Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On polling day , the elector is faced with a small ballot slip on which are printed the names usually of only three or four candidates ( Six or more candidates standing in any one constituency would be unusual . ) |
| 2 | This threefold division is maintained in the completed organ which is divided into corresponding regions which are designated the protocerebrum , the deutocerebrum and the tritocerebrum respectively , though the division is not always apparent externally . |
| 3 | Perhaps everyone who works with such old people needs a period of physical disability ( real or ‘ pretend ’ ) to see just what effort goes into the daily round and the strategies which are adopted the better to cope and to preserve independence . |
| 4 | It consists of one huge room with a hemispherical vault on which are displayed the stars and planets . |
| 5 | It now seems likely that the eukaryotic cell itself — the basic structure from which are constructed the bodies of all animals , plants , and fungi — originally evolved as a symbiotic association between various bacteria ; that is , between various different prokaryotes . |
| 6 | These stands can hold several hundred strips , on which are typed the guest 's name , initials , room number . |
| 7 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 8 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the County Council believes it has gone as far as its possibly can to recognize and respond to the district 's problems , and that it can not justify moving any closer in reducing the gap between the recommended allocation of a hundred and thirty two hectares and the two hundred to two hundred and fifty hectares which are requested the District Council . |
| 10 | The great rectangular block on which are inscribed the one-sixtieth fractions of the allied tribute which were ‘ paid ’ to the goddess Athena has room for one fewer annual list than the available years , and the most likely solution from a technical point of view is that no one-sixtieth was paid to Athena in 449 . |
| 11 | Immediately under the throne is an enclosure , surrounded by silver rails , in which are assembled the whole body of Omrahs , the Rajahs and the Ambassadors , all standing with their eyes bent downwards , and their hands crossed . |
| 12 | Mordovia is the cesspit into which are flushed the malcontents and malefactors of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 13 | These Regulations , which are entitled The Companies Act 1985 ( Accounts of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Publication of Accounts in Ecus ) Regulations 1992 ( see also ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 13 ) , came into force on 16 November 1992 . |
| 14 | Parliament was the arena in which were made the most formal decisions : laws applicable to the whole realm , superior to any other rules or customs . |
| 15 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 16 | In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British . |
| 17 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects , which were given the name pulsars , were in fact rotating neutron stars that were emitting pulses of radio waves because of a complicated interaction between their magnetic fields and surrounding matter . |
| 18 | One of the duties occasionally assumed by the guilds was the maintenance of a charnel , a subterranean chamber into which were placed the bones of the dead disturbed when interments took place in the churchyard . |
| 19 | It comprised a circular curtain-wall of stone enclosing a courtyard within which were placed the domestic apartments and service offices , probably of timber construction . |
| 20 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 21 | But limited partnerships are rare , private companies , which were sanctioned the next year by the Companies Act 198 , having proved more popular . |
| 22 | Between these pilasters are still visible the corbels upon which were supported the masts of the velarium which was drawn across the auditorium . |
| 23 | The Church gave to every community , large or small , refuge from persecution and pillage , provided education and learning , medical aid and a basis for life by which were allayed the superstitious fears of the individual , which stemmed from his lack of experience and knowledge of health , life and death , understanding of the world and of man himself . |
| 24 | Thus many of the early joint.stock enterprises which were granted the privilege of corporate identity were concerned with building and operating canals and railways . |
| 25 | Now the suite was in my name , so I was charged with possession of all these drugs , and with assault , and with a lot of other charges like operating a dive , running a disorderly house and all silly charges which were dropped the following day . |
| 26 | The officer turned away , returning a moment later with a clipboard to which were attached the preliminary , handwritten reports . |
| 27 | Moorish Spain was in fact a crucible in which were fused the contributions of diverse cultures … |
| 28 | The result of this preponderance of the ideological in the literary debate was that discussion tended to centre exclusively on recurrent programmatic themes — positive heroes , revolutionary romanticism , partisanship , tendentiousness , and so on — in which were sown the seeds of a sterile , bureaucratic and immobile aesthetic theory unable to adapt to changing socio-political conditions , capable only of mouthing the current party line . |
| 29 | Amongst all the negative characteristics that Piggy was given the four which were stressed the most were his asthma , glasses , physical appearance and most of all the loss of his parents . |
| 30 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |