Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 2 | In both the Sacred Dance and the Grandstand Frescoes , the priestesses are shown seated in places of honour , centrally , prominently and with a clear view of the ceremonies being conducted before them . |
| 3 | Labyrinths of this type have been found inscribed on tombs in Egypt dating to 3400BC , and the same design occurs on the Cretan coins of the Minoan period , though it may have originated in much earlier times . |
| 4 | Penguins and seals have been found entangled in lengths of fishing net , some of them dead and many others badly hurt . |
| 5 | Such a requirement , however , would not be compatible with those provisions if it had to be interpreted as precluding registration in the event that a secondary establishment or the centre for directing the operations of the vessel in the member state in which the vessel was to be registered acted on instructions from a decision-taking centre located in the member state of the principal establishment . |
| 6 | When it was revealed that the 14 candidates polling the least votes and thus threatened with exclusion from the central committee included such notables as Abalkin , Shevardnadze , Ryzhkov , Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov and CPSU international department head Valentin Falin , Gorbachev intervened with a proposal that they too should be deemed elected by virtue of having won a legitimate majority , this being accepted by the congress . |
| 7 | The exercise was regarded by the then minister for health in Scotland , Michael Forsyth , as a piece of ‘ action ’ research , the results of which would be made known at intervals during the evaluation . |
| 8 | This again is not unique to Lescar , because there are similarly maimed figures to be seen sculpted on churches in the French Pyrenees . |
| 9 | How such formidable influence would be used depended in part on how deeply liberal-democratic values had become entrenched since 1945 . |
| 10 | Zeolite , a type of rock , will remove ammonia , and can be bought combined with charcoal in a kind of ‘ dream ticket ’ . |
| 11 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 12 | Other passages were to be judged mistaken in terms of this criterion . |
| 13 | He was often to be found slumped in front of the television , muttering about nig-nogs . |
| 14 | Powerful and famous gentlemen became regular visitors to the house — including , I remember , figures such as Lord Daniels , Professor Maynard Keynes , and Mr H. G. Wells , the renowned author , as well as others who , because they came ‘ off the record ’ , I should not name here — and they and his lordship were often to be found locked in discussion for hours on end . |
| 15 | The European Community plays a vital role in developing law in the United Kingdom , and it is important for Scottish solicitors both to have a say in its formation and to be kept informed of changes in Brussels . ’ |
| 16 | Employees will be kept informed of developments in connection with the Council Tax staffing arrangements . |
| 17 | From the Secretary of Juniper Green School Board a ] to the Director of Education in connection with transport of Juniper Green pupils to Currie High School b ] to Councillor Mrs. Brereton asking that she might be kept informed re developments in connection with the Foresters Hall . |
| 18 | From the Secretary of Juniper Green School Board a ] to the Director of Education in connection with transport of Juniper Green pupils to Currie High School b ] to Councillor Mrs. Brereton asking that she might be kept informed re developments in connection with the Foresters Hall . |
| 19 | ( A 48-hour lull in violence in the occupied territories ended on June 25 when three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle in the West Bank , and two Jews were reported stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip . ) |
| 20 | The bloodiest massacres were on Aug. 3 , when 140 reportedly died in attacks at two mosques in Kattankudy ; on Aug. 6 , when 58 bodies were recovered after two incidents ; and on Aug. 11-12 , when 100-170 were reported killed at Eravur in the Batticaloa region . |
| 21 | Thirty unarmed workers protesting against the flouting of labour laws were reported killed by police in Bhilai , Madhya Pradesh , on July 1 . |
| 22 | Dams were built linked by causeways to a series of smaller outpost forts . |
| 23 | Worse , they and the new land against which loans were secured declined in value in some cases to less than the amount borrowed , forcing lenders to foreclose . |
| 24 | Once again Wirral was singled out with headlines about many babies being born addicted to heroin in Wirral 's maternity units and moving stories about local families wrecked by heroin addiction . |
| 25 | The family , mother , father and their 16 year old son were found battered to death at their home in Upper Ridings , Beckonsfield . |
| 26 | The bodies of a couple and their teenage son were found battered to death in their Beckonsfield home . |
| 27 | The bodies of a couple and their teenage son were found battered to death in their Beckonsfield home earlier today . |
| 28 | In an incident linked by unofficial Estonian sources to the crackdown in Latvia and Lithuania , two senior Swedish trade union officials were found murdered in Tallinn on Jan. 24 . |
| 29 | There is a Federal Assembly of 42 members , elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term , most recently in March 1987 , when all seats were declared won by candidates of the then sole legal party , the Union for Comorian Progress , although opposition candidates were permitted to stand ; legislative elections are expected to be held in the course of 1990 . |
| 30 | The Federal Assembly was last elected in March 1987 , when all seats were declared won by candidates of the then sole legal party , Udzima , although opposition candidates were permitted to stand . |