Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 3 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 4 | The position with regard to side letters ( setting out supplemental agreements ) is that they may not be binding as they probably will not have been referred to in the principal agreement . |
| 5 | The close relationship between criterion-referenced assessment and the curriculum has been referred to in the previous section . |
| 6 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 7 | These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively . |
| 8 | But these are official figures which do not include what are referred to as the hidden homeless — those sharing households and those living rough . |
| 9 | The aims of the legislation and the expectations of those responsible for it are referred to in the following passage : |
| 10 | Some languages quite openly exploit this belief : Janssen-Jurreit notes that in Konkani , a language of south India , there is a distinction between married women ( who are referred to by the feminine form ) and young or widowed women ( who get the neuter to mark their lesser status ) . |
| 11 | These are all the potential problems we are exposed to in the twentieth century . |
| 12 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 13 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 14 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 15 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 16 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 17 | In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family . |
| 18 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 19 | The General Assembly condemned the invasion and asserted the rights of the East Timorese people to self-determination , but the matter has not been voted upon in the General Assembly since 1982 . |
| 20 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |
| 21 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 22 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 23 | As discussed above , the high currency of the group awards of HNC and HND has been built upon in the Advanced Courses Development Programme and the expressed need for analogous awards in the National Certificate has convinced SCOTVEC of the desirability of having group awards at all levels . |
| 24 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 25 | The Bank has been written to on the 5th February 1993 seeking a meeting for this purpose . |
| 26 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 27 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 28 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 29 | at the present time we 're saying to on the monthly report we 're saying to the client , we 've spent three thousand out of five thousand , and their anticipated final cost is going to be five thousand . |
| 30 | The , one of the things that we carried forward to do with influencing , erm memories and attitudes , if you 're thinking about in the positive model , positive way , it 'd say going into an situation , I 've been here before , and I was successful . |