Example sentences of "be [verb] and [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rusted hooks hung from antiquated iron girders above him , the windows had long since been vandalized and the faded walls were daubed with obscene graffiti . |
| 2 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 3 | If the wording of a trust has been omitted and the other provisions accord with what ought to have been written , by analogy with institution as heir and with legacies a trust will be understood to be duly given and insufficiently expressed in writing . |
| 4 | As in the use of any chart of this type , parents must not remove stickers once they have been earned and no black marks should be given for wet beds . |
| 5 | A corporation tax deduction will be available to Newco for contributions made to a non-qualifying employee trust provided that : ( a ) the contributions are regular and of a revenue nature ; ( b ) the contributions are voluntary ( so as not to constitute annual payments within s337(2) ( b ) TA 1988 ) ; ( c ) the class of beneficiaries under the trust is confined to employees of the settlor company , so there will need to be multiple settlors if all the employees in a group of companies are to benefit and the various companies in the group that are contributing wish to ensure corporation tax deductions ; and ( d ) the companies themselves are entirely excluded from benefiting under the terms of the trust . |
| 6 | Romania and Serbia had been subdued and the Central Powers now had direct access to their allies Bulgaria and Turkey . |
| 7 | Their reasoning — that ‘ when all safeguards are respected and the best interests of the patient are taken into account , it is certainly not murder ’ — parallels the apparent logic behind the Soviet cleansing of antisocialist elements , the Indian practice of murder/suicide of widows , and the infanticide that I observed among the Tsamai in south-west Ethiopia . |
| 8 | More historical information on the breweries has been added and the tasting panels have once more been out and about finalising their tasting notes . |
| 9 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 10 | At the first review date the completion dates are re-estimated and the new dates entered on the planned time axis in line with the review date on the elapsed time axis . |
| 11 | At the first review date the completion dates are re-estimated and the new dates entered on the planned time axis in line with the review date on the elapsed time axis . |
| 12 | The Dearing Committee 's recommendations had been accepted and the new Companies Act saw the creation of the independent Financial Reporting Council with its own Review Panel . |
| 13 | It may be harder to keep seeing change as ‘ challenge ’ rather than ‘ threat ’ when the going gets tough , but whether you can or not may say more about the way difficulties are met and the emotional repercussions they generate than about their very existence . |
| 14 | A recent scrutiny by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission commented favourably on the changes that have already been wrought and the further developments that are under way . |
| 15 | Not just in England but throughout the world about taking the technology we 're developing and the branded services and deploying them on their systems . |
| 16 | This yard was just a kind of higgledy-piggledy yard with a with a a wall along there where you 're standing and a few lean-tos . |
| 17 | ( 1976 ) have given expressions for the stiffness tensors for various fibre orientations using a different formalism from ours in which orientation functions and are used and the various integrals in sines and cosines expressed in terms of these . |
| 18 | It is only when the present position has been assessed and the future intentions stated that members of the organisation can effectively plan towards the achievement of purposeful goal-directed activity . |
| 19 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |
| 20 | Their days of cruelty are numbered and the fewer days before fox hunting is banned the better . |
| 21 | Here , the measures were instituted in 1982 and by 1984 c. 26 000 ha of desert had been restored and the shifting dunes fixed . |
| 22 | The failure of such tensions to overturn or revolutionize the social structure has rested in the way in which individuals have been socialized and the fundamental norms according to which the society operates . |
| 23 | Printing had not yet been invented and the handwritten copies had a limited circulation . |
| 24 | After this they have little to do that is essential until the models are proved and the experimental drawings must be modified and converted into production drawings . |
| 25 | Occupation troops would be withdrawn and the Korean police force streamlined . |
| 26 | If team nursing is the pattern , then this has to be explained and the other members of the team for that shift can introduce themselves as and when necessary . |
| 27 | These files need to be initialised and the unused records marked as empty . |
| 28 | These files need to be initialised and the unused records marked as empty . |
| 29 | Rather , the museum wants an aid campaign to be organised and an international Friends of the Hermitage organisation to be set up . |
| 30 | The essence of the public choice problem is that only a single decision can be made and the conflicting preferences have to be reconciled . |