Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The document the kidnappers want was written by Vicente Ortiz , ’ said Charlotte in a rush . |
| 2 | The clients appreciate being kept in the picture , even if their stay can not be made shorter . |
| 3 | Such legislative powers as the three Offices enjoy are delegated by Parliament and subject to its scrutiny , though they differ in form and function . |
| 4 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 5 | The subterranean tunnels where the Night Goblins live are riddled with other , even older , passages and caverns . |
| 6 | The interest gained from the money is used to cover the operating costs of the union , and any surplus can be put towards a dividend on savings , although the savings return is limited by a ceiling of 8 per cent . |
| 7 | How bats avoid being jammed by other bats is not well understood , but an interesting clue comes from experiments on trying to put bats off . |
| 8 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 9 | Now I do nt believe everything I read and I only believe half of what I see , but if these words have been uttered by the ‘ poor mans Billy Bremner ’ , then even I think it 's a bit rich ! |
| 10 | The selected affixes and function words are represented within the planning frame in phonological form , and , as we have already noted , the phonological forms of the content words have been retrieved from the lexicon : when all these phonological representations are put together under the control of the planning frame , we have the positional-level representation for the sentence , a level at which a specific sentence is represented in phonological form . |
| 11 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 12 | These characteristics have been employed to great effect by geneticists , and advances to date have been remarkably swift . |
| 13 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 14 | These guidelines have been prepared for the information and guidance of staff in centres preparing and offering the National Certificate in Travel , and should be read in conjunction with the module descriptors . |
| 15 | Guidelines have been devised by the Network members to govern their conduct during the most common kinds of situations giving rise to contact between Network members . |
| 16 | Guidelines have been discovered beneath British mosaics on only a few occasions : the author knows of only two unequivocal examples — the painted lines on the penultimate layer of mortar of the mosaic from building XIII , Beeches Road , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 26 ) , and the scored circle of the fragmentary mosaic above the Charioteer pavement at Rudston ( Smith 1976 , 6 ) — although , in wall painting such practices were also known ( plaster on display , Jewry Wall Museum ) . |
| 17 | Since their publication in April 1990 about 30 000 copies of the college guidelines have been distributed to hospital doctors throughout the NHS . |
| 18 | Guidelines have been issued to them on the point at which they must desist from the chase because of danger to the public . |
| 19 | The guidelines have been issued in an attempt to reduce the thousands of injuries suffered by customers every year . |
| 20 | Programme makers discovered that guidelines have been isued to local authorities on what do in the event of a nuclear accident . |
| 21 | These Guidelines have been produced on behalf of SCOTVEC by members of the SCOTVEC Module Development Group for Office Administration and Technology in collaboration with the Curriculum Advice and Support Team ( CAST ) . |
| 22 | These Guidelines have been produced on behalf of SCOTVEC by members of the SCOTVEC Module Development Group for Law with the Curriculum Advice and Support Team . |
| 23 | The guidelines have been produced by the voluntary organisation Counsel and Care , which is dismayed by the government 's ‘ reluctance to provide official guidance ’ . |
| 24 | Guidelines have been established for Head Teachers to incorporate road safety education in the school curriculum . |
| 25 | Guidelines have been published in the UK concerning the management of attempters under the age of 16 ( Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Determining how much is too much is debatable but authoritative ( if somewhat tough ) guidelines have been set by Alcohol Concern in consultation with the Health Education Council and the medical professions ( Alcohol Concern , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 27 | Even so , the guidelines have been used in other cases as factors to be considered where the statute applies ( see Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd reported by Lawson in ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 933 , at p935 ) . |
| 28 | Guidelines have been agreed by management and union representatives and have been put to federal ministers . |
| 29 | Diverse cultures , religions and races have often found common ground and contact in rugby and lasting bridges between nations or peoples have been supported by sporting encounters at all levels . |
| 30 | Senoi peoples have been portrayed on the one hand as the quintessential noble savages by perpetrators of ‘ Senoi Dream Theory ’ ( Stewart 1951 , 1954 ; Garfield 1974 ) and on the other as raging bloodthirsty killers by proponents of instinctive human aggression ( Paul 1978 ; Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1979 ; Wilson 1978 ) . |