Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Often in the initial stages of database development new keywords can be suggested by the materials being indexed or particular design features may need to be altered once the information can be viewed on screen or in a print-out .
2 The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way .
3 It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water .
4 Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. announced that for reasons to be given later the court would order that W. be transferred to the proposed specialist unit and there receive treatment without her consent .
5 For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake .
6 Turning to the final point of the 1952 directive , it is noteworthy that ministers are to be given only the information MI5 decides they need .
7 The sheer volume of insignia required for public services means that insignia can be given only the appearance of precious metals .
8 The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago .
9 A new government would only be formed once the constitution was in place .
10 Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment .
11 Because of its major 3rd ( as opposed to the conventional ♭3 found in a normal phrygian mode ) this scale has a very Spanish/Classical flavour and can be heard quite a lot during the solos on the track Surfing With The Alien .
12 Every building has a shrine at which offerings must be placed twice a day .
13 Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside .
14 Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music .
15 Although a sequential file using a record storage format in which keys are separate from data can also skip records , every key has to be checked so every track has to be traversed , whether any records on it are required or not .
16 I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit .
17 You will be taught how the archaeologist and historian work together to investigate and piece together the evidence .
18 At this point , the chairman of the governors suggests that the job should be redefined so the post is offered to Valerie Way and was recorded in the sub-committee 's minutes in the following terms :
19 If they could be spaced out a bit , then it would probably be easier and less likely to be trouble .
20 If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores .
21 They apply in cases of ( a ) inadvertence , ( b ) misadventure and ( c ) death , and empower licences to be granted to the parties in possession of the premises and objections to be considered whereby an objector himself or his representatives if he is deceased in such cases at an adjourned meeting .
22 By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression .
23 It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity .
24 If the input data specifies that the structure is NOT to be modified then the user 's log file is closed and processing terminates .
25 A resolution of 22 March 1792 provided for the erection of temporary stabling for 50 horses , to which were to be added later a lecture theatre and a dissecting room .
26 For instance I have increased the skimmed milk allowance from 4 ounces to 10 ounces per day and I have allowed red meat to be included twice a week .
27 But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there .
28 Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner .
29 ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’
30 Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress .
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