Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ideally , opioid dependent prisoners in custody should be stabilised with the right dose .
2 This might well be stabilised as the main course and result in the construction of a new delta segment , until the gradient advantage of the distributaries over it was nullified by the extent of the segment .
3 The value of praise in providing encouragement has to be blended with the instructional benefit that criticism can bring to the pupil .
4 For more on how these roles can be blended into a successful group , see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 .
5 On Feb. 5 , 1991 , Secretary of State for Defence King announced that the United States nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch was to be closed and that the US F-111 bombers would be withdrawn from the Upper Heyford and Lakenheath bases [ see also p. 37704 ] .
6 Cash can be withdrawn from the usual Midland Bank , NatWest , and TSB machines .
7 I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice .
8 In an address to the Lithuanian Supreme Council ( parliament ) on Feb. 16 to mark the anniversary of Lithuanian Independence Day in 1918 , President Vytautas Landsbergis made a demand for former Soviet armed forces to be withdrawn from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad oblast ( region ) .
9 Russia had previously insisted that its troops could not be withdrawn from the Baltic states before 1997-99 because of the difficulties of housing returning servicemen .
10 If no more than the contents of medium silt , fine silt or clay are required , aliquots may be withdrawn after the appropriate time intervals and the relative abundance calculated from differences in weights of suspension in each .
11 It was thought that many of the problems of criterion-referencing would be highlighted by the particular topics selected .
12 Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education .
13 These may be provoked by the lowered self esteem that many suffer as a result of teasing and criticism by peers , parents , and teachers .
14 Overall sound quality is good , without the dulling and squashing side effects that some products can produce ; pumping can be provoked in the hard ratio mode by extreme settings , but that 's only to be expected .
15 In addition , involvement of major neurovascular structures and bone can also be diagnosed with a high degree of accuracy .
16 Although a rare complication of minor surgery , the toxic shock syndrome may be diagnosed by the classical presentation of severe diarrhoea , rapid progression to a shock-like state , and development of a fine macular rash within hours of the surgical procedure .
17 The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development .
18 Thus , for example , all versions of positivism which rely upon an exhaustive sources thesis might be refuted by the undoubted circumstance that criminal law incorporates and generates moral standards .
19 Recommended Assessment Procedures may be altered with the prior approval of the Council .
20 The Directors may alter the Scheme with the prior approval of the Inland Revenue , but the basic structure ( and in particular the limitations on the number of shares which may be issued under the Scheme ) can not be altered without the prior sanction of the Company in general meeting .
21 I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war .
22 Once the tables have been calculated , however , you find that the insurance rates have changed , petrol has gone down and tax thresholds are due to be altered in the coming budget .
23 Banana power can be altered in the pre-match menu , along with team colours , match length etc .
24 What can be altered in the short term is the cost of employing new workers , and this can be achieved either by forcing down wages , or by reducing the employer 's costs .
25 Variation was entirely random , and each population evolved in response to purely local environmental pressures , which could be altered in an unpredictable way by migration or geological changes .
26 Thus output might be altered by a technological breakthrough , or by changes in the structure of taxation which affected the choice between work and leisure , or by changes in other real variables , but should not be affected by a change in nominal spending : such changes should affect the price at which the available output is sold and not the quantity of output itself .
27 Research indicates that behaviour may be altered by the very fact that it is being monitored .
28 If there is a steady downward drift in the average temperature in the area , a drift that persists over centuries , successive generations of animals will be propelled by a steady selection ‘ pressure ’ in the direction , say , of growing longer coats of hair .
29 The boxes both have six SIMM slots and can be incremented to a maximum 96Mb. +1 408 432–0292
30 The trouble with nuclear power is that its ‘ costs ’ always have the potential to go well beyond the point where they can be factored into an environmental bill .
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