Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 These rules are still of value and are widely followed throughout Europe and Asia .
2 Both propellers and silencers are widely adopted in Europe and fully approved by the German airworthiness authorities .
3 The Marcoses are widely blamed for Ninoy 's death .
4 The water authorities , which are widely blamed in Britain for raising water rates , are wrestling with a timebomb , inherited from local councils in 1974 .
5 Such techniques are widely used in America , Australia and in some European countries .
6 Sherpa Underblankets are widely used in N.H.S. hospitals to relieve painful hips , shoulders , elbows , neck and knees .
7 American schools are widely criticised in Britain for their ‘ authoritarian ’ teaching of spoken and written language .
8 Michael Portillo has been little known outside Westminster , but that is now changing , for he is the minister with the welfare state in his sights , says Joy Copley
9 It is this which ought to have been properly recalled in Freud 's later work , and he could then have introduced the term ‘ death instincts ’ to describe this basic , and in terms of the later theory , innate predisposition to kill other human beings .
10 Yet , one of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over .
11 Despite this , MUSE has now been widely adopted in Japan and TV sets are being designed , tubes are being manufactured and large-screen projection systems are coming to market .
12 Prior to his dismissal he had been widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , and he had served as acting Prime Minister for several periods during Manley 's illness in 1990 .
13 Despite a general sense of optimism surrounding Hariri 's appointment , a general strike called by the General Confederation of Lebanese Workers in protest at the deteriorating economic situation had been widely observed on Oct. 14 .
14 But their findings have been widely disseminated by Kelly in an interview on the BBC World Service programme Science in Action , where he stressed the significance of the new insight that a large-scale disruption of hemisphere-wide circulation mechanisms could be produced by events in the tropics .
15 Extensive oesophagogastric devascularisation combined with splenectomy , pyloromyotomy , vagotomy , and oesophageal transection has been widely practised in Japan while a modified version of this operation has been used in Great Britain .
16 This type of system which originated in the United Kingdom has been widely used throughout Europe and is gaining in popularity in the United States of America and Japan .
17 Mannekins has been widely performed across Europe since its premiere in 1981 , but is still unknown here .
18 The collapse of the Meech Lake Accord had been widely interpreted in Quebec as an rebuff by English-speaking Canada , and there had been an upsurge in popular support for the concept of outright independence for Quebec .
19 Moving now to collective political responses , the problems of political protest by the peasantry have been widely discussed by Shanin ( 1973 ) , Alavi ( 1973 ) , Cohen et al. , eds ( 1979 ) .
20 This was particularly the case when Marcia Williams , having been powerfully lobbied by Arnold Wesker , was determined to persuade Harold Wilson to bestow some extra support on ‘ Centre 42 ’ , which was Wesker 's notion of an organisation to supervise the growth of the arts in this country .
21 It would be almost inconceivable with his passion , that Green would not have been powerfully influenced by Wordsworth and , as will be shown later , in turn , reciprocated this effect .
22 The Sagramoso dynasty had been duly expunged from Karkason ad extremum fetumi .
23 These again have been intensively studied by Bagnold ( 1941 ) who distinguishes between the small-scale sand ripples and ridges and the large-scale dunes .
24 Promising areas for gold include Glen Almond in the southern part of the Scottish Highlands , and west of Omagh in Northern Ireland where the Lack prospect has been intensively drilled by RioFinex .
25 They were in the ecclesiastical tradition which would have prevailed in the north if Wilfrid had not been forcibly installed at York by Theodore in place of Chad .
26 NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed .
27 In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard .
28 Haines 's main tasks are to produce a ‘ strategic plan ’ for the Jockey Club , focusing on its role within the racing industry ; ensuring that the needs of racing are effectively understood in Whitehall and Westminster ; responsibility for the Club 's financial planning and maintaining close liaison with the Levy Board and the Horseracing Advisory Council .
29 They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ .
30 A new one has to be built from scratch but fabrication can only start when plans are eventually acquired from York .
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