Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 4 | The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% . |
| 5 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 6 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 7 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 8 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 9 | Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out . |
| 10 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 11 | As the terms accountability and democracy were redefined in the poll tax debates , so the concepts of ‘ justice ’ and ‘ active citizenship ’ have been redefined in the debates about public services . |
| 12 | DIRE warnings are given of the consequences of taking the necessary measures to make cars more environment-friendly . |
| 13 | Details of these requirements are given in the tables of Degree Course Requirements on the following pages . |
| 14 | Where the circumstances are that a plaintiff ( such as a mail order company ) wishes to bring separate proceedings in one county court against a great number of defendants , provision is made for a combined request and particulars of claims by the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Directions made on 1 March 1979 and 17 March 1987 setting out full instructions ; these are given in the notes under Ord 3 , r 3 in The County Court Practice . |
| 15 | The problems encountered when constructing such drawings are given in the examples of the bridal head-dress painting , illustrated . |
| 16 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 17 | The two probability distributions of B are given by the squares of moduli of two such wavefunctions . |
| 18 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 19 | For example , we are treated to the results of a 10-year study of the foraging activity of a laboratory colony of Atta , information on the biology of the immense carpenter ant genus Camponotus and unique insights into the alkaloidal pharmacopoeia of fire ants . |
| 20 | He had been posted to the police in Asyut and had hated his time there . |
| 21 | Nonetheless cries of ‘ Kill them [ the Communists ] ’ have been heard on the fringes of the Leipzig demonstrations as protesters stormed the offices of the hated secret police . |
| 22 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
| 23 | All of the many degree courses offered at the University of Edinburgh are listed in the tables of the section ‘ Degree Course Requirements ’ . |
| 24 | Where O or S passes are listed in the requirements for entry to a particular faculty or to a specific course , these must normally be at grades 1 , 2 or 3 for S grade , or grade C or better ( 7 or better from 1994 ) for O/GCSE . |
| 25 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 26 | Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate . |
| 27 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
| 28 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 29 | As with all claims made by competing groups for the objective nature of their own discourse , those made by the Royal Society are tainted by the contingencies of the world in which they were made . |
| 30 | They may however have achieved a realization of theoretical proposals : but we can not be certain about that until further research has been undertaken into the workings of the Household . |