Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such accommodation is likely to be withdrawn as councils Increasingly sell off property to private developers .
2 On April 20 , however , Angolan radio warned that the government delegation might be withdrawn if UNITA continued " to intensify its military actions " .
3 However , " viewers ' religious feelings " were to be respected by both public and private broadcasting and a licence could be withdrawn if programmes threatened " national culture or state security and defence " .
4 Two local union members , and a district union official employed by the union , threatened BOAC that labour would be withdrawn if R were not removed within three days as required by a resolution passed at a members ’ meeting .
5 The right to claim benefits will be withdrawn when loans are introduced .
6 Clear objectives are essential as , without well-defined goals , it is likely that efforts will be misdirected and achievement consequently disappointing .
7 The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab .
8 Ingleston ( 1986 ) , discussing an updated surgical dressings technique , declares that masks are not needed , while Ayton ( 1985 ) questions the use of masks even in theatre and says , ‘ if there is good ventilation , the levels of airborne contamination may not be altered whether masks are used or not ’ . ]
9 Does the Minister agree that that — and the practice of sending vexatious summonses to people who have paid their bills , and who are being forced to pay £12 a head for the privilege of receiving such a summons — must be altered if people are to have any confidence in the system ?
10 How would the algorithm need to be altered if numbers were stored in fractional form ( as in problem 2.2 ) ?
11 But yesterday a statement issued by Mr Sadler revealed the council 's continued hard line over Sunday opening — which can not be altered until councillors discuss the matter on June 16 .
12 It should be recognized that identification of fluctuation effects of small magnitude requires data with a high signal-to-noise ratio .
13 Given that the ideal of the companionate marriage had existed before the eighteenth century , it must be recognized that women 's position within marriage was inferior to that of men .
14 It must be recognized that Donna Landry 's views on Leapor are most nearly justified in relation to this piece .
15 It must also be recognized that hospital admission can prove a particularly daunting experience for someone whose basic life-style is totally different from the British one .
16 Nevertheless , it must be recognized that co-operation by itself can not compensate entirely for inadequate funding .
17 Furthermore , it must be recognized that Duck was psychologically fragile and might have collapsed even in ideal circumstances .
18 The system would bring about a close association between the Council itself and the institutions in which academic strength would be recognized and aspirations for academic freedom met in a way different from the traditional one of creating wholly autonomous chartered institutions .
19 As before , a copy was sent to the Royal College with a suggestion that the 1844 Charter should be amended because Sir James Graham was ‘ disposed to attach weight to the representations ’ .
20 Professor Ian Craft , of the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre , said : ‘ The law needs to be amended and people need to be aware of the problem . ’
21 Do you , do you happen to know , will this service give benefit advice as well , because the , the budget which introduced a , an allowance of a kind for , for child care , is actually quite complicated , and , and it 's kind of er , an amount of income which can be disallowed before Family Credits are calculated and it , it , it involves a new kind of benefits trap as well , and I can see people needing quite a lot of advice about how to get it , and , and when not to get it and so on .
22 There was no reason why ‘ damage to the pocket' simpliciter should be disallowed when damage to the pocket coupled with physical damage has always been allowed .
23 The growth of quangos fits in with the idea that the burden on ministers could be eased if government departments concentrated on the development of policy and ‘ hived off ’ large blocs of routine administration .
24 By the end of 1944 Morgenthau seemed persuaded that the task would be eased if Britain were to serve as a junior partner in pursuit of these objectives .
25 At opposite extremes are the ‘ seamless web of learning ’ party who would appear to argue that integration is so noble in itself that it should be undertaken whether teachers can handle it or not , and the committed and dogmatic subject specialist with a bookful of behavioural objectives and forty pages of sequenced syllabus to back them up .
26 Much more large scale research and testing of smoke venting systems needs to be undertaken before fire performance can be predicted with some confidence .
27 In late March 1990 McKenna proposed such a compromise but the response of the Quebec legislature was to pass a resolution stating that no discussion of McKenna 's companion document could be undertaken until Meech Lake had been ratified in its original form .
28 Strategic Planning Guidance … can provide the framework to begin the necessary work which will have to be undertaken if sustainability is to be given any credence within the development plan framework . ’
29 Ms Hoey is the first Labour frontbencher in the Commons to be sacked since Mr Smith replaced Neil Kinnock as party leader .
30 With speculation growing that Laughton will be sacked unless results improve rapidly , Leeds began badly .
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