Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people grow up frightened of what may come after this life because their minds have been filled since childhood with ideas of hell and damnation , judgment and punishment . |
| 2 | The skeleton , that of a woman in her twenties , appears to have been hidden in woodland near Chewton Mendip , Somerset , for years . |
| 3 | As a result of the changes Richard Prebble , who had been dismissed for disloyalty in November 1988 by David Lange , Palmer 's predecessor [ see p. 36294 ] , returned to the government . |
| 4 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 5 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 6 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 7 | In Brown v Rentokil Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 4 , the EAT ruled that an employee who had been dismissed in accordance with sickness absence rules when she was away from work because of pregnancy-related illness , was not discriminated against . |
| 8 | LeWitt 's use of geometrical structures dates to 1963 but this vital aspect of his work has rarely been examined in depth in Britain . |
| 9 | Since Labov first developed his quantitative methods , a very wide range of different speaker variables has been examined in relation to patterns of variation , and indeed these methods can be used wherever a speaker characteristic is capable of being expressed numerically . |
| 10 | The development of one south London suburb has been examined in detail by Professor H. J. Dyos in his classic work , Victorian Suburb : A Study of the Growth of Camberwell ( 1961 ) . |
| 11 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 12 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 13 | But if the damages are calculated without reference to income tax that will not be so . |
| 14 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 15 | Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false . |
| 16 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 17 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 18 | If the terms and conditions are altered as part of Newco 's rationalisation of the business , employees may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal . |
| 19 | The financial criteria are altered from time to time by regulations . |
| 20 | Ninety thousand tonnes of pesticides , solvents , metals and plastics are incinerated per year in burn zones just 100 miles off the British coast . |
| 21 | Her expositions to the inquiry are given on behalf of Ridgeway Consultants . |
| 22 | Undertakings are given from time to time in personal injury cases . |
| 23 | For that reason they are given in detail in Appendix 6 , The Effect of Synonym Storage Techniques on Search Times . |
| 24 | 1.5.3 such other fitting out works as the Tenant shall [ reasonably ] require ] The tenant 's works may of course be far more extensive and the above works are given by way of illustration only . |
| 25 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 26 | The government had been sustained in office from March 1977 to the autumn of 1978 by an agreement with the Liberals . |
| 27 | Secondly , paralinguistic features of the ‘ vocal effect ’ type are treated as part of intonation , and it is not made sufficiently clear how these are to be distinguished from prosodic features . |
| 28 | ( Under the SGA and the UCTA " trading " stamp redemption contracts are treated as sale of goods contracts . ) |
| 29 | These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period . |
| 30 | Many of the questions of communication and individual creativity which are explored through media and cybernetic models in the earlier novels are treated in Textermination with relation to the communication between a fictional text and its readers . |