Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 2 | No other party has officially confirmed they will be contesting the election but the SDLP are expected to put up a candidate . |
| 3 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 4 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 5 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 6 | Finally , Mr Murray said that he had received numerous letters about the selection of the typeface ( Courier ) for all our future correspondence and due to the strength of feeling on this and other layout issues it has been decided to set up a Keyboard Operators panel to discuss the way forward . |
| 7 | Already , however , a committee of assembly members - among them only one Maronite — has been instructed to draw up a report , once the debates are over , on the changes in the covenant which a majority of parliamentarians will accept . |
| 8 | Apart from putting things up , you 're bound to carry out a variety of odd fixing and repair jobs around the house . |
| 9 | What makes it truly innovative is that CATI techniques have been used to carry out a survey that is very different in design from traditional surveys . |
| 10 | Simple commands have been used to set up a recording system , add data to it , change its structure and produce reports . |
| 11 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 12 | Where a clear case of mercy killing emerges in practice , the usual response is that ‘ legal and medical consciences are stretched to bring about a verdict of manslaughter by diminished responsibility ’ . |
| 13 | I have never been known to turn down a volunteer for any project . |
| 14 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to extend exemption from prescription charges to , and to make further provision for , persons in receipt of certain categories of benefit ; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60 ; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges . |
| 15 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for certain descriptions of shops in England and Wales to be open for trade on Sunday , subject to their being registered with the local authority ; to impose a general prohibition on the opening on Sunday of other shops , extending this prohibition to certain business premises which on week-days are open for the service of customers ; to provide protection for persons employed in or for the purposes of a shop which is , or is to be , registered for Sunday opening , where they have conscientious or other objections to working on Sunday ; to make consequential and other repeals in the Shops Act 1950 ; and for connected purposes . |
| 16 | The motion was : ’ That leave be given to bring in a Bill to end distinctions between the various types of educational institutions that cater for people over 18 years of age , and to provide for a genuinely comprehensive system of higher education under democratic control . ’ |
| 17 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 18 | Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire ! |
| 19 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 20 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 21 | Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set . |
| 22 | This work will be used to draw up a definition and typology of cases of organised abuse , and to identify significant practice and inter-agency issues . |
| 23 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 24 | This type of sequence could be used to build up a picture of a patient suffering from a specific condition . |
| 25 | The random walk model could then be used to build up a picture of the possible range of river patterns that might develop in such circumstances . |
| 26 | That can also be used to build up a market which then justifies a new plant or extension . ’ |
| 27 | If , of course , the room is quite big , all sorts of divider devices can be used to partition off a dining area , from screens of one sort or another to large indoor plants or trees . |
| 28 | This is the really important point , it is not simply a matter of getting the information onto film , it must then be used to bring about a change . |
| 29 | The collection could consist entirely of culinary kinds ; the health-giving species can lead to a very large collection , as four , five or six different plants may be needed to make up a prescription . |
| 30 | Some body , when it could no longer be persuaded to ski down a mountainside . |