Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corollary is seen where alien plants , contrary to expectation , appear to oust native plants in species-rich environments , where every ‘ niche ’ would appear to have been filled by species evolving more or less in situ to fit those environmental factors . |
| 2 | All the broken down buildings have gone , existing businesses have been hidden from 125mph prying eyes and replaced with pleasant trees and shrubs . |
| 3 | Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks . |
| 4 | No prisoner touches mail before it 's been examined by staff . |
| 5 | The indirect costs of two children over the mother 's lifetime are calculated at £135 000 . |
| 6 | The bream appear to be ravenous as they recover from spawning activities and have been joined by tench , carp and roach to give several outstanding catches . |
| 7 | Results are given as means of six rats per group with standard errors . |
| 8 | It is also useful to demonstrate the choice you are given for data entry in many Windows boxes . |
| 9 | Details of where they can be obtained are given on p. 146 . |
| 10 | further details are given on p. 76 . |
| 11 | Sizes are given in kb . |
| 12 | R is the length of the radius of the Earth on the scale of the map and latitude and longitude are given in radians. 360° equals 2 radians , and so /4 radians in the equation for y is equal to 45° . |
| 13 | The budget in the table assumes the cost of sow huts , water and fencing , tractor and trailer have all been amortised at 13% over five years . |
| 14 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 15 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 16 | Langbaurgh 's budget has been limited to £16.5m which will mean a reduction in poll tax bills of £18 a head . |
| 17 | The price of places has been limited to £10 . |
| 18 | The excess has been altered from 2% of the building value of 1% where accidental damage cover is included to a fixed sum of £1,000 each and every claim . |
| 19 | The most common circumstance in which human swimmers are poisoned by fish is when a well camouflaged stingray is trodden on . |
| 20 | They have been treated as people who did not know what they were doing , have made some terrible mistake and are wasting their lives . |
| 21 | Yesterday relatives of Charles Prattley told a coroner they were disgusted by the way he had been treated by staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 22 | Even if the saithe has been reared on salmon pellets , I am sure the young ‘ rain goose ’ wo n't mind . |
| 23 | A point for potential investors to note is that funds raised by a company during any 12 month period under the BES are limited to £750,000 . |
| 24 | British newspaper groups , satellite-television firms and companies owning radio stations are limited to 20% holdings . |
| 25 | Some types allow full freedom in pitch and roll , but older instruments are limited to 60° pitch and 90° roll . |
| 26 | A rate for an experienced expert for , say , 1990 might have been typified by £60 and for 1993 by £90 . |
| 27 | And I think just as erm students of education draw , are taught by people from physics and mathematics and erm chemistry , just to take three examples right across the University , so several of us , in fact , do quite a lot of teaching in other areas of the University . |
| 28 | Although the city compares favourably with other parts of Brazil in socioeconomic terms , there are areas of great poverty , particularly in favelas , many of which are inhabited by people moving from the countryside because of lack of employment and inequalities in land tenure . |
| 29 | If proper attention is paid to ensure that the entry grades are filled by staff who have good qualifications and potential , then internal promotees will be found more easily . |
| 30 | Any spare spaces available on courses for its own advice workers are filled by people from outside and this helps provide additional professional stimulation for its trainers . |