Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of quartz-carbonate veins bearing copper , zinc , lead , silver and gold have been examined and massive volcanogenic sulphide mineralisation has been confirmed . |
| 2 | Although patients need to be protected from risk , we must be sure that the precautions taken are justified and that social support networks that have taken years to develop are not unnecessarily shattered . |
| 3 | These may not have constituted bases in the fullest sense nor been intended as permanent strategic installations , but Western statesmen have focussed on their potential and the capabilities they give the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | About one hundred and fifty wounded patients are treated and eighty major operations conducted each month . |
| 5 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | The organo-mercury treatments have been withdrawn but other effective materials are now available . |
| 7 | She had been diagnosed as dangerous five years before she first struck . |
| 8 | Although the returns would have been regarded as uneconomic two years ago , government advisers will pay out the second-lowest bill for underwriting in the history of public sell-offs . |
| 9 | Isolated pockets of alluvium and fluvioglacial material were encountered in various small valleys along the route which had been formed as glacial melt-water channels . |
| 10 | Also , I should say that erm the District Health Authorities now also have the right to initiate this , and of course they are more likely to be in contact with children who are under erm school age , and so it 's going to imply that the different services within the Local Authorities are going to have to work quite closely together on this one and what you should have , by the time a statement is prepared , is a very detailed profile of a particular child and one in which the parent has been consulted and various other people have been consulted . |
| 11 | If all mandatory fields have been completed and all completed fields contain valid entries , your request will be actioned . |
| 12 | that the premises in respect of which the grant was made have been completed in accordance with the plan thereof lodged with the board , or ( b ) that the premises have been completed and that such deviations from the said plan as exist are of minor importance and have not materially altered the character of the premises or the facilities for the supply of alcoholic liquor thereat . |
| 13 | On June 8 , 18 political organizations including the OLF had unsuccessfully petitioned the electoral commission for a postponement until irregularities and " discriminatory activities " had been resolved and all armed forces had withdrawn to their camps as agreed [ see pp. 38660 ; 38855 ] . |
| 14 | It has been reported that pancreatic acinar cells , stimulated by caerulein or cholecystokinin , release substantial amounts of platelet activating factor . |
| 15 | Over 550 boreholes have already been drilled and another 18 holes ( funded by a consortium of 13 oil companies ) were drilled in 1990 , concentrated in the area west of the Outer Hebrides Platform and east of the extensive basalts that cover the outer shelf and North Rockall Trough . |
| 16 | The contempt lay in the fact that the issues would have been prejudged and improper public pressure would have been exerted on Distillers to cause them to settle . |
| 17 | When SBUs reach the last phase of their life-cycle ( irrespective of whether a cost-leadership or differentiated-product strategy is being employed ) , there are still further options available which will need to be understood by the accountant in order to ensure that all options are considered and relevant financial profiles selected . |
| 18 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 19 | Steam days are held on the first Saturday of each month from April to October when as many as possible of the exhibits are operated and many additional attractions are provided . |
| 20 | THE new man in Steffi Graf 's life has been named as 24-year-old racing driver Michael Bartels . |
| 21 | It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns . |
| 22 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |
| 23 | Whether these are presented as interesting old stories or as moralistic and relevant fables depends on the attitude of the head teacher . |
| 24 | To the extent that a scientific speciality or discipline is bound together by the rules of an existing ‘ paradigm ’ defining the rules for ‘ puzzle-solving ’ with an existing ‘ normal science ’ , it has been argued that major scientific change often comes from outside the existing specialist group — not untypically through the ‘ migration ’ into the group of innovative outsiders . |
| 25 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 26 | It has been argued that all public employment cases should be dealt with by the same forum which could resolve all the issues raised . |
| 27 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 28 | It has been argued that this visual route to word recognition is an attribute of the right hemisphere ( Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Throughout this paper it has been argued that separating special education policy from mainstream education policy creates an artificial division between special and mainstream education . |
| 30 | Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer . |