Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mammals , about 50% of the carbohydrates consumed are normally oxidised to carbon dioxide and water to produce energy and about 30 to 40% are converted to fat . |
| 2 | A couple who bought a flat which did n't officially exist are still fighting for compensation four years later . |
| 3 | There has been no obtaining by deception . |
| 4 | The important work of the Transport Policy Committee , and of the Faculty of Freight , has been widely covered in Transport and at local and national CIT meetings , so needs no detailed report here . |
| 5 | The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions . |
| 6 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 7 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 8 | The concept of need has been widely used in practice and in social policy , and is a complex and confusing one ( Bradshaw , 1972 ) . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has been widely used in research laboratories , its clinical utility in chronic hepatitis C is not established . |
| 10 | The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process . |
| 11 | 12.2 The need for sound information has been well accepted in order that trends can be observed and judgements made in the light of these . |
| 12 | This has been well illustrated by section 76 of the Education Act 1944 , which provides that ‘ children are to be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents ’ , provided that this would be ‘ compatible with the provision of efficient instruction and training and the avoidance of unreasonable public expenditure ’ . |
| 13 | This proposal was enthusiastically approved by the Central Council of ACTS and has been well received by member churches which are appointing local representatives for each of the forty six areas . |
| 14 | This concept of selective insulin resistance is not new and has been well demonstrated in animal models . |
| 15 | The integrity of this method of labelling the meal has been well established by incubation of labelled scrambled egg with simulated gastric juice at 37°C and monitoring the rate of release of the label into the liquid phase . |
| 16 | The money raised by the event will help to rebuild the Children 's Hospital in Osijek , which has been badly damaged by shellfire . |
| 17 | The fact is your house has been badly damaged by fire . ’ |
| 18 | A block of residential flats at Elsfield near Oxford has been badly damaged by fire . |
| 19 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 20 | In recent years , the tribe has been badly affected by malaria , measles and other diseases brought in by prospecting miners , and by inroads into their traditional forest lands . |
| 21 | In other words , philosophy is just a certain type of writing in which the signifying element of language has been illusorily repressed in favour of the signified . |
| 22 | An example of this can be seen in the upper part of the Hauptdolomit in Schoonebeek-447 , where the porosity has been completely destroyed by vadose compaction and the sonic log as a typically serrated character ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 23 | One of the key priorities for Brazil is to develop primary care in a system which has been completely dominated by hospital based medicine . |
| 24 | ‘ The bridge has been completely rebuilt with greenheart hardwood and should last the railway for a long time . ’ |
| 25 | A prime example of this is a silver rams-horn presentation piece which , despite being dated 1905 ( outside the normal cut-off date of 1892 for the Fair ) , has been wholeheartedly accepted for exhibition . |
| 26 | the supplementary current cost information on page … has been properly prepared in accordance with the bases and methods described in note 2 . |
| 27 | The alternative strategy is to inform patients whether a given method of diagnosis or treatment has been properly tested for efficacy so that they can make an informed choice . |
| 28 | The drive towards greater State intervention and a more collectivist solution to the nation 's pre-war problems has been properly identified as part of the legacy of the ‘ people 's war ’ . |
| 29 | Their ‘ identical ’ progress has been closely monitored through schoolboy cricket . |
| 30 | In Australia a bus driver developed a type of lung cancer which has been closely associated with smoking , and he successfully sued his employers . |