Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Ten Fridays and four half days are given for private members ' motions . |
| 2 | Moreover , they are regarded as valuable collectors ' items , not toys . |
| 3 | She is famous for berating and lecturing people , ministers , civil servants , TUC delegations , and the House of Commons ; ‘ rubbish ’ or ‘ what mean ? ’ and other rude comments are annotated to civil servants ' papers . |
| 4 | For example , in the past two years many applications have been made against local authorities ' handling of assessment and service delivery for children with special educational needs . |
| 5 | Financing such payments ( which frequently would take the form of annuity payments by the firm out of its profits or an annuity contract purchased by the firm ) was never easy and reliance had to be placed on incoming partners ' immediate capital contributions . |
| 6 | Indeed , following on from the government 's Next Steps agencies ( see below ) , for many government executive operations outturn information in departmental reports will , in future , be supplemented by individual agencies ' annual reports to Parliament . |
| 7 | Hewitt ( 1989 ) , for example , accepts that the speech of black adolescents shows influences from Creole but asserts that the same influences can be seen in white adolescents ' English in certain areas : the English of many black youngsters also itself displayed evidence of Creole influence beyond those stretches that might be plainly treated as switches . |
| 8 | How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ? |
| 9 | Before World War II and in the immediate post-war period industry-wide collective agreements continued to be negotiated between individual employers ' associations and trade unions with little intervention from their respective central organisations . |
| 10 | It was expected that these service engineers would have sufficient parts from their own stocks to do simple repairs , and the theory was that major parts could be provided from Argent Distributors ' warehouse within 48 hours . |
| 11 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 12 | September that , in calculating the transfer of funds from local authorities to the funding councils in recognition of their new responsibilities , the resources attributable to those courses for which the LEAs will continue to be responsible will be left within local authorities ' standard spending assessments . |
| 13 | Each side will probably already be covered under appropriate employers ' , occupiers ' and public liability policies , and , since the liability to be covered in each side 's case is the same type , the shift from one side to the other will not result in an overall increase of premiums . |
| 14 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |
| 15 | ( b ) Pay over to the Inland Revenue each month all amounts that should have been deducted from uncertified sub-contractors ' payments . |
| 16 | Cubs and even foetuses cut from the bodies of pregnant females were added to individual hunters ' totals . |
| 17 | In the eventual settlement , fine promises were made about equivalent facilities ' becoming available at Mile End Hospital . |
| 18 | Police were called to Highsted Girls ' Grammar School at Sittingbourne , Kent . |
| 19 | Some banks were encouraged by industrialised countries ' governments to provide competitive financial packages to overseas buyers in order to win export contracts for their depressed manufacturing industries . |
| 20 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
| 21 | Some elderly subjects were recruited from senior citizens ' homes or choirs . |
| 22 | Any change would , however , be resisted by heavyweight landlords , whose valuations are enhanced by overseas investors ' predilection for a secure purchase . |
| 23 | As well as its North European operation ( covering Ireland , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Sweden , Iceland , Belgium , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Israel ) , which is run by Interactive Systems ' former European boss , Doug Miller , out of Interactive 's old UK offices in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , SunSoft has now opened offices in ( Grasbrunn ) Munich and Velizy-Villacoublay ( Paris ) , though both are located within the parent 's premises . |
| 24 | In principle , therefore , it is different from direct investment : while the latter is associated with multi-national corporations ' overseas plants and enterprises , portfolio investment relates to the international borrowing , lending and investment of the City . |
| 25 | The Charities Act 1960 , section 45 , says ‘ charity ’ means any institution , corporate or not , which is established for charitable purposes ' , a somewhat tautologous and unhelpful non-definition . |
| 26 | Lapper had certainly been guilty of conceit ( a wrought iron gate had been ordered with senior managers ' initials worked into it ) , but the sentence was interpreted as a politically motivated attack on wastrel public corporations , and was widely felt to be unjust . |
| 27 | A second thermos was passed with hot camels ' milk , yellow with saffron and heavily sweet . |