Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are placed in a position analogous to that of a government agency and must ultimately reach a decision on the basis of the public good . |
| 2 | The inductions in the two cores cancel out precisely when the cores are placed in a zero external field ; an external field causes asymmetric pulses of amplitude and position dependent on the polarity and strength of the external field . |
| 3 | The situations are treated in an order different from that above . |
| 4 | Core skills have also been developed at a stage suitable for the new National Certificate ( Skillstart 1 ) and National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) awards . |
| 5 | The acetylcholine sweat spot test was carried out injecting 0.1 ml of a 1% solution of acetylcholine ( Miochol — CooperVision Ltd , Southampton , UK ) intradermally using a 25 gauge needle in a marked area of the dorsum of the foot which had previously been painted with a 2% alcholic iodine solution and a suspension of maize starch in arachis oil ( 100 g in 100 ml ) . |
| 6 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 7 | They have also been regarded as a topic distinctive to fluid dynamics . |
| 8 | In February 1988 he had been indicted by a Miami grand jury for having conspired between 1981 and 1986 with the Medellín drugs cartel of Colombia to traffick drugs into the USA . |
| 9 | Fracture porosity may also have been the reason for relatively good reservoirs in these regions of anthracite and meta-anthracite rank : these gas fields are situated in a W.N.W.-E.N.E. striking , weak structural zone at the northern margin of the Bramsche Massif which , according to Stadler and R. Teichmüller ( 1971 ) , is characterised by relatively late and deep reaching faults along with the ascendence of hydrothermal solutions and deposition of ore minerals were possible . |
| 10 | Large ventilated discs all round are supplemented by a Bosch four-channel anti-lock system . |
| 11 | procedural acts ( pleadings , motions , orders and subpoenas ) that are served and requests for information that are made by a judicial or administrative authority of a State Party to a judicial or administrative authority of another State Party and are transmitted by a letter rogatory from the Central Authority of the State of origin to the Central Authority of the State of destination . |
| 12 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 13 | The war could not be won because so many irredeemable mistakes had been made by a leadership unwilling to accept expert advice ; recent decrees and ‘ many speeches ’ were said to have contradicted the ‘ true will of the people ’ ; and the leaders had underestimated Russia and other countries . |
| 14 | Sadly , these calls have not been heeded because in the United Kingdom this has been seen as a party political issue instead of an important pointer to priorities for action . |
| 15 | Scrum half Jonathan Wrigley and the entire front row of Phil Lancaster , Paul Whitelock and Simon Mitchell have been selected for a North Select XV to face a Cumbria President 's XV at Keswick on Sunday . |
| 16 | Had she been used for a purpose other than the stated one ? |
| 17 | The principal pension scheme 's accounts are audited by a firm other than Touche Ross , which acts for Dixons Group plc . |
| 18 | The exhibits are displayed in a pitch black room and have to be viewed by torchlight . |
| 19 | A tech murmured incantations as he stroked the wires running from this to a bone-framed screen where runes and formulae flickered ; the man 's left hand had been replaced by a baroque prosthetic voltmeter with electrode claws . |
| 20 | Where matrimonial proceedings are raised in a country other than England ( eg , Canada , Australia or USA ) against a spouse resident in Scotland and these are not to be defended and the only questions arising relate to aliment , custody and access , which can be disposed of with a minimum of meetings and correspondence , the Central Committee will allow modest charges under the Scheme for that purpose . |
| 21 | Where divorce proceedings are raised in a country other than England ( eg , Canada , Australia or USA ) against a spouse resident in Scotland , which the spouse wishes to defend or where a spouse resident in Scotland wishes to raise divorce proceedings in one of these countries , all a Scottish solicitor is entitled to do under the Scheme is to give the client preliminary advice on his or her legal position and the course of action open . |
| 22 | Specific sites away from shipping lanes , fishing grounds , submarine cables and so on are isolated in a way difficult to achieve on land . |
| 23 | If there is one general visual recognition system then visual word recognition should be primed by prior picture presentation ; since this is not so , it can be inferred that visually presented words are recognised by a system specific to words — a visual word-recognition system . |
| 24 | Agreement has also been reached for a Europe-wide European Mountain Leader Award with France , Belgium , Italy , Spain and the UK for leaders of walking groups in the mountains of Europe below the glacier line . |
| 25 | THE Premier League may have been billed as a whole new ball game , but for the smaller clubs the survival struggle is the same as ever . |
| 26 | Robert Titford 's life was destined , like that of his father , to be a tragically short one ; the boy from the dockside parish whose early years must have been spent in an atmosphere redolent of the sea and ships , old tars and tales of high adventure , chose to make his living on the ocean waves . |
| 27 | John lost an arm and a leg as a result of a motorcycle 12 years ago and he has been provided with a £200 electronic device , the size of a cigarette pack , that uses electric signals to relieve discomfort . |
| 28 | Handout 1 , a view of the Castle which will help players orientate on arrival , has been provided in a form suitable for excising if you wish . |
| 29 | The trouble began when 10,000 Moslems marched in the town centre , protesting that permission had been granted for a five-day Christian revivalist rally to be addressed by a German preacher , Reinhard Bonnke , whereas some weeks previously permission had been refused for a South African imam to visit Kano . |
| 30 | The takeover had been financed by an £837,000,000 Blue Arrow rights offer in September 1987 which had , however , been only partially successful . |