Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’
2 Many teenagers feel embarrassed when asked to sing , and few adults are heard singing around the house or whistling on street corners .
3 The avoidance of such fluctuations was considered desirable not only as a first stage in monetary union but also for the smooth operation of the Common Agricultural Policy , since food prices are calculated according to the exchange value of member currencies .
4 Fees for investment business certificates are calculated according to the number of principals in an MNP or directors and shareholders in an RB .
5 The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies .
6 The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus .
7 The systems planning team will ensure that the subsystems are developed according to the plan which allows for some form of integration later .
8 This background context within which the rules ( both substantive and procedural ) are developed impinges upon the relationship between the actors and the nature of the rules which they establish .
9 A Scotsman had been witnessed hammering on the door of the nearby Bull public house .
10 Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements .
11 Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock .
12 He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’
13 A total of 4,300,000 Angolans had been registered to vote by the July 31 deadline , but in the expectation of the registration of a further 1,000,000 voters , the UN team extended the deadline by another 10 days .
14 These values have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro .
15 The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro .
16 The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) .
17 Repayments and interest have then been calculated according to the terms of the agreement and the estimates of drawings .
18 Three kinds of power are differentiated according to the means employed to make the subordinates comply : physical , material or symbolic .
19 New modules have been developed to link with the requirements of the Road Transport Industry Training Board .
20 Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common .
21 The methods and techniques which have been developed to cope with the child-rearing process seem to apply equally to families who are experiencing the difficulties and frustrations of caring for an ageing relative .
22 A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system .
23 And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book .
24 In a separate case , those students have been given standing in the Montgomery County Orphans Court for their petition to deny the foundation permission to change the terms of Dr Barnes 's will without reasonable grounds .
25 As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution .
26 Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief .
27 At the rear of the idol , seven round indents are formed beginning at the base of the spine and extending to the head .
28 Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ?
29 These are team meetings where the analysis and design specifications and other documentation are exposed to review by the members of the team .
30 from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and
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