Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Now detectives in the Irish Republic are reported as saying that members of the gang that kidnapped Nairac , have offered to help them find his body in return for immunity from prosecution .
2 The DOE has been interpreted as showing that expectancies can act as effective cues in the control of choice responding ( e.g. Peterson and Trapold 1980 ) .
3 They question the voluntary nature of his confession and say rapes and murders by their forces are isolated and treated as crimes when detected .
4 The vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton , has been arrested and questioned after Customs intercepted alleged pornographic material .
5 In addition , both unemployment benefit and income support , under certain circumstances , can be withdrawn or suspended if claimants fail to comply with the range of new procedures aimed at policing their behaviour ; for instance , if they fail to attend counselling or Restart ( introduced in 1986 ) interviews with Employment Service Officers or turn down ‘ positive offers ’ of help from the Restart menu , such as employment or a training programme .
6 If the sewage disposal works is to be situated off-site , a suitable site must be located and purchased and easements obtained from any owners whose land the sewer crosses .
7 Once the information is stored in the computer the tablet can be used as an editing tool allowing colour to be added or changed and shapes to be modified .
8 Once the information is stored in the computer the tablet can be used as an editing tool allowing colour to be added or changed and shapes to be modified .
9 With the increased number of market-makers after Big Bang it would be expected that spreads and commissions would fall ,
10 Organisational and clinical guidelines embedded in the Islington prompting system may be varied and developed as standards of good practice evolve or as new resources become available locally .
11 As a source of power , it can only be claimed and used if others recognise and accept it as a source of power .
12 At the micro level , described by Lind , a similar mixture of sometimes intentional , but more often automatic , focusing enables certain elements of the sensory mix to be selected and retained whilst others are excluded .
13 The success of the traded option is due to the existence of a regulated secondary market in which contracts may be bought and sold and positions opened and closed without the need to enter the securities market .
14 These broader , qualitative questions must be raised and examined as courses for unemployed people continue to proliferate .
15 To be effective therefore a framework must be set up which will allow expense to be apportioned and identified and variations detected .
16 It simply set out some crude ideas on how public spending could be reduced and suggested that ministers should have six months to come up with more refined views .
17 Funds will then need to be found or diverted and teachers trained or retrained in their understanding of community education .
18 It is often assumed that techniques must be learned and practised before problems are mentioned .
19 Pupils can be encouraged or discouraged as writers by what the teacher does with their writing , and the way you receive written work and respond to it powerfully affects the work the pupils do next time .
20 At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made .
21 It should be noted however , that this advice is not to be taken as suggesting that pupils must study these four Short Courses throughout S3/4 .
22 Single women had been trained and commissioned as officers from 1880 when colleges for both sexes had been established .
23 A commission financed by UNICEF arrived in the eastern Amazonian jungle region of Madre de Dios on Aug. 21 to investigate reports that children were either being killed or were dying while working as slaves in gold mines , in saw mills and on ranches , and that their bodies were subsequently being dumped in mass graves .
24 Where private care is offered by private employment agencies , central control is already being exerted under the Employment Agencies Act but local authorities do need to monitor the performance of whatever scheme is being operated and ensure that gaps in provision are identified and filled .
25 Frequently , the consequences are misdiagnosed and treated as causes but this is no more justified than asking an educational psychologist to treat the disturbed thought processes of someone in pain from acute gout .
26 Traditionally , a low ratio is interpreted as indicating that investors as a whole expect rather low levels of future earnings or that those earnings are subject to a high level of risk .
27 The information required or displayed depends on the option and this part of the page is reconstructed and displayed when options are selected ,
28 The argument is that serious sexual assaults , and the attitude of many men towards them , derive from a male-dominated approach to sexuality in which aggressive sexual behaviour by males is praised or condoned whilst women are associated with passivity .
29 Some have adopted a system of routine visiting of all the old people on their lists in order to check that health is maintained and to ensure that diseases and disabilities are tackled at the onset .
30 As serious partnership activities are put into practice , there is a growing need for an annual programme and audit of activity , so that the quality of experience offered to students each year is maintained as planning and organisations are renewed .
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