Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Easy to follow instructions on how to use this service are given by ringing the above number . |
| 4 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | B types are broken on mixing the two components . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tight German recycling laws had been blamed for encouraging the illegal disposal of waste in neighbouring countries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Above all , we are committed to providing the best service in the business . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have worked closely with Technology on a number of service projects and I know that they are committed to providing the best possible service , ’ said John . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , sponsors of commissioned works are committed to accepting the finished product , even if the composer fails to produce exactly what was envisaged or specified . |
| 20 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 21 | At The Shaker Shop , Tim Lamb and Liz Shirley are committed to presenting the essential simplicity of authentic Shaker style . |
| 22 | ‘ We are committed to retaining the nuclear option for the future , provided the industry can demonstrate that nuclear generation is economic and provided it can meet rigorous standards of safety and environmental protection . ’ |
| 23 | We are committed to applying the best practicable health and safety standards in our business to protect our employees , contractors , visitors , customers , shareholders and the community . |
| 24 | The departments which teach modern European languages — French , German , Italian , Portuguese , Russian , Scandinavian , Spanish , Celtic — are committed to preserving the best features of traditional courses of language study so that students may acquire competence and skill in the written and spoken language as well as an extensive knowledge of the literature and civilisation of the countries concerned . |
| 25 | In the first and last resort , the law , and therefore all courts and judges , are committed to upholding the prevailing social , economic and political order and they will not countenance activities that threaten that order . |
| 26 | Nevertheless they are constrained from deploying the usual wind-up techniques by their overriding concern to justify their actions and attitudes to someone who disapproved of them but whom they perceived to be in a position to influence their situation for better or worse . |
| 27 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 28 | Once our parents are dead , we are catapulted into becoming the older generation ourselves . |
| 29 | Here I am talking to you about myself — a thing I assure you I very very rarely do — while you are shrinking from making the slightest personal communication to me . |
| 30 | Although the two leaders signed 15 low-level agreements covering issues such as environmental protection , nuclear energy and cultural links , no significant progress appeared to have been made towards resolving the outstanding dispute arising from the Soviet Union 's occupation of the four islands north of Hokkaido . |