Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Close work is not in itself detrimental to sight and need not be discouraged , but it should be undertaken in a comfortable position and with appropriate task lighting . |
| 32 | A peer review of the outcomes of the enquiry will be undertaken by a working conference of informed critics whose observations will be incorporated into the final presentation of results early in 1990 |
| 33 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 34 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 35 | These arrangements for review of the procedures were strongly condemned by the Opposition which argued that the monitoring function should be undertaken by a Select Committee of the House of Commons which would ‘ oversee the work of any person responsible for , or making use of , the interception of communications ’ . |
| 36 | It is clear that the role need not always be undertaken by a social worker , but it also seems clear that in situations of family complexity , or personal loss of morale , social workers have particular skills to offer . |
| 37 | If you feel like showing me a few pages in a day or two , I would be pleased , and I 'm sure your other readers out there would be fascinated by a full autobiography . |
| 38 | Brian Puddicombe , from the Banking Insurance and Finance Union 's NatWest Committee , told the union 's annual conference in Llandudno , Gwynedd : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that people should be sacked as a direct result of being sick . ’ |
| 39 | As the eager spectators applauded , and their cheers echoed around the field at Louis Paulhan 's success , how could anyone imagine that in just nine years time the Atlantic Ocean would be conquered by a young man in the crowd . |
| 40 | Throughout the nineteenth century , the Newtonian paradigm was governed by an assumption something like , ‘ The whole of the physical world is to be explained as a mechanical system operating under the influence of various forces according to the dictates of Newton 's laws of motion ’ , and the Cartesian programme in the seventeenth century involved the principle , ‘ There is no void and the physical universe is a big clockwork in which all forces take the form of a push ’ . |
| 41 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 42 | The reasons for a separation and its temporary nature can be explained to a ten-year-old child , so that anxiety can again be minimised . |
| 43 | In circumstances which must be explained at a later stage the appeal is before the Board both by leave of the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong and by special leave granted by the Board itself . |
| 44 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 45 | It is not to deny that some culturally elaborated behaviour can usefully be explained from a biological perspective . |
| 46 | The problem is that impressions and attitudes are very vague things , and can not be explained by a traditional approach to communication , which assumes that the hearer 's task in utterance interpretation is to identify a proposition or set of propositions specifically intended by the speaker together with the speaker 's attitude towards those propositions . |
| 47 | Secondly , although the integral values of the Hall resistivity at the plateaux can be explained by a simple theory that glosses over many of the complications of real inversion layers , nobody expects such outstandingly good agreement , better than 1 part per million , with a theory so coarse . |
| 48 | This difference can not be explained by a higher level of prosecutions for regulatory offences . |
| 49 | Such questions as these receive quite disparate answers , ranging from claims that all these legal practices can be explained by a new principle , such as the protection of reliance , through to denials that anything significant has happened . |
| 50 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 51 | The high prices for such things could only be explained by a separate blurb which claimed meat from ‘ English rare breeds ’ and a lot of stuff about natural rearing and hand finishing ( a bonus , I pointed out to my guest , a Texan with special interests in T.S . |
| 52 | These observations can be explained by a modest increase of temperature with depth , the material becoming very plastic , perhaps partially molten , beyond about 800 km . |
| 53 | This effect can not merely be explained by a conceivable depletion of TBP , because transcription of the classical pol III genes requires only a very low amount of TBP ( 6 ; and our own unpublished results ) , the presence of which could be verified by western-blot analysis of hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC containing fractions used for the assay ( our unpublished results ) . |
| 54 | He asks if the redshift of distant galaxies could not be explained by a universal contraction towards a point which is , as yet , beyond our observational limits . |
| 55 | The Royal College of Physicians has gone on record as stating that ‘ there are reasonable grounds for the statement that , in genetically susceptible persons , large bowel cancer could be favoured by a fibre-depleted diet ’ . |
| 56 | Unless a watercourse is very small or the pollutant particularly powerful , the natural processes of dilution and purification will often make it very difficult for either proactive or reactive discovery to reveal the existence of pollution soon enough and in sufficient detail for it to be traced to a particular discharger . |
| 57 | Faults can range from the merely inconvenient , when water spills out of sagging or blocked gutters on to unsuspecting people underneath , to the more serious problem of penetrating damp , where peeling decorations and damp patches inside the house can often be traced to a leaking gutter or downpipe outside . |
| 58 | In every one of the cases to which your Lordships have been referred where such dicta appear , the source from which the evidence sought to be excluded had been obtained has been the defendant himself or ( in some of the search cases ) premises occupied by him ; and the dicta can be traced to a common ancestor in Lord Goddard 's statement in Kuruma v. The Queen [ 1955 ] A.C. 197 which I have already cited . |
| 59 | Some of the themes in the Babylonian story — in particular , man 's place as a substitute worker — can be traced in a Sumerian poem , Enki and Ninmakh , written before 2,000 BC . |
| 60 | The dog had a metallic collar which could be traced by a hand-held detector , operated by the men on the surface . |