Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And surviving missals and other documents of the Celtic Church prove to be riddled with excerpts from Judaic apocryphal books and additional texts which had long and rigorously been forbidden by Rome .
2 Provided that environmental concerns are met and are specifically addressed in the planning process , we believe that output from the opencast sector must be blended with output from the deep-mine sector .
3 The alcohol can be blended with petrol to a proportion of up to 20% alcohol and run in a conventional car engine without adjustment .
4 The C.-in-C. of the CIS Armed Forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , who met US Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow on Jan. 29 , said in London on Jan. 30 that tactical nuclear weapons located in all former Soviet republics , except Ukraine and Byelarus , would be withdrawn to Russia by July .
5 The Committee ordered that the member 's Practising Certificate be withdrawn with effect from 1 February 1993 .
6 Sight deposits are any deposits that can be withdrawn on demand by the depositor without penalty .
7 63,000 claims to be withdrawn following investigation by Employment Service inspectors
8 The pilot scheme can only be used by consenting parties which consent can not be withdrawn without leave of the court .
9 However , he emphasised that Ukraine wanted a share of the resources allocated to the former Soviet Union by Germany , for resettling on its territory some of the former Soviet servicemen who were to be withdrawn from Germany by 1994 [ see p. 38354 ] .
10 Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’
11 At present , the Australian stations are served by three ageing chartered supply vessels — one of which is to be withdrawn from service in 1987/88 .
12 Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises .
13 To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders .
14 BRITISH troops should be withdrawn from Bosnia by November and replaced by other United Nations forces , the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , indicated yesterday .
15 In Britain , two months earlier , the government had decided in a last-minute about-turn that its nuclear power stations , once the shining lamps that would light the way to the sustainably developed future , were unsaleable and so would be withdrawn from privatization of the electricity industry .
16 Second-hand and home-made toys are to be withdrawn from sale in charity shops because of a new EC law .
17 The ruling overturned a February 1989 civil settlement , whereby criminal charges against UCC were to be withdrawn in return for compensation [ see p. 36466 ] .
18 FIFTIES style trains to be withdrawn in favour of safer , modern carriages .
19 They can be withdrawn in cash on demand and are thus also totally liquid .
20 The remaining twenty-seven were obliged to be withdrawn in consequence of action brought or disputed ownership .
21 Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 .
22 Power Now , and the Intel Pentium , will be highlighted at Cebit in Germany this week .
23 Optimism must always be tinged with anxiety for it not to become braggartism , and there were enough instances in the past , mainly at Olympic Games where British flames of hope had turned to ashes of despair , for a note of caution to be sounded .
24 As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks .
25 The first is that national interests can be guarded by way of intergovernmental agreements made in association with the Treaties .
26 He is no more likely to be provoked into acts of violence , even though he is made the subject of abusive and insulting remarks and conduct , and it is suggested that in this respect the law remains precisely the same .
27 Even if you are coping well enough overall , you may sometimes be provoked into anger against the patient , either because of his behaviour , or because of your mutual frustration at the situation his illness has created .
28 Criterial and excluded traits can be diagnosed by means of entailment relations between sentences : for instance , ‘ animal ’ is a criterial trait of dog because It 's a dog entails It 's an animal ; ‘ fish ’ is an excluded trait of dog because It 's a dog entails It 's not a fish .
29 Overinvolvement by close relatives seems to be implicated in relapse of an established schizophrenic illness .
30 Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination .
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