Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’ |
| 2 | Halley and his successors at the Royal Greenwich Observatory would surely have been fascinated to learn of the unexpected uses to which astronomers of the late 20th century would put their solar observations . |
| 3 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 4 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 5 | They are taught to look for the common signs of preparation that precede offences . |
| 6 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 7 | A total of 4,300,000 Angolans had been registered to vote by the July 31 deadline , but in the expectation of the registration of a further 1,000,000 voters , the UN team extended the deadline by another 10 days . |
| 8 | New modules have been developed to link with the requirements of the Road Transport Industry Training Board . |
| 9 | Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common . |
| 10 | The methods and techniques which have been developed to cope with the child-rearing process seem to apply equally to families who are experiencing the difficulties and frustrations of caring for an ageing relative . |
| 11 | A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system . |
| 12 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 13 | Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ? |
| 14 | These are team meetings where the analysis and design specifications and other documentation are exposed to review by the members of the team . |
| 15 | from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and |
| 16 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 17 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 18 | The six-member secretariat had been formed to deal with the SNC 's day-to-day administration . |
| 19 | A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme . |
| 20 | In preceding weeks a seven-member committee had been formed to prepare for the privatization of 76 state companies , in which foreign investors would be able to acquire minority holdings . |
| 21 | A National Parliamentary Movement ( MNP ) of 19 parties had been formed to campaign for the early adoption of a parliamentary system , which could mean severely curtailing Collor 's powers . |
| 22 | An advisory group , which includes distinguished engineers and scientists from outside BP , has been formed to advise on the effectiveness of the new research and engineering structure as it evolves , as well as on the relevance and potential value of emerging technologies . |
| 23 | This means that we have to specify a number of assumptions , and those we have chosen are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of how the economy works and at the same time to simplify the analysis in a way which enables us to see clearly how DD unemployment can arise . |
| 24 | The following assumptions are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of the economy and to simplify the analysis in such a way that enables us to make useful predictions . |
| 25 | Some have a loop around the spat , between stops , others have loops which are intended to go around the spar and the extension of the vinyl sockets . |
| 26 | The seminars are intended to act as the basis for developing a future programme of collaborative research in the periphery . |
| 27 | Read the manufacturer 's descriptions carefully , for some of the smaller pools are really rock pools which are intended to sit near the summit of a rock garden so that water tumbles down a cascade unit into a pool below . |
| 28 | It has been a fashion among Opposition Members — indeed , this was reported by the hon. Gentleman tonight — to suggest that the access funds alone are intended to compensate for the withdrawal of benefits generally and that the £25 million , which he correctly quoted , must , therefore , be inadequate . |
| 29 | To the extent that job cost records are intended to assist in the calculation of real profit margins these rates , excluding profits , are normally used . |
| 30 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |