Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 2 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 3 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 4 | Over the years the original anti-Common Marketeers have been joined by several other groups . |
| 5 | In parallel with civilianisation of the police , will my hon. Friend ensure that instructions are given to all chief constables to increase further the designation of special constables and to increase the special constabulary , which would lead to more bobbies on the beat ? |
| 6 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 7 | The major breed societies and their representatives are listed in many good books and in publications like the Horse and Hound Diary . |
| 8 | This is possible because the ability of even very young children to engage in reflective thought has now been recognized in many educational circles ( see Chapters 5 and 7 for discussion of this ) . |
| 9 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 10 | Instead , some examples will be given of the type of claims that have been made in the courts of the United Kingdom , Australia , and the United States , and of the responses that have been favoured by these domestic courts . |
| 11 | A large number of the old lime trees were felled by the gales in October 1987 , but young limes have been placed in those same positions in order to preserve the avenue . |
| 12 | Mike reckons that this part of Switzerland , which has been frequented by most top DJs , is one of dance music 's best-kept secrets . |
| 13 | The very fundamental notion of the phoneme , for example , has been treated in many different ways . |
| 14 | We are helping with some specific problems that will occur in the run-down , such as the expansion of the former military hospital at Dharan . |
| 15 | Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups . |
| 16 | The confusion over Anglo-American relations has been compounded by some influential Americans , including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger , who subsequently argued that the United States should have backed the British over Suez in 1956 . |
| 17 | Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions . |
| 18 | The need for training has been highlighted in many major reports . |
| 19 | Clerical Medical 's record of consistent performance has been highlighted in many independent surveys and has attracted much favourable comment . |
| 20 | Intermittent series based on 50 year averages have also been calculated for another 50 items , and a large number of individual valuations for items which occur only rarely have also been collected . |
| 21 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 22 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 23 | The decisions of this court are binding on all inferior courts trying civil or criminal cases , including divisional courts . |
| 24 | Decisions of the House of Lords are binding upon all other courts trying civil or criminal cases . |
| 25 | This was grievous enough , but there was worse : the confidence and coherence of the Austrian Army had been broken in these first weeks of the war , and it was never again to comprise an efficient military weapon . |
| 26 | Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold . |
| 27 | Our pupils are exposed to many different materials , tools and processes and from the beginning they are taught the importance of the design process . |
| 28 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 29 | The 800 species of hermit crab that occur in the world 's oceans are distinguished from all other crabs by living inside the unoccupied shells of marine snails . |
| 30 | However , humans are distinguished from all other primates by their precision grip which enables them to manipulate objects with much greater control and accuracy . |