Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Page upon page has been filled with Cabinet splits , the Europe crisis , the economic crisis , the industrial and jobs crisis , the Mellor crisis … and a crisis of leadership . |
| 2 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 3 | While today 's soul singers tend to reflect the mores of a new black middle class , their erstwhile role — as an authentic voice or urban black experience — had been filled by rap artists . |
| 4 | The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations . |
| 5 | Most meetings are punctuated with champagne toasts , many are held in expensive restaurants . |
| 6 | Consumer protection laws are justified on efficiency grounds , in order to prevent consumers making unwise decisions because of insufficient knowledge of firms ' products . |
| 7 | A new dimension is added , and the conflicts are placed between ego instincts and object instincts , both of a sexual , libidinal nature . |
| 8 | Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately . |
| 9 | The budget debate had been delayed by opposition demands for an investigation into the government 's role in the various scandals . |
| 10 | A controversial plan for a bypass around Aylesbury has been delayed by county councillors . |
| 11 | Income taxes are more ‘ visible ’ to individuals than expenditure taxes , which to some extent are hidden in product prices . |
| 12 | Most of the year they are hidden in rock crevices . |
| 13 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 14 | P&O Ferries Ltd — Concessionary rates are given to Group employees and close relatives travelling on the P&O Ferries Orkney and Shetland Services — Aberdeen/Lerwick and Scrabster/Stromness routes . |
| 15 | One source of these surplus calories excreted is obviously the non-digestible cell-wall material which forms much of the dietary fibre itself : This is taken into account when calorie figures are given for carbohydrate foods . |
| 16 | On the CDC 6600 computer certain values of the floating-point exponent are set aside to represent zero , infinite , and " indefinite " operand values , and rules are given for arithmetic operations on these quantities ( for example , the difference of two infinite operands is indefinite ) . |
| 17 | Unless only the name and address are given with accommodation measurements ( which of course must be accurate ) they may be liable under the Act . |
| 18 | The following sentences are given with intonation marks . |
| 19 | The days of the week in which the lecturer works and gives a course are given in link records which need to be set up in these diagrams . |
| 20 | Another difference is that herbal medicines are not subjected to the potentization process , as is done in homoeopathy , but are given in material doses , often as tinctures . |
| 21 | Ray Flowers , chairman of the subcommittee has denied that farmers are favoured in pathway matters . |
| 22 | ( The conference had been lobbied by gypsy delegations for their recognition as an ethnic minority . ) |
| 23 | It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe . |
| 24 | As she probably knows , half of all patients are treated as emergency cases , half come from waiting lists . |
| 25 | However , attached lean-to garages are treated as home extensions , and must have full Building Regulations approval , especially as far as fire precautions are concerned . |
| 26 | Although there is good evidence that the long-term prognosis is better for patients who are treated in expert units , , the provision of specially designated beds is inadequate . |
| 27 | Around a third of haemophiliacs are treated by health specialists in the Oxford Region . |
| 28 | Such tasks are undertaken by research workers in many fields of industry . |
| 29 | All the projects are undertaken within working hours . |
| 30 | Allegations that Mr Gandhi or members of his family received large sums have often been heard on opposition hustings , but not a shred of evidence exists that his hands dipped anywhere near the till . |