Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement issued by the politburo of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) on April 5 stated that the organization 's deputy secretary-general , Yassir Abd Rabbuh , had been dismissed after creating a breakaway faction in mid-January . |
| 2 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 3 | Private companies can get rid of the pre-emptive rights — by altering their articles , again by special resolution — unless and until the articles are altered by deleting the relevant clause . |
| 4 | Easy to follow instructions on how to use this service are given by ringing the above number . |
| 5 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 6 | Members of an enterprise association are joined in seeking a common substantive satisfaction , whether it be profit maximization as in the case of a company or a change in human behaviour as in the case of the Anti-Bloodsports League . |
| 7 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 8 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 9 | It is also more tentative because much of the material has been developed by using a psychoanalytic perspective and so is about people 's subjective experiences . |
| 10 | B types are broken on mixing the two components . |
| 11 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 12 | But its limits are exposed by asking a simple question : why , then , should Mr Lawson not be quite happy to see the deficit get even larger ? |
| 13 | Hybrid parameters relevant to the three configurations are distinguished by adding a second subscript so that , for example , the common-emitter h-parameters are denoted by , , and . |
| 14 | It has caused collection problems on a hitherto unprecedented scale , and more than £100 million worth of taxpayers ' money has been squandered on administering the wretched tax in Wales alone . |
| 15 | The division on the Determination of Needs Bill debate in February 1941 was reprinted from Hansard , citing all 173 who had voted for the continuance of means calculations together with the ‘ sincere few ’ ( nineteen ) who had been carpeted for defying the Labour whip . |
| 16 | The purpose of this paper is to indicate — by reference to cases coming before the industrial tribunals — that dismissal of a convicted and imprisoned employee is far from always fair and that some industrial tribunals ensure that employers are discouraged from adding a further punishment to the one already imposed by the proper authorities . |
| 17 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 18 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 19 | Pressure for multiple units has been alleviated by making the 09.25 summer Saturday Birmingham to Pwllheli loco-hauled with a 31 providing the motive power . |
| 20 | Ferris was on the verge of signing for Linfield last season but has decided now to pledge his immediate future to the Lurgan club , who are expected to announced a major kit sponsorship shortly . |
| 21 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 22 | RTZ 's Tinto Holdings Canada Ltd subsidiary has a controlling interest in a company which mines uranium at Elliot Lake , Ontario , which has been blamed for destroying the fishing-based economy of the local Anishnabe Indians . |
| 23 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 24 | Substantial progress has been reported in understanding the molecular pathology of presenile Alzheimer 's disease but this can not be extrapolated to senile forms before the epidemiology of presenile disease is known . |
| 25 | Milton 's Paradise Lost or Spenser 's Faerie Queene are applauded for bringing a sophisticated use of classical epic conventions into English , creating national works which stand comparison with those of antiquity . |
| 26 | Dr Allan said the two men were bearing up well and were in better condition than had been expected after making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass . |
| 27 | Social security has always been committed to meeting a reasonable rate . |
| 28 | The EC has been committed to establishing a Common Market since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957 . |
| 29 | The Government are committed to pursuing a vigorous competition policy in the brewing industry and elsewhere . |
| 30 | He says the government might have given approval but questions whether are committed to bringing a new Nottinghamshire power station on stream . |