Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 2 | Once filed an application can only be withdrawn with the leave of the court ( FPCR , r5(1) ; FPR , r4.5(1) ) . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being . |
| 4 | A bankruptcy petition , put before the court and registered on the court file , can not be withdrawn without the court 's permission , so presentation of this kind of application should not be undertaken lightly . |
| 5 | A petition can not be withdrawn without the leave of the court ( s 266(2) ) and leave will not be given before the petition is heard ( r 6.32(3) ) . |
| 6 | On 3 May he protested that Alexander 's troops were entering areas already liberated by his forces , and requested that these should be withdrawn behind the line of the river Isonzo . |
| 7 | When it met officials from the Department of Trade and Industry last year to urge that areas of the seabed close to the coastline and islands of Wales be withdrawn from the licensing round it was only partially successful . |
| 8 | The Government 's official scientific advisers , the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , has recommended that many of the blocks currently being offered to oil companies should be withdrawn from the licensing round . |
| 9 | Dexter 's strictures , about the need to make progress soon , because otherwise they would be withdrawn from the case , fizzed in her mind . |
| 10 | Yeltsin announced to the Russian Supreme Soviet on Dec. 25 that all forces of the Russian Security and Internal Affairs Ministry were to be withdrawn from the Caucasus . |
| 11 | On March 26 Zorig , the MDU leader , called for all Soviet advisors to be withdrawn from the Ministry of Defence and Public Security and from the Planning Commission . |
| 12 | Since a share is a financial claim on the firm 's real wealth in the form of its physical assets , the economic earnings of a share are defined as the maximum amount of real resources that can be withdrawn from the share and used for real consumption without impairing the ability of the share to deliver real consumption in the future . |
| 13 | Patients deteriorating to the point when renal dialysis is considered should be withdrawn from the transplant list . |
| 14 | [ For announcement on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that all nuclear power stations would be withdrawn from the privatization programme see p. 37159 . ] |
| 15 | Prof Jennett welcomed the recent court decision in England allowing feeding to be withdrawn from the Hillsborough football stadium disaster victim , Tony Bland , but added that further guidelines were needed . |
| 16 | Mothers of young children were to be withdrawn from the labour market to be supported by allowances from the state and by their more fully employed husbands . |
| 17 | Editor , — Albert Figueras and colleagues suggest that gangliosides can be withdrawn from the market because their efficacy is not clearly delineated . |
| 18 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 19 | We are demanding that British , US , and other foreign troops be withdrawn from the Gulf immediately and that a peaceful solution be sought to the crisis . |
| 20 | Under the accord ( i ) an immediate ceasefire was declared ; ( ii ) the state of emergency in Gao and Timbuktu provinces was lifted and army troops were to be withdrawn from the area ; ( iii ) an amnesty was granted to all Tuareg political prisoners ; ( iv ) internal autonomy was to be granted to the Adrar region ( i.e. Gao and Timbuktu ) ; and ( v ) additional state funds were to be allocated to the development of the region . |
| 21 | Recognition , which once granted will remain in force for three years , will automatically cease upon liquidation or the making of an administration order under the Insolvency Act 1986 and may be withdrawn by the Council in the event that it is subsequently discovered that it was obtained as a result of any error or fraud . |
| 22 | These deposits are then frozen — they can not be withdrawn by the banks . |
| 23 | A briefing paper presented to him on Dec. 18 , 1989 , by comparison , had argued that anything up to 80,000 Pacific-based US personnel could be withdrawn by the end of fiscal 1994 , saving around $3,600 million , and that two light infantry divisions on standby postings in Alaska and Hawaii could also safely be withdrawn . |
| 24 | Germany 's particular concern was the 275,000 Soviet troops still stationed there and due to be withdrawn by the end of 1994 . |
| 25 | In June Lithuanians had voted overwhelmingly for Russian troops to be withdrawn by the end of 1992 ; Latvia and Estonia had reportedly also made the same demand . |
| 26 | Money Any blunders you make will be highlighted at the end of the month , so be extra careful , especially if you are in charge of other people 's cash . |
| 27 | Latin America will feature in the Lent materials , probably Christian Aid Week , and will be highlighted in the Festival . |
| 28 | Where there is uncertainty about the financial information in the target 's most recently published financial statements , any important factors must be highlighted by the board and the financial adviser . |
| 29 | Note that actual files containing skeleton package modules are not deleted ; these files will be highlighted by the validation procedure as files containing unknown modules . |
| 30 | Problems are sometimes difficult to spot and are certainly unlikely to be highlighted by the vendor or his solicitor . |