Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Gillis has shown from a study of the London Foundling Hospital that higher servants , such as ladies ' maids , seem to have been particularly vulnerable which may be explained by the contradictions they experienced in attempting to combine customs of courtship and marriage appropriate to women of their class backgrounds with the standards of conduct expected by their employers . |
| 2 | The Stir may be traced to the streams which flow from the western slopes of the Dwarf fortress of Karak Kadrin . |
| 3 | Should such a test be used in the course of teaching , low scores would not enable the teacher to decide what tasks can reasonably be given to the pupils who obtain them nor to decide what experiences may be suitable to forward their development . |
| 4 | ( Within each type , hierarchies may be distinguished by the elements they contain . ) |
| 5 | He has run a quiet , determined campaign for a lasting memorial to be erected to the men who died . |
| 6 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 7 | Individual role relationships will tend to be normalized in the calculations which organization agencies make and so management control will be expressed far more in terms of the accountability of individuals . |
| 8 | Just as the members of the harmonic series come at closer and closer intervals as the series ascends , so will the notes of a well-sounding chord be arranged with the notes which make up the top half closer together than those of the bottom half , and a clear octave should be left at the extreme bottom of the chord . |
| 9 | Boro full back and fly half Ian Bircham has landed a job in Italy so his appearances will be limited to the weekends he is home . |
| 10 | I have argued that if we allow our concept of special educational provision , and hence of the support teacher 's role , to be limited to the ‘ individual ’ approach then the danger is that , not only will our own sights be limited in the measures we adopt to meet special educational needs , but our work may act as a substitute for more fundamental changes that are required . |
| 11 | How each of these groups was affected will be considered in the chapters which follow . |
| 12 | As is very much the fashion these days , the contract could be protested by the losers who in this case are believed to be Control Data Systems and its subcontractors . |
| 13 | Scots , in particular , should rejoice over the disbandment of a regiment , praying that at last their sons ' names need not be added to the memorials which stand in every town , village and glen across the country as mute testament to the suffering and sorrow of the past . |
| 14 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 15 | Software for most econometric analyses that should be included in the packages which the Centre is producing is already available from academic sources . |
| 16 | The bodies supervised by such boards are likely to be dominated by the bureaucrats who run them , rather than nominees who supervise them , particularly since they will be able to hide behind all the defences of professional expertise with organizations which are larger than almost all the departments within individual local governments with which councillors will be familiar . |
| 17 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 18 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |
| 19 | If time permitted , separate releases might also be written on the firms which had already agreed to go to Tadchester . |
| 20 | Some firms that make TV sets like the idea of the tree and branch system because it means that profitable electronics must be built into the receivers which they sell . |
| 21 | There is yet no evidence of permanent production centres in early Anglo-Saxon England , and resort must be made to the objects themselves to determine the structure of the industry . |
| 22 | The complaints must be made to the police themselves in the first instance and all subsequent investigations are undertaken by police officers . |
| 23 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 24 | It has a strong emphasis on specific objectives ( related to a number of vocational choices to be made by the students themselves ) , to cross-curricular skills and to profile-reporting on progress . |
| 25 | Letting someone else decide — most often manifest in people applying for a wide range of jobs perhaps with little in , because they are unable to decide which is most appropriate for them and hoping that somehow the right choice will be made by the employers themselves . |
| 26 | We are involved in an exercise of partnership through sharing know-how with those republics in a wide variety of different areas , but any changes must necessarily be made by the republics themselves . |
| 27 | Ultimately the origins of the division within the population in Dunrossness lie in the interaction between Shetland , ‘ the oil ’ , and national or international political/economic processes : for the purposes of this paper , however , I will be looking at the factors which are in a sense ‘ internal ’ to Shetland in general , and Dunrossness in particular . |
| 28 | ‘ Obviously we will be looking at the sports which proved so popular last time , but we will also be looking to see if there is scope for more specialised activities such as water sports and outdoor pursuits . ’ |
| 29 | Radical views like this seem unlikely ever to be accepted by the cardinals who dictate the dominant conservative teaching . |
| 30 | During a visit to Moscow on Feb. 11-12 by Kohl and Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union declared that " the unity of the German nation must be decided by the Germans themselves " . |