Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 2 | The passage from Lord Lindley 's judgment that I have cited has been relied on in a number of subsequent cases but , before coming to them , I should refer to an earlier case , Bainbrigge v. Browne ( 1881 ) 18 Ch.D. 188 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two neighbouring sections of the Act are relied upon by the Bank of England in support of their construction of section 39 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This has , of course , been recognized for over a century . |
| 10 | ‘ I am appalled at the manner in which Mr Birt 's affairs have been leaked from within the BBC . |
| 11 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | The top personnel in these enterprises have been referred to as a state bourgeoisie. we can , therefore , identify three fractions : domestic capitalists ; managers of multinationals and top administrators of public enterprises . |
| 16 | The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy , though the term has been used differently by various social scientists . |
| 17 | Moyer 's Buttress is no exception and is probably the finest climb on the crag , tackling a feature which in days of yore would no doubt have been referred to as a bastion . |
| 18 | Strictly speaking , collocations represent syntagmatic and paradigmatic knowledge rather than semantic , but it is argued that they represent the implicit application of syntactic , semantic and pragmatic knowledge [ Sharman , 1990 ] , and for reasons of simplicity have been referred to as a source of semantic information . |
| 19 | In the light of that report the local authority carried out what has been referred to as a radical re-examination of the position . |
| 20 | In the nick south of the river where Nelson had done his early constable training , such a case would have been referred to as an AFD . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | It has been referred to as the weapon of the strong and not of the weak . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | This conserved domain ( aa 30-97 ) has been referred to as the TEA domain ( 9 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In such cases , Hansard has frequently been referred to with a view to ascertaining whether a statutory power has been improperly exercised for an alien purpose or in a wholly unreasonable manner . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The close relationship between criterion-referenced assessment and the curriculum has been referred to in the previous section . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |