Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saints fans have been honoured to have seen the likes of Tom Van Vollenhoven and Mal Meninga . |
| 2 | But for the moment , it is literally a case of meltdown at the rink , where instructions have been given to begin melting the ice . |
| 3 | Every professional body that had been consulted has rejected the programme and the proposals attaching to it . |
| 4 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 5 | Large crowds of Catholics from Poland , Ukraine and Belarus are expected to flock to hear the Pope , although officials in Vilnius said thousands of beds prepared for pilgrims were still unclaimed . |
| 6 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 7 | The heat is so intense that the rails are likely to buckle and passengers are expected to help repair the track . |
| 8 | U.S. and allied warplanes are expected to start enforcing the ban , ordered by the UN on Wednesday , within the next two weeks . |
| 9 | Assessment of the PhD/MPhil is by thesis and viva voce In addition candidates are expected to have published a review or preliminary research findings and contributed to research seminars . |
| 10 | Mr FREEDMAN adds : ‘ The hazards of playgrounds to young children are well recognised , and among other measures , absorbent surfaces have been recommended to help reduce the severity of injuries . |
| 11 | Usually parents are permitted to stop using the alarm if the child has had fourteen to twenty-one dry nights , but need to be warned that the child may relapse for a short time . |
| 12 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 13 | THE political opinion pollsters , along with Neil Kinnock , are deemed to have lost the election . |
| 14 | All entrants to the competition are deemed to have accepted the rules and agreed to be bound by them . |
| 15 | All entrants to the competition are deemed to have accepted the rules and agreed to be bound by them . |
| 16 | Licentiate by experience are deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the Professional Certificate and are eligible to enrol on the Diploma Programme . |
| 17 | ‘ But I have been approached to consider seeking a nomination in another ward and I am giving that some consideration . |
| 18 | Some drivers are reported to have taken the law into their own hands by illegally carrying weapons to defend themselves . |
| 19 | Hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have fled the area . |
| 20 | The problem is blamed on the land users themselves , who are seen to have mismanaged the environment because of lack of environmental awareness , ignorance , apathy and just plain laziness . |
| 21 | The two procedures are seen to attempt to handle the result of an imposed change of mechanism state in different ways . |
| 22 | Further , larger authorities are felt to have increased the influence of officials and — very important from a Conservative viewpoint — this influence has not helped to reduce expenditure . |
| 23 | About 500,000 Sri Lankans , out of a population of 17m , are reckoned to have left the country because of the war . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the prosecution failed to disclose that the complainant had a spent conviction for theft , and it was held that , had the conviction been duly disclosed , the defence would have applied for and would undoubtedly have been granted leave to cross-examine the complainant about it . |
| 25 | He had swum against the tide at a time when schools to which specific counsellor appointments had previously been made had used a counsellor 's vacancy , at a time of teaching staff reductions , for other purposes . |
| 26 | The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits . |
| 27 | Such schemes are said to help align the interests of managers with those of shareholders and hence make the former behave more like owners . |
| 28 | Language experts are said to have challenged the conclusions of four top scientists — reported in my Daily Mirror column — that a key confession was false . |
| 29 | Its three stars and two stripes are said to have influenced the design for the American flag . |
| 30 | The peasants are said to have cut the outline of the giant in the chalk around his dead body . |