Example sentences of "[conj] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chile banned the cutting of living trees in 1976 , and in 1987 added the alerce to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , but with the stipulation that trees that had died or been cut before 1976 could still be exported . |
| 2 | In April AI called on the Mauritanian Government to investigate reports that up to 200 political prisoners had died or been killed in military or police custody — some executed without trial and many others as a result of torture . |
| 3 | Three of the meteorites were found on rocky terrain where they may have fallen directly or been deposited by melted ice . |
| 4 | In 1905 the most powerful companies in the United Kingdom would have included J. & P. Coats , The Calico Printers ' Association , The Bleachers ' Association , Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. , Bolckow Vaughan and many others who have either closed down or been absorbed into other more powerful groups . |
| 5 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 6 | Disputes relating to rights and obligations centre upon interpreting the status quo , while third parties ' claims may rest upon interests or needs that have emerged or been articulated at some subsequent time . |
| 7 | One may summarize the conclusions reached with respect to , and within the terms of , the traditional account of the Muftilik as follows : ( a ) that Fahreddin Acemi remained as Mufti , whether in Edirne or Istanbul , until his death , which occurred probably not later than 873/1468 ; ( b ) that he was succeeded by Abdulkerim , who seems likely to have resigned or been removed about 878/1473–4 ; ( c ) that Molla Husrev succeeded to the office about 878/1473–4 and held it until his death in 885/1480–1 ; ( d ) that he was succeeded by Molla Gurani in 885/1480–1 ( but cf. below , pp. 144–6 , 150 ) , who retained the office until his death in 893/1488 ; and ( e ) that Molla Arab succeeded Molla Gurani in that year and remained Mufti until his death in 901/1495–6 . |
| 8 | A report published in London on the same day by the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that over 200 people arrested in late 1990 had died or been executed in military or police custody . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions , regard may be had to the previous conduct and activities in business or financial matters of the person in question and , in particular , to any evidence that he has — ( a ) committed an offence involving fraud or other dishonesty or violence ; ( b ) contravened any provision made by or under any enactment appearing to the Bank to be designed for protecting members of the public against financial loss due to dishonesty , incompetence or malpractice … ( c ) engaged in any business practices appearing to the Bank to be deceitful or oppressive or otherwise improper ( whether unlawful or not ) or which otherwise reflect discredit on his method of conducting business ; ( d ) engaged in or been associated with any other business practices or otherwise conducted himself in such a way as to cast doubt on his competence and soundness of judgement . |
| 10 | Supervisors with Scottish research interests may have moved elsewhere ; the purposes of the research may have changed within universities ; Research Council funding for such research may have changed or been re-distributed to other universities . |
| 11 | Admittedly then , those seeking a comprehensive analysis , will have to have some a priori position on these issues since they all profoundly affect or are affected by environmental degradation . |
| 12 | The structure of the development or construction company will affect the nature of the feasibility study , depending on whether the functions of funding , construction and marketing are all undertaken by one company or are subdivided between several different companies . |
| 13 | Vogue wheels should not be fitted to earlier Range Rovers unless the wheel studs are marked with a line on the end or are replaced with new ones . |
| 14 | Support for the scanning hypothesis of lateral differences in tachistoscopic recognition came in the form of findings which showed the direction of visual field asymmetry to be related to whether the stimuli are symmetrically shaped ( Bryden , 1968 ) or are presented in normal or in mirror image orientation ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ) . |
| 15 | Social deixis concerns " that aspect of sentences which reflect or establish or are determined by certain realities of the social situation in which the speech act occurs " ( Fillmore , 1975 : 76 ) . |
| 16 | Where such resources are controlled at the top or are determined by national agreements , as with much of public sector salaries , then the power of middle management will diminish . |
| 17 | The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction . |
| 18 | Many schools still have a remedial department or are visited by peripatetic remedial teachers who withdraw children for extra tuition in reading with little time for consultation with school staff . |
| 19 | Mental events , like most events , are composite-they contain or are constituted of other mental events . |
| 20 | These form a layer at or near the surface or are incorporated into inner layers of the cuticle . |
| 21 | Sometimes , these remain in the landscape or are incorporated into complex village plans ; elsewhere , they were abandoned in what seems to have been wholescale replanning and resiting of villages . |
| 22 | Any small amounts of matter leaking from the black holes will gather together to form new stars , but those stars will themselves evolve until they either become black holes or are subsumed into black holes . |
| 23 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 24 | 50 ) , or are featured as one of a set of four pairs of squares ( pI . |
| 25 | Those that do escape , or are released by compassionate fishing captains and crew , are often caught again , and the same dolphins may often be chased to exhaustion and encircled with tuna nets many times each fishing season . |
| 26 | Whether this is a common occurence and whether the larvae migrate or are transported by terrestrial populations of earthworms or beetles is not definitely known , but the occurrence of this apparent reservoir of larvae in soil may be important in relation to certain systems of control based on grazing management . |
| 27 | Mostly they do administrative work inside the station , drive for the section inspector , or are seconded to administrative work elsewhere in the station . |
| 28 | When goods are carried in different vehicles or are of a different kind or are divided into different lots , the sender of the carrier is entitled to require a separate consignment note for each vehicle or each kind or lot of goods . |
| 29 | Within this tendency , the basic ‘ facts ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a given society and/or period are received or are established by general analysis , and their ‘ reflection ’ in actual works is more or less directly traced . |
| 30 | No Reporter can be removed from office , asked to resign , or be employed in another capacity without the consent of the Secretary of State . |