Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ferdinand Marcos fled to Hawaii in 1986 after being deposed as president of the Philippines , his close friend Mr Cojuangco went with him . |
| 2 | Information that is received in the course of the decision-making process has a far greater chance of being used than information that is stored within the organization . |
| 3 | After leaving the Dardanelles he spent some time in Salonika and Egypt , before being posted as brigadier-general ( November 1915 ) on the staff of the reserve corps led by Sir Hubert Gough [ q.v. ] on the western front . |
| 4 | A warrant was issued for her to attend court on a date to be fixed when sentence will be passed . |
| 5 | Refusal to sit is often associated with constipation and soiling and may have to be taught before bowel movements can be encouraged . |
| 6 | This loneliness then tends to be misdiagnosed as depression and medications may be prescribed which may make the disease even worse . |
| 7 | The car had to be righted before fire crews could attempt to cut the woman free . |
| 8 | Surveys are now showing that many people would prefer not to be treated if continuation of their life means being strapped to a machine . |
| 9 | Splitting communication into levels may sometimes help , but those separate levels will always need to be reintegrated if communication is to take place . |
| 10 | With such a small yet historically vital authenticated oeuvre , these ‘ doubtful ’ works surely cry out to be recorded as Volume 4 of ASV 's series , fenced around of course with all proper scholarly dubitation . |
| 11 | Much more large scale research and testing of smoke venting systems needs to be undertaken before fire performance can be predicted with some confidence . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It would also , not least important , enable a fairer result to be obtained if rail intervenes . |
| 14 | As a result , the ideology of the dominant class — or ‘ race ’ — comes to be accepted as self evident ‘ common sense ’ by large sections of society , including groups who would seem to have little to gain from them . |
| 15 | To be accepted as member there really would cap a memorable few years . |
| 16 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 17 | The arrival at the point where an hypothetical statement has to be accepted as fact in order to support efforts to rationalise a proposition , in this case a religion , is inevitable . |
| 18 | While a common market would most clearly benefit Sweden , which had the largest economy , the question would have to be raised whether participation would compromise its political neutrality . |
| 19 | The same is true of exx.1b and 1c from the ‘ Jupiter ’ Symphony , since a note has to be reasonably short for the stroke to be perceived as staccato sign , shorter certainly than a dotted minim in allegretto or tied semibreves in any tempo . |
| 20 | A government which allowed itself to be perceived as anti-car would clearly be running a risk . |
| 21 | The characteristics of the original speaker tend to be lost when speech is generated in this way but the words themselves can be clearly understood . |
| 22 | Despite the current employment situation in the UK , where some 280 BA-sponsored graduates from Oxford and Prestwick have yet to be employed as aircrew by the airline , Meehan is unequivocal in his optimism for the future . |
| 23 | The scheme takes advantage of the extremely long prepatent period which allows a single breeding cycle by the gilts to be completed before egg-laying begins and so progressively eliminates infection . |
| 24 | This form is to be completed if proofing of an individual entry or a range of entries is required . |
| 25 | A condition in this arrangement whereby the plaintiff was to be replaced as architect for the scheme did not constitute inducing breach of contract . |
| 26 | People are now waking up to the fact that the natural world is our primary source and has got to be conserved if man is to continue . |
| 27 | Work on these lines ( beyond the scope of this book ) has been attempted , but various , not necessarily valid , assumptions have to be made before progress is possible . |
| 28 | There may be a lot of anxiety , guilt , anger , or desperation locked away and although this is often painful to expose , therapeutic progress is unlikely to be made until openness is achieved . |
| 29 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 30 | Geriatrics beds are those most likely to be blocked while assessment teams explore alternatives to residential care . |