Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against these considerations , there have to be weighed the practical and constitutional matters urged by the Attorney-General many of which have been relied on in the past in the courts in upholding the exclusionary rule . |
| 2 | Whilst the Purchaser can accept that the Memorandum has not been prepared with the precision of a legal document ( and accordingly the warranty may require some modification ) nevertheless the core of the information contained in it has been relied on by the Purchaser in agreeing to buy the Business and to the extent that it does not appear in any of the other information which is being warranted by the Vendor , it should be warranted in its own right . |
| 3 | Alternatively , could the third party later retract the acceptance on the grounds that it was not written , and therefore could not have been relied upon by the parties to the Vienna Convention ? |
| 4 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 5 | Two neighbouring sections of the Act are relied upon by the Bank of England in support of their construction of section 39 . |
| 6 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 7 | We are aware that we can control the method of access by users though our application , but there are other tools they are using in in the company to access the corporate relational database and your database controller must be aware of those tools and implement the same controls on those views of that information within the database . |
| 8 | ‘ I am appalled at the manner in which Mr Birt 's affairs have been leaked from within the BBC . |
| 9 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 10 | It is important to remember that a very large percentage of jobs never come on to the open market but are filled from within the firm , by people applying ‘ on spec. ’ or by people who hear about a vacancy from friends or colleagues working in the same field . |
| 11 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 12 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 13 | It has been referred to as the weapon of the strong and not of the weak . |
| 14 | And the process of secularization , which has as one of its fruits the growth of technology , has similarly been referred to as the product of Western Christian civilization and the spirit of Christianity ‘ incognito ’ . |
| 15 | This conserved domain ( aa 30-97 ) has been referred to as the TEA domain ( 9 ) . |
| 16 | This phenomenon has been referred to as the ‘ flypaper effect ’ , so named because money will stick in the sector that it hits — grants to the local public economy will be spent in the local public economy . |
| 17 | Could I just say colleagues that the the General Secretary is proposing that we 're having , we , we , we 're gon na , we gon na have the bucket collection as has been referred to during the course of the debate and it 's recommended that whatever is in the buckets that the union actually doubles the collection . |
| 18 | The close relationship between criterion-referenced assessment and the curriculum has been referred to in the previous section . |
| 19 | Furthermore we have a series of major landscape features , er which are been referred to in the greenbelt local plan and elsewhere as wedges , which you 'll see from the map enter into the very heart of the city itself . |
| 20 | While this is an issue which has been referred to in the literature ( Bourner and Hamed , 1987 ) , it is not one which has been extensively explored with regard to the achievements of non-traditional students , but it is a potentially important measure which requires further investigation . |
| 21 | The position with regard to side letters ( setting out supplemental agreements ) is that they may not be binding as they probably will not have been referred to in the principal agreement . |
| 22 | The magazine could not prove the truth of this statement , which it had sourced to an MI5 report , but it claimed to be able to justify the " sting " of the libel , namely that the plaintiff was a person given to extra-marital affairs , a number of which had been referred to in the article without attracting complaint . |
| 23 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 24 | Argaw Tiruneh , appointed Minister of Housing and Town Development and of Construction , had been referred to by the radio on May 9 as Construction Minister . |
| 25 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 26 | The skin and all body orifices are colonised with microorganisms shortly after birth ; indeed , the body acts as ‘ host ’ to these microorganisms which are called commensals , and are referred to as the body 's natural or resident flora . |
| 27 | Interest received by the bank(s) is used , firstly , to meet what are referred to as the funding costs of the loan . |
| 28 | The other explanation put forward for Allende 's defeat was the role of the ‘ privileged ’ , the ‘ bosses ’ and the ruling elite — the transport workers ' strikes which inflicted serious damage on the economy and are referred to as the ‘ bosses ’ strikes ' . |
| 29 | Together , the knowledge of linguistic universals and the innate processing strategies are referred to as the ‘ Language Acquisition Device ’ or LAD . |
| 30 | But these are official figures which do not include what are referred to as the hidden homeless — those sharing households and those living rough . |