Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are demanding that British , US , and other foreign troops be withdrawn from the Gulf immediately and that a peaceful solution be sought to the crisis . |
| 2 | History lovers will be fascinated by the excavations currently taking place on the south of the island at Akrotiri — here much of the original Minoan city , dating back 3,350 years has been unearthed , revealing three storey houses , utensils and beautiful frescoes , preserved by the volcanic ash that covered the city . |
| 3 | For centuries the argument continued without any real evidence on either side , but in 1803 the British chemist and physicist , John Dalton , pointed out that the fact that chemical compounds always combined in certain proportions could be explained by the grouping together of atoms to form units called molecules . |
| 4 | Pan-pipes ( see SB 27 ) ; when played by street-musicians they would often be fastened round the neck so as to leave the hands free to beat a drum or play some other percussion instrument . |
| 5 | Or do the words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown either if they have not behaved themselves ( e.g. been convicted of crime ) or on an Address of both Houses ? |
| 6 | Do these words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown only upon an Address of both Houses ( with a direction to the Houses that they are not to present an Address unless the judge has misbehaved himself ) ? |
| 7 | Two fundamental points have to be grasped about the Code : ( 1 ) It is not a legal document , and points of interpretation are to be referred to the Panel rather than legal advisers ( although the offer document itself will be a legal document and expert legal advice will be needed on that and other related matters ) . |
| 8 | It should be explained that sale opportunities should be referred to the Network only when it is certain that they have an international implication . |
| 9 | If the letting agent is not managing the flat , the tenant 's deposit should be given to the owner immediately . |
| 10 | Replies can be given through the column only . |
| 11 | It was held that relief would be given against the defendant even though he was a third party . |
| 12 | The messages from her brain to turn and walk away seemed to take so long reaching their destination , she thought she might be riveted to the ground forever . |
| 13 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 14 | But the seven fifteenths and tenths and the three and two-thirds subsidies granted from 1566 to 1581 could only be justified by the threat rather than the reality of war . |
| 15 | For instance , the words ‘ inshore fishing is n't an easy life ’ might add something which can not be gathered from the pictures alone . |
| 16 | Gaiety and laughter can be heard in the towns late into the night , and shopkeepers are beaming . |
| 17 | When the bed collapsed under us and the girl 's shrieks could be heard in the taproom below , the landlord came up again shouting abuse through the door , but I ignored him . |
| 18 | At that point , she broke down into laughter ; low , wild laughter , that could be heard in the rooms above . |
| 19 | United are already without Bryan Robson and Paul Parker , and they will be joined on the sidelines tomorrow night by Paul Ince . |
| 20 | These important rights mean that the safety representatives must be consulted by the employer well before action is taken and when combined with the existing functions of safety representatives , they provide extensive rights to organize around health and safety at the workplace . |
| 21 | But the images of beauty may be lost and forgotten and a mnemonic is needed so that they can be recalled to the mind easily . |
| 22 | And er he was rubbing the coal off his back and was stripped there , we used to be stripped to the waist then . |
| 23 | If the child normally manages only half a fish finger and a teaspoon of potato for lunch then this is all that should be placed on the plate so that the child can be encouraged to clear the plate . |
| 24 | If his play is not good enough he will be placed on the bench just like the rest of us . |
| 25 | How could the passengers be placed in the circle so that all the Turks would be thrown overboard and all the Christians saved ? |
| 26 | More importantly , however , the model alone is not sufficient , for it must be placed in the context both of the individual social work team and of the local authority department as a whole ( Hill , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | This further expansion gave greater insight into the information requirements of the system ( eg for the activity Tender for services , information about tender procedures , potential contractors , standards required , etc could be relevant ) , and could be checked against the information actually available in practice , an approach that is examined further in Chapter 11 . |
| 28 | Expectancy seems to be communicated to the subject immediately on first contact with the experimenter . |
| 29 | Each of these , or examples like them , will be treated in the pages below , together with more familiar examples of pragmatic implication . |
| 30 | In a nutshell they wanted a dedicated , self-sufficient unit which would allow sufferers to be treated in the town rather than have them , and their families , shunted 30 miles up and down the A1 to Newcastle 's RVI . |