Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform . |
| 2 | All pegs that are placed damage the cracks ( look at The Nose on El Cap for the ultimate statement on the process ) . |
| 3 | A number of practical examples are given to illustrate the principles explained in this chapter , and the chapter ends with a case study of how market segmentation might be implemented . |
| 4 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 5 | As applied to the crystallization of ice this mechanism is largely conjectural at present since little experimental work has been undertaken to estimate the pressures likely to be generated . |
| 6 | Scissors in the shape of dolphins are helping to boost the funds of International Dolphin Watch , the leading organisation for the study and conservation of these fun loving and intelligent mammals . |
| 7 | Conversely , if the checks are adjusted to allow the hammers to pass freely on their way up , they will not be checked on their way down . |
| 8 | Those of noble birth learn to ride with exceptional skill , and are taught to bear the arms of the Silver Helms , the magnificent Elven knights who fight in the vanguard of the High Elf army . |
| 9 | Terrible strain is put on three-day eventers if they are struggling to do the times cross country , and stress can mean injury . |
| 10 | Quite rightly , professionals are struggling to understand the pressures of caring , and their sympathy for carers can make them ignore or misread signs of abuse , or even to interpret abuse as a response to the difficulties some elderly people present . |
| 11 | The problem is that UK households , like US ones , are struggling to repay the debts they took on in the boom years of the 1980s , he explained . |
| 12 | Hospitals , clinics and Health Posts are underfunded and are struggling to meet the needs of ordinary people . |
| 13 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 14 | A HyperCard system has been developed to support the lectures . |
| 15 | Ten qualifications in excavation and reinstatement on the roads have been developed to meet the needs of the new Roads and Street Works 1991 Act . |
| 16 | While Marglin emphasises the way in which technology has been developed to meet the requirements of large-scale factory production , Braverman suggests that technological developments are also shaped by management 's desire to split conception from execution . |
| 17 | In addition , they should have been introduced to communication skills involving questioning , simulation and judgement and opportunities should have been given to prepare the pupils to cope with conflicting evidence in actual historical issues . |
| 18 | Those who know , think it a matter without interest , so that again and again in my enquiries , when some touch of colour has been given illuminating the ways of life among the people who are above the need for help , it has been cut short by a semi-apology : ‘ But that is not what you want to know about ’ … |
| 19 | The sub-atomic particles are arranged to form the atoms , and different numbers , types and arrangements of atoms form the molecules . |
| 20 | The layers of jargon and acronyms are explained to reveal the systems and products underneath . |
| 21 | A song like I am singing calms the nerves like Valium |
| 22 | It was two more hours before they reached the barbed-wire perimeter that had been erected to stop the Germans breaking through . |
| 23 | On the other hand , caution should be adopted in the interests of third parties , and there should be a reluctance to assume that the treaty has been amended to alter the objects and purposes of an organisation . |
| 24 | Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area . |
| 25 | GENERAL AIRCRAFT had been formed to exploit the patents of the Monospar Wing Co ltd . |
| 26 | These changes are intended to update the schemes and , in particular , reflect recent developments in the practice relating to such schemes and to ensure conformity between all schemes . |
| 27 | The increases have been introduced as part of the " polluter pays " principle and are intended to cover the costs incurred by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in controlling water pollution . |
| 28 | Software reseller Corporate Software Inc has launched its Advance series of software management services worldwide — these are intended to reduce the costs of buying , installing and using both licensed and custom personal computer software . |
| 29 | They are intended to advance the objects of the BDA within their regions and to provide regional forums for discussion and action . |
| 30 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |