Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 3 | Many teenagers feel embarrassed when asked to sing , and few adults are heard singing around the house or whistling on street corners . |
| 4 | The avoidance of such fluctuations was considered desirable not only as a first stage in monetary union but also for the smooth operation of the Common Agricultural Policy , since food prices are calculated according to the exchange value of member currencies . |
| 5 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 6 | Discounts are calculated according to who is resident in a dwelling , and ’ resident ’ means having one 's sole or main residence there — a concept not unfamiliar to Labour Members . |
| 7 | Full-time fees for students are calculated according to total parental income . |
| 8 | Fees for investment business certificates are calculated according to the number of principals in an MNP or directors and shareholders in an RB . |
| 9 | In a three-variable table with one response variable and two explanatory variables , the proportions are calculated to sum to 1 within each of the cells formed by the categories of the explanatory variables . |
| 10 | Those who exercise power or authority over others typically claim legitimacy for doing so , ie that their position and actions are justified according to recognised principles . |
| 11 | Whether the cries of anguish for 1991 alone are justified remains to be seen . |
| 12 | The colour you are assigned arises from your position in the draw , but this may change from round to round , so do n't go to the same position as you went to previously . |
| 13 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 14 | Since inversion of the writing hand has been hypothesised to correlate with reduced lateralisation of brain functions it would be expected that there is a relation between inversion and familial sinistrality which also appears to relate , albeit inconsistently , to reduced perceptual asymmetries . |
| 15 | Accidentals are placed according to the emotional needs of the melody itself . |
| 16 | The positions Into which seasonal workers are placed tend to be relatively unskilled ones demanding little or no previous experience . |
| 17 | In brief , it seems that stresses are altered according to context : we need to be able to explain how and why this happens , but this is a difficult question and one for which we have only partial answers . |
| 18 | There is no place ‘ there ’ for the values the Tehuana dress represents , its folds are given meaning by Kahlo 's search for a cultural identity . |
| 19 | It is n't as pretty as we are given to understand in fairy tales . ’ |
| 20 | Black minorities have frequently been casualties of rules and procedures which may not have been intended to discriminate against them but which , in effect , do so and there is considerable resistance when the hitherto taken-for-granted procedures are brought into question . |
| 21 | The contention being that , as regards companies , the statute can not have been intended to apply to them if they are non-resident , one asks immediately — why not ? |
| 22 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 23 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 24 | Mont St Michel is known to have been disputed between Brittany and Normandy at about this date , and Robert 's fleet may from the first have been intended to operate against it and the Bretons . |
| 25 | They 're protesting at what they see as discrimination in the way they are treated compared with their European colleagues . |
| 26 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 27 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 28 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 29 | In goodwill tours of the Six Counties he has been heard to ask for alcohol-free lager and other exotic drinks . |
| 30 | Many tales have been recorded of descendants of Irish families who have died far across the seas , just as a banshee has been heard to wail outside their birthplace in Ireland . |