Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 2 | Here your lines should be fine , light and crisp and areas of colour must be blended carefully for a smooth result . |
| 3 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 4 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 5 | Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " . |
| 6 | In all these cases catalogues can be amended simply by a general notice explaining that the groups of materials have been moved to remote storage . |
| 7 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 8 | They may be aroused sexually by the naked bodies they wash and care for . |
| 9 | Pasture improvement can be undertaken either by the individual crofter , after obtaining the ‘ apportionment , , of his share of the common grazing , or on a township basis . |
| 10 | But bear in mind that interest rate hedging should not be undertaken lightly by the inexperienced , and then only to hedge an underlying cash position and not for speculation |
| 11 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 12 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 13 | This can be explained largely by the industrial and occupational distribution of the jobs which they have and by the overlap between part-time working and temporary working . |
| 14 | Still others have argued that women 's oppression in capitalist societies is to be explained primarily at the ideological level as a result of the prevailing conceptions of passive and dependent femininity . |
| 15 | In the case of France , also at the foot of the table , the low level of union membership may be explained partly by the deep-rooted ideological divisions within the fragmented trade union movement but more importantly , according to Clegg , because of the late development and lack of depth of collective bargaining whose regulatory effect has been relatively limited . |
| 16 | To Sulentic 's surprise , he has also found that the connection can be traced right into the central nucleus of NGC 43 19 — very much as we might expect if , as Arp has often suggested , high redshift objects are somehow shot out from the centres of otherwise normal galaxies . |
| 17 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 19 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 20 | Historians who have reconstructed the context of his trip have generally concluded that , far from being a momentary aberration , the Montreal speech was the culmination of a policy that can be traced back to the early 1960s . |
| 21 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 22 | Tory legal-constitutionalism was nothing new in the early eighteenth century — it is in evidence during the years of the Exclusion Crisis and Tory reaction , and its roots can be traced back to the Clarendonian position at the Restoration . |
| 23 | As Elcock ( 1986 , Chapter 9 ) points out , town and country , planning can be traced back to the Victorian era when enlightened industrialists sought to improve areas such as Bournville in Birmingham and Saltaire in West Yorkshire . |
| 24 | The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ . |
| 25 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 26 | In some of the large international companies this process of amalgamating mission and vision has already begun — though it can , of course be traced back to the philanthropic industrialists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | In reality , these devices are a form of laser whose development can be traced back to the post-war years and which have a wide range of applications beyond generating very high powers . |
| 28 | It is an idea — the idea that the practice of our art should ideally be an avocation rather than a vocation — which has a distinguished and ancient lineage , to be traced back through the English bourgeois idea of ‘ the gentleman ’ to the Italian aristocratic idea of ‘ the courtier ’ . |
| 29 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 30 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |