Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 2 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 4 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 5 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 6 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 7 | But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations . |
| 8 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 9 | Where it was found that middle peasants had been encroached upon , where it was found that middle peasants had been dispossessed erm that position would be rectified and that would be given back to middle peasants . |
| 10 | And if you 're building a long flight , it can always be broken up with separate landings , either where the flight changes direction , or just for a change of pace . |
| 11 | The slick as a whole is too large to be broken up with chemical dispersal agents , which in any case can have damaging effects on marine life , particularly fish . |
| 12 | They must never be broken up for short-term gain . |
| 13 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |
| 14 | He showed how music could flow through a scene and not be broken up into short numbers which encouraged the audience to applaud each time . |
| 15 | Although most departments have drawn up plans , many areas of departmental work can not easily be broken down into discrete cost centres . |
| 16 | For internal management control purposes a annual budget will normally be broken down into discrete quarterly , monthly or even shorter periods . |
| 17 | It is likely too that non-manufacturing activities need to be broken down into major cost-driver categories . |
| 18 | To be useful , crime rates must be broken down into specific categories of offences . |
| 19 | The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . |
| 20 | Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence . |
| 21 | The broad Shetlander identity can also be broken down into various sorts of identities . |
| 22 | True , the STV may as we have just seen be broken down into unpredictable fractions if the senatorial rules are applied . |
| 23 | The whole electoral roll could be broken down into sub groups and the linking feature was the post code — all speakers stressed the importance of capturing this particular piece of information from customers and respondents to questionnaires . |
| 24 | Each priority will have to be broken down into manageable tasks and the methods for carrying them out and reviewing them identified . |
| 25 | The basic principle of the UGIX design is that in order to make a GIS easy to use the process of making a database enquiry , plotting a map or carrying out spatial analysis must be broken down into manageable parts , linked by a pathway for the user to follow . |
| 26 | This breadth of preparing for and following up a development plan should then , suggests the Project Team , be broken down into detailed action plans with specific targets for the following year . |
| 27 | Ideally the calculations for increased prices should be broken down into different categories of material and related to the number of volumes purchased by the library in each of these categories . |
| 28 | Big organic molecules , and especially the nucleic acids of which genes are made ( see p 5 ) , are liable to be broken down by high-energy radiation , and in particular by the ultraviolet ( W ) light that is a component of sunlight . |
| 29 | Can class barriers be broken down by educational reform ? |
| 30 | Terracotta pots should be propped up on small blocks to aid drainage and prevent ants infesting the compost . |