills that are matched to the needs of industry . |
| 23 | A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date . |
| 24 | A GIS stores both cartographic data ( showing topography or individual themes such as soils or geology ) and attribute data associated with the spatial entities ( points , lines and polygons ) that are represented on the maps . |
| 25 | Documents are comprised of words , and searchers and indexers use words to represent or convey concepts ; at this stage however , it is important for the indexer to attempt to identify the concepts that are represented by the words . |
| 26 | However , it will say that everything is being done to see that whatever attempts that are made on the whereabouts of its disclosures will be judged by their predicament and a positive answer will be prepared . |
| 27 | But the destruction of the old Communist Party is completed by two policies that are adopted by the Communists themselves , both a response to the defeat they have suffered in nineteen twenty seven . |
| 28 | Meagre villages that are blighted by the camps and their factories . |
| 29 | The stimuli that trigger this action are usually moving objects that hang down from above , or toys that are thrown to the kittens by their owners . |
| 30 | The unit should be used pre-U/V and pre-filter to take advantage of the following abilities that are claimed for the units : |