Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data in Table 7 can be rearranged so as to rank universities in order of the proportion of Scottish theses to theses as a whole , and develop what might be called a ‘ Parochiality Index ’ . |
| 2 | Yesterday Judge William Hannah jailed 37-year-old Parvis Yousefi for 18 months and recommended he should be deported from Britain . |
| 3 | She is looking for work and thinks she may be forced to move to London in search of a job . |
| 4 | The force within can also be manipulated through … Dieting , in which you are discouraged from eating meat because it provokes unhelpful vibrations and produces what might be called static interference in meditation . |
| 5 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 6 | Officials laugh ruefully at the miserable performance of collective farming , and suggest it may be phased out . |
| 7 | The officers blame the private catering company for the standard of food and say they should be sacked . |
| 8 | The rules of court contain a table which lists the various applications which may be made under the Act and specifies who must be named as a respondent ( FPCR , Sched 2 ; FPR , Appendix 3 ) . |
| 9 | For any economic system to work and survive it must be considered legitimate . |
| 10 | Local authorities were obliged to carry out overcrowding surveys ; to prosecute to enforce the standard ; and to define what might be regarded as ‘ suitable alternative accommodation ’ . |
| 11 | If not , the defendant driver can be seen later and told he will be reported . |
| 12 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | Hodge and those around him believed Syngman Rhee should be encouraged and believed he could be controlled ; they were later to regret having aided Rhee 's ambitions to the extent that they had done when they found themselves exposed to Rhee 's mordant censure . |
| 14 | They were not the sort you could put out in a black bin bag and hope they would be gone in the morning . |
| 15 | We are pleased offer our detailed views below and hope they will be taken into account before the Government finalises its procedures for the implementation of the EC Directive . |
| 16 | This is a key area where professional accountants have already begun to experiment — the 1991 environmental accounts of the Dutch company BSO/Origin , for instance , are reproduced and show what can be done with a bit of imagination and lateral thinking . |
| 17 | The manager has to be clear about the purpose of improvement and will use knowledge and support which can be brought from other places into the field which he or she can directly manage . |
| 18 | HOOBERMAN is appalled by such an attitude and says something must be done to stop the ‘ sanitisation ’ of literature . |
| 19 | Gardiner denies he stole the cash and says it should be returned to him . |
| 20 | Together with the summons , the defendant receives a form for admission , defence and counterclaim which must be returned to the court within 14 days of service . |
| 21 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 22 | George elected himself to go and see what could be done in the way of sample jars and presently returned with gifts from the Chinese cook in the dome car , in the shape of four rinsed-out plastic tomato-sauce bottles rescued from the rubbish bin . |
| 23 | Please would you investigate and see what can be done about the above . |
| 24 | Commenting on the changes , a BR spokeswoman said : ‘ Darlington was a forerunner of similar schemes throughout the country and showed what could be achieved when local authorities got together with British Rail . ’ |
| 25 | He based the latter on his research into Victorian and Edwardian ‘ salon ’ music and showed what can be done by looking into such highways and byways of music when a particular period atmosphere is needed . |
| 26 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 27 | Very nice to be able to step out of used underwear and know it would be laundered and returned to its drawer pressed and scented , even better never to have to worry about clearing a table or washing up , but nevertheless there was something vaguely disconcerting about maids who went silently , sneakily about their duties under her very nose . |
| 28 | Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task . |
| 29 | So tomorrow would have to do , and the obvious move now was to see Mrs McDougall myself and get what might be called hard evidence from her . |
| 30 | Every Sunday we went to Mass and prayed you 'd be released . |