Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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Jan. 30 that tactical nuclear weapons located in all former Soviet republics , except Ukraine and Byelarus , would be withdrawn to Russia by July . |
| 2 | Now , less than 12 months later we are told it is to be withdrawn on February 23 . |
| 3 | 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former Soviet Union by Germany , for resettling on its territory some of the former Soviet servicemen who were to be withdrawn from Germany by 1994 [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 4 | Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 . |
| 5 | Russian troops were to be withdrawn from Manchuria . |
| 6 | American and Russian armed forces would have to be withdrawn from Korea as soon as possible and within three months of a Korean government being formed . |
| 7 | In response to the Sept. 11 announcement by the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that 11,000 Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from Cuba , an editorial in the official Communist party newspaper Granma declared that the decision had been " unilateral " , had broken historical and legitimate bilateral accords and was the equivalent of giving a " green light " to the United States to carry out " aggressive plans against Cuba " . |
| 8 | BRITISH troops should be withdrawn from Bosnia by November and replaced by other United Nations forces , the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , indicated yesterday . |
| 9 | In fact , for every new warhead introduced with cruise missiles , a warhead will be withdrawn from NATO 's existing inventory on top of the withdrawal of 1000 warheads that the |
| 10 | Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu stated that , if the peace talks progressed satisfactorily , all of the 800 troops and riot police currently deployed in Bougainville would be withdrawn by March 16 . |
| 12 | Power Now , and the Intel Pentium , will be highlighted at Cebit in Germany this week . |
| 13 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 14 | In spite of the mixed feelings that will undoubtedly be provoked on Tuesday night , Hamnett 's move should be assessed in a cooler and more general light . |
| 15 | The first kinase to be implicated in LTP was the Ca 2+ /phospholipid-dependent protein kinase ( PKC ) r78–80 . |
| 16 | In some cases it is , if one is to retain the historical character of the religion , impossible : for example the fact can not be altered of Jesus having been a male human being . |
| 17 | Why should the expression of these carbonhydrate antigens in biliary epithelium be altered in PSC ? |
| 18 | The memory loss we all begin to experience with age may result from a similar impairment of the cholinergic system , which may also be altered in Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 19 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 20 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 21 | Another of these stray Carthaginians who wandered between Greece and Rome in the second century B.C. is probably to be recognized in Procles , son of Eucrates , a Carthaginian , whom Pausanias quotes twice . |
| 22 | The distinctive style of the modeller James Shruder , who was in his employment in 1751 and sorted out his estate , can be recognized in De Lamerie 's output from the 1730s , as can that of Charles Frederick Kandler I. |
| 23 | According to a timetable finalized the following month , the constitution would be amended by April 1991 and multiparty elections would be held in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 24 | A plan approved by councillors in the Labour-run south London borough requires material issued by its fostering and adoption unit to be amended by June to affirm the eligibility of ‘ gay men and lesbians as foster carers/adopters ’ . |
| 25 | The Alliance is confident that existing Czech software legislation will be amended in June , with new laws being based on the recommendations of European Community directives . |
| 26 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 27 | In a paper to the Channel Tunnel conference Derek Bateman , the chair of the Inter-Association Public Transport Forum , urged authorities to remember that ‘ Bath will be competing with Baden Baden ’ and ‘ Blackpool … with Benidorm ’ . |
| 28 | DeNiro 's also rumoured to be competing with James Woods for the villain role in Rob Reiner 's film version of the Broadway smash A Few Good Men . |
| 29 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 30 | TEAMS will be competing in Cleveland county stadium 's first ever It 's a Knockout event on Mothers ' Day . |