Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] and [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Sylvia Thomas , the YAS archivist , explained that almost half the one hundred parchment rolls ( each roll comprising up to thirty parchments ) had now been treated and that work would probably continue for another four to five years . |
| 2 | Please hurry though , stocks are limited and this offer must close on Saturday 30th June 1990 . |
| 3 | Suddenly , the circumstantial shackles are banished and this hirsute foursome wings scarcely precedented amounts of beauty and pathos from their thunderous psycho-grunge blueprint . |
| 4 | Limited provisions for fluctuations are included and some choice is given to the employer in the subcontractors to be employed for specialist work . |
| 5 | If the court considers that a matter has not been disclosed and that matter might have affected shareholders ' decisions on how to vote , it is unlikely to sanction the scheme ( see , for example , Re Jessel Trust Limited [ 1985 ] BCLC 119 and Re MB Group plc [ 1989 ] 5 BCC 684 ) . |
| 6 | However , on Monday morning , 29 April 1991 , I discovered that the seating in the office ( Room 3.14 ) had been rearranged and that cigarette ash was over the meeting table and one of the chairs . |
| 7 | All the basic properties of Wave Motion are considered and some time is spent on Ray Optics and Simple Electricity . |
| 8 | Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed . |
| 9 | The reviews are collected and another meeting scheduled between the facilitator and the idea originator . |
| 10 | B. On the lowland plains more fodder crops , including barley , oats , turnips and swedes are grown and much hay is made from grass grown in rotation with these arable crops . |
| 11 | This means that fewer cereal crops ( such as oats ) are grown and more land is put down to grass . |
| 12 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was reported that the site of the former mill ponds — known as ‘ the cut ’ in Scorton had again been opened and that tipping was taking place there . |
| 13 | All the rest , save one , have been demolished and that block is now used as a neighbourhood local authority services centre ( housing management , social services , etc. ) rather than for housing . |
| 14 | When all the necessary information has been supplied and any input errors corrected , the request can be sent to LIFESPAN by pressing the RETURN key . |
| 15 | It was stated afterwards that the principles for future friendly relations had been agreed and that border and other issues would be resolved with respect for mutual interests . |
| 16 | This invokes the operation of vicious circles , involving deforestation for arable cultivation and fuelwood underpinned by rapidly increasing population pressure ; as land is degraded by accelerated erosion , even steeper slopes are cultivated and more forest is cleared . |
| 17 | G–FLAK has been sold and another Baron is on line to replace it . |
| 18 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |
| 19 | Naff plebeian drugs , junk food , hoary sexism , a love of trash culture … hip hop and hardcore share all these , but where hip hop still has a guiding notion of cool ( both music and style are minimal ) neo-hardcore is prepared to LET IT ALL HANG OUT horribly ; the corset of cool has been ruptured and all manner of banished and forbidden rock memories have sprawled free … grotesquerie embraced as a defiant gesture against the sound track of yuppie culture — sleek , chic , designer pop-soul . |
| 20 | 8.1 In the event that the Secretary of State shall reject the Proposal either generally or as respects the proposed funding or participation of any proposed Party in the Project or if the Grant Offer Letter shall not have been issued and accepted by the Parties within six months of the date of execution hereof , then upon such rejection or the expiration of such six month period the Project shall , unless otherwise agreed , be deemed abandoned , the Proposal shall be withdrawn and any rights hereunder shall be deemed to have been terminated and each Party shall be entitled to require each other Party forthwith to deliver up and return to it all Technical Information and all other information supplied by it in connection with the Proposal together with all copies thereof in any form in the possession of such other Parties or any of its Related companies . |
| 21 | Even time and space are harmonized and this moment is made the focus of all time and all space and all history and all art . |
| 22 | In March 1990 it was reported that the target of a 6 per cent growth rate for 1989 had been reached and that inflation was falling . |
| 23 | The good work however does not stop there , as another £336 has already been raised and this time will be used to purchase a wheelchair for the Hospice . |
| 24 | The game is played to normal poker rules : five cards are dealt and each player bets loadsa cash . |
| 25 | In his judgment the magistrate said a large quantity of drugs , including pentobarbitone , had also been found and that evidence was given that it was used mostly for ‘ the humane euthanasia of badly injured or ill dogs or other animals . ’ |
| 26 | The rotating particles are videoed and each frame processed by computer to determine whether and in what quantities the target is present ; and whether it is alive or dead . |
| 27 | The challenge is then to persuade the statutory agencies that their priorities should be adjusted and that money should be found elsewhere to fund these new kinds of service . |
| 28 | For the growth of a forest , the fires have to be stopped and some enrichment planting of early successional species tried , e.g. Canarium zeylanicum ( Burseraceae ) , Artocarpus nobilis ( Moraceae ) and Vitex pinnata ( Verbenaceae ) , etc. to restore the tree cover . |
| 29 | When a good-going winter gale sets in , a week or more may pass without a break in the weather to allow the boat to be checked and any rain water to be pumped out . |
| 30 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |