Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 2 | It seems , however , that your leitmotiv is that no doctor could be expected to carry out the multifacetted role that doctors ‘ helping the police with their enquiries ’ have to perform , that they can not do so with their usual amount of skill , and that they can not carry out some of the more sensitive tasks without bias or being influenced by their paymasters — the police . |
| 3 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 4 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 5 | And just as well : because , however persuasive the case for the public ownership of particular industries , experience since 1945 can hardly be said to bear out the general case , the proposition that public ownership is the necessary precursor to the realisation of the rights of man . |
| 6 | I hope that the Minister will listen carefully to the call from the Opposition and ensure that when privatisation takes place , the golden opportunity will not be missed to set up the Scottish bus passenger consultative committee , which , we hope , will examine customers ' complaints and safeguard their interests . |
| 7 | The action research of the Brunel school can be used to draw out the key advantages of the controlled authority . |
| 8 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 9 | The legislation will be used to back up the federal government 's high court case , due to be heard at the end of May , which is seeking a permanent injunction against the power project . |
| 10 | Discussion of the number of guesses recorded can be used to point out the different kinds of letter order in words . |
| 11 | For dry lining , the plasterboards used are the type with tapered edges which allow a reinforcing tape and filler to be used to finish off the joint flush with the board surface . |
| 12 | Maybe they could be used to build up the spiritual life . |
| 13 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 14 | My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away . |
| 15 | Ca n't be bothered to get out the fucking house can you ? |
| 16 | Repayment could be timed to smooth out the boom-slump cycle which was widely expected to follow the war . |
| 17 | Your spine runs down the centre of the body , so the corresponding foot reflex will be found running down the inside edge of both feet . |
| 18 | In appropriate cases a commissioner from the Requesting State might be appointed to carry out the special method or procedure requested , e.g. , to overcome the difficulty which a civil law State may have in satisfying a Request from a common law State to take evidence under cross examination , because no judge or local lawyer in the requested State had any experience in that field . |
| 19 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
| 20 | Nor , says Mr Imai , should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony . |
| 21 | Stand-by or supply teachers are needed if community language teachers are to be released to carry out the necessary development work . |
| 22 | Having established the position of the downpipe , some mathematics will be required to work out the correct height to fix the brackets . |