Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although it is such a widespread condition , endometriosis is often overlooked because it can only be diagnosed by a minor surgical procedure called laparoscopy ( the insertion of an illuminated instrument through a small incision in the abdomen ) and many suffers do have problems getting their GPs to refer them to a specialist who can do the these for them . |
| 2 | It can only be altered by a separate legal document called a ‘ codicil ’ . |
| 3 | In addition , the legislature was to be altered from the existing bicameral system [ see pp. 38626-27 ] to a unicameral system , whereby the People 's Great Hural was to be directly elected by all citizens over 25 years old . |
| 4 | There was a fondness for the strict classical style , as seen in Moscow Kiev Station , affirming a desire to be recognized as a fully-fledged European power . |
| 5 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 6 | But as unsubsidised European supplies of processed milk products increasingly find it difficult to compete on world markets , they are likely to be redirected towards the European internal market . |
| 7 | Repairs can be undertaken by a good skilled boot repairer , but if you have difficulty finding someone locally you can send your boots or shoes to Shoecare at Preston . |
| 8 | More radical proposals include suggestions to allow all military procurement to be undertaken by an independent civilian agency and not by the military ; all future defence and foreign policy posture statements to be decided by Congress and not the military ; and regular Congressional debate on military priorities and their socio-economic consequences . |
| 9 | They tended to locate component supplies in lower-income countries to create two-way trade with Japan ; they did not replace the trade in finished products ( Kojima , 1978 ) .6 The Japanese moves can not be explained in the defensive product-cycle terms ; they were offensive in the sense that they were designed to establish positions that permitted new world-scale advantages to be created by subsequent expansion . |
| 10 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 11 | This can be explained by the recent deep subsidence in Cainozoic times . |
| 12 | This may be explained by the selective cholinomimetic action of cisapride on the smooth muscle in the mid and distal oesophagus whereas the striated muscle of the proximal oesophagus has not been affected . |
| 13 | This is surely to be explained by the paramount corporate and legal sense of identity which the clergy enjoyed and by the institutional roots which convocation had in the church 's own provincial councils ; the assembly of merchants , for example , was nothing like so well established or defined . |
| 14 | The exaggerated acid response to gastrin can be explained by the increased parietal cell mass present in duodenal ulcer patients . |
| 15 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 16 | The beginnings of modern thought about sleep and dreaming can be traced to the late eighteenth century , the time of the Enlightenment . |
| 17 | Despite the contemporary tone of much of Action for Cities , the programme 's heritage can be traced to the early 1960s studies which provided the basis for the 1965 Milner–Holland Report on housing and the 1967 Plowden Report on education , as a result of which general improvement areas and education priority areas were established . |
| 18 | It is hoped that this chapter will not be dismissed as an arid academic ground-clearing exercise , since it has important things to say about the most appropriate way to approach the subject of the book . |
| 19 | Annex 1 environmental impact assessments must be referred to the appropriate regulatory agency , such as the National Rivers Authority should it deal with water quality or , especially in this case , the local environmental health office of the city council in respect of water use . |
| 20 | The other type of assessment may comply with schedule 2 to the original environmental impact assessment directive from the European Community and it does not have to be referred to the appropriate regulatory agency . |
| 21 | Bills relating to Scotland alone may be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee unless ten members object . |
| 22 | At least 14 days notice shall be given of every Annual General Meeting and at least 14 days notice of every Extraordinary Meeting . |
| 23 | Taking into account the notion of support , the most satisfactory definition that can be given of the English bare infinitive in the present state of our knowledge is therefore as follows : the bare infinitive is a non-finite verb form that provides for the incidence of its event to a support through all the instants of time required to actualize the complete lexical content of this event . |
| 24 | So , for example , the practitioner has no guidance on the weight which will be given to an admissible ministerial statement that a situation is not covered by one clause but is covered by another that is in conflict with a construction based on textual examination of the legislation as a whole . |
| 25 | First , however , consideration must be given to the other major approach to assessment that informs current practice . |
| 26 | This list will be given to the existing four places of reference : the Victoria & Albert Museum ( London ) , the National Library of Scotland ( Edinburgh ) , the National Museum of Wales ( Cardiff ) , and Ulster Museum ( Belfast ) . |
| 27 | " Equivalent treatment " was to be given to the eastern German Länder and east Berlin . |
| 28 | In such cases , careful consideration should be given to the appropriate internal review . |
| 29 | In such cases , careful consideration should be given to the appropriate internal review . |
| 30 | In such cases , careful consideration should be given to the appropriate internal review . |