Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [modal v] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | Hand-reared birds can be put back in the nest once they can feed themselves , but if they 've become imprinted on a human , they may not respond properly to the other birds and the parents may reject them . |
2 | Panic announced on Oct. 15 that joint working groups would be set up to deal with human rights violations , the lifting of discriminatory laws , media freedom and education . |
3 | Tom King , then Local Government Minister , announced that no further geological investigations would be carried out in any of the selected areas . |
4 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
5 | By taking volumes and weights into account , definite formulae could be fixed on , beginning with water as H 2 O. |
6 | LEGISLATION making the fitting of smoke alarms compulsory in all new Scottish houses will be brought in as soon as possible , the Government pledged last night . |
7 | In the autumn of 1904 he was still rejecting the mild suggestion from Sviatopolk-Mirsky , very much along the lines of Loris-Melikov 's proposals of 1881 , that representatives of public institutions should be co-opted on to the State Council . |
8 | The effects of environments of different symmetry upon the terms for different ions can be worked out using group theory . |
9 | But FIFA threatened that if he was not forced to back down , all five French clubs would be thrown out of next week 's European competitions , the national team would be barred from the 1994 World Cup finals and that France would no longer be able to host the 1998 finals . |
10 | Will the Minister assure the House that empty houses will be handed over to local councils or housing associations for rent either to redundant service men or to others ? |
11 | The government last year announced that those who forget to flush public toilets will be fined up to 500 U S dollars . |
12 | Restricting co-operative ventures to R&D alone , or to R&D and joint production but not joint marketing , makes sense whenever these different activities can be carried out independently without much loss of efficiency . |
13 | If the job is a newly created one then clear guidelines should be drawn up of what the candidate will be expected to do , what qualifications , skills , abilities and personal qualities they will need . |
14 | Consequently , some nodal units should be set up to provide a supporting role through downstream activities such as analysis , whilst others act as upstream support by providing a library-type function , in which data relevant to the background of the design , and company practices , reside . |
15 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
16 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
17 | Narrative words can be passed over fairly quickly by declamation , which can vary between two extremes . |
18 | One reason for the ubiquity of Dataease may be the ease with which well presented and reliable Databases can be set up . |
19 | Similarly the moral crusaders , newspaper proprietors and muck-raking journalists should be called off . |
20 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
21 | Law areas can be raised by packing out with small pieces of wood behind the batten , and high areas can be planed down . |
22 | Recommendations have been made ( Chavalit Mangkalaviraj , personal communication ) that information given to travellers and epidemiological data should be exchanged internationally and that study tours for health staff in interested countries should be set up . |
23 | Detailed evaluations can be carried out on this mock-up before the real system is constructed . |
24 | This year eight tons of prime beef , four tons of fresh salmon and four tons of fresh strawberries will be gobbled up . |
25 | According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously . |
26 | According to Informix , this more than triples performance because different transactions can be carried out on different processors simultaneously . |
27 | If this is so , Admiral Howe 's advisers say , foreign judges will be brought in . |
28 | The purchaser will need to remember that a minimum delay of between 14 and 21 clear days may be needed in between exchange and completion if either an ordinary resolution or special resolution of shareholders is needed . |
29 | Thousands of British workers would be forced on to the dole . |
30 | But one idea going around is that French troops might be mixed in with brigades from Britain or other NATO countries on a multinational — ie , non-NATO — basis . |