Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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| 4 | I know of no authority for the proposition that an ordinary crime committed in the House of Commons would be withdrawn from the ordinary course of criminal justice . |
| 5 | 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Lithuanian Independence Day in 1918 , President Vytautas Landsbergis made a demand for former Soviet armed forces to be withdrawn from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad oblast ( region ) . |
| 6 | If no more than the contents of medium silt , fine silt or clay are required , aliquots may be withdrawn after the appropriate time intervals and the relative abundance calculated from differences in weights of suspension in each . |
| 7 | These may be provoked by the lowered self esteem that many suffer as a result of teasing and criticism by peers , parents , and teachers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Recommended Assessment Procedures may be altered with the prior approval of the Council . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Banana power can be altered in the pre-match menu , along with team colours , match length etc . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Research indicates that behaviour may be altered by the very fact that it is being monitored . |
| 17 | At this time he was still a rank-and-file militant , but quickly , as the 1820s moved along , he came to be recognized as the outstanding trade-union leader in Lancashire in the textile industry . |
| 18 | Already in 1913 , as the Independent observed , ‘ gray hair has come to be recognized as the unforgivable witness of industrial imbecility . ’ |
| 19 | According to Indian reports Pakistan had objected to India 's demand that the Saltoro Range , running from NJ 9842 to the Shaksgam region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir ceded to China , be recognized as the actual line of control . |
| 20 | If this notion of looking ahead in order to see behind is understood temporally , it can be recognized as the constitutive structure of narrative itself , which Genette describes as a series of ‘ déterminations rétrogrades ’ in that the action of a story is a function of its outcome ( 1969:94 ) . |
| 21 | The case of a force fit of pin to block can be recognized as the intersecting domain contains at least two pairs of intersecting surfaces ( see Figure 3.11 ) . |
| 22 | This process , of devising solutions for particular needs , should be recognized as the natural course of development in all engineering situations ( as opposed to a science-based approach where general principles would be extracted ) . |
| 23 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 24 | These can be recognized by the small knob close to the base which slides the catch up and down . |
| 25 | Can the species Homo erectus be recognized in the European fossil record ? |
| 26 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 27 | The suspicions of the disinterested onlooker are likely to be aroused against the whole notion of NAIRU as an operationally useful construct . |
| 28 | It therefore seems that the way will be eased to the continuing destruction of what is left of wild nature in Britain , to serve the open-ended demands of development and growth . |
| 29 | I started with the bottom rail as this would also have to be rebated on the bottom face to accommodate doors and top fixing for side panels . |
| 30 | That is why mystics in all religious traditions insist that this journey must not be undertaken without the close guidance of an expert . |