Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from their very high technical quality , as in the enamels by Le Sueur on the 1760 Prémin box , nearly all boxes are distinguished either by artists ' signatures or by their provenance . |
| 2 | The low rate is possible because loans are made out of members ' own savings . |
| 3 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 4 | The first may be related specifically to GPs ' training as medical practitioners . |
| 5 | Animal insulins continue to be needed both from patients ' and from doctors ' points of view . |
| 6 | The ‘ information ’ part of Vredeling , which would apply to employers with 1,000 or more employees , would require that information relating to the business as a whole , and to the employees ' own particular subsidiaries or establishments , be supplied annually to employees ' representatives . |
| 7 | The net proceeds from the issue of equity shares and warrants for equity shares should be credited directly to shareholders ' funds . |
| 8 | At this , Golding decided they should be driven back to Swans ' Meadow , accompanied by Finch and a lugubrious detective sergeant called Barrett . |
| 9 | Organiser Rose Cuthbertson said the show would be followed up with teachers ' action packs and practical workshop sessions on the environment . |
| 10 | Organiser Rose Cuthbertson said the show would be followed up with teachers ' action packs and practical workshop sessions on the environment . |
| 11 | Given its rather élitist duties , it is not surprising to note that the PSBC would be funded out of taxpayers ' money and rents paid by ITV contractors and not by the ( few ) consumers of its products . |
| 12 | It would have capital resources of 10,000 million ECU ( some US$12,400 million ) , 30 per cent of this to be paid up in members ' subscriptions and the rest being callable capital . |
| 13 | Water-fleas ( Daphnia ) , blood-worms and a few other kinds of small animal can be purchased cheaply from aquarists ' shops , where they are sold as live food for tropical fish . |
| 14 | This chapter will look at the different explanations that have been put forward for girls ' 'failure' in education , and at some of the research that has been done in this area . |
| 15 | The tests were based on European Standards , adapted to conditions in the home , and were carried out on Maples ' 100% nylon twist-pile carpet and on tiled flooring . |
| 16 | With his colleagues Lippitt and White he reported the results of well-known experiments which were carried out in boys ' clubs established for the purposes of their studies . |
| 17 | I was very proud of those she made for outdoor wear , perhaps because they were different ; they were generally made from offcuts of the various dress lengths being made up into ladies ' costumes . |
| 18 | That was eight years after the Lloyd 's scandal — involving tens of millions of pounds being syphoned off into directors ' pockets — erupted . |
| 19 | SHELL-SHOCKED West Ham missed the chance to steal second place from Division One promotion rivals Tranmere last night after being shot down by Rovers ' ace marksman John Aldridge . |
| 20 | Buzzards are still persecuted by game preservers in some parts of the county , birds being found twice on gamekeepers ' gibbets in 1971 , for example . |
| 21 | Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited . |
| 22 | This would lead to a balance of payments crisis and devaluation , coupled with domestic inflation as wages were bid up by employers ' demand for labour . |
| 23 | The government had not intervened in the dockers ' ban , and although they supported the Poles against the Bolsheviks they were aware of the general feelings amongst the working classes , which were expressed vociferously at workers ' meetings throughout the country . |
| 24 | Day to day work is carried out by contractors ' own labour or British Gas ' industrial staff under control of our supervisors and engineers . |
| 25 | The group is made up of miners ' wives and relatives , ably supported by a cross-section of concerned individuals on this particular morning a retired teacher , two people running local businesses , and a lecturer . |
| 26 | Teaching support is offered either at Goldsmiths ' College in our own language classes with the help of experienced support tutors or in neighbouring adult education institutes , particularly those which offer community languages or ESOL . |
| 27 | There seems a good case for saying that , until the new date is drawn again to members ' attention , the old date continues to be valid . |
| 28 | Our analysis is still incomplete , however , as there is a deictic usage of come that is based not on participants ' actual location , but on their normative location or home-base . |
| 29 | The recent shortage at auction of outstanding examples of Victorian painting is put down to vendors ' unfounded fears that prices for even the best must have suffered . |
| 30 | Often this conclusion is backed up by scientists ' discoveries of fossilized dinosaur footprints . |