Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because of the short time since the Edinburgh summit , few of the projects to be offered money are new . |
| 2 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 3 | From Otto 's time on the ambition to be crowned emperor by the pope was an inevitable ambition for all German kings until long after the end of our period ; nor was it ever forgotten that this was in imitation of Charles . |
| 4 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 5 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 6 | Labelling theory implies that criminals are powerless , passive victims who have had the misfortune to be labelled criminal , and have not been able to do anything about it . |
| 7 | As the retention represents deferred payment , it is reasonable for the vendor to be paid interest on the monies eventually received . |
| 8 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 9 | The questions to be resolved centre crucially on the relationship between political history , communist ideology and literary form . |
| 10 | Mr Patient , who will take up his post in January , is the first UK representative on the IAPC to be appointed chairman . |
| 11 | These can then be cycled by a tablet-called routine to allow the mechanism to be observed increment throughout its full event . |
| 12 | For the shipowners ploy in offering a substantial wage increase and in leaving the amount to be resolved port by port and company by company had the desired effect . |
| 13 | The building societies in particular allowed exaggerated views of the numbers to be made public . ’ |
| 14 | Such a course of action was rendered inconceivable by virtue of the Report 's reliance upon a discourse on art to legitimize the centrality to be accorded English within the curriculum . |