Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " .
4 They may be aroused sexually by the naked bodies they wash and care for .
5 Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series .
6 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 .
7 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
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The details of this will be explained fully in the next chapter .
12 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 .
13 On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party .
14 The system of Heliopolis can be traced back to the Second and Third Dynasties .
15 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 .
16 history The Treasury can be traced back to the eleventh century whereas the Department of the Environment was created in 1970 .
17 The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) .
18 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 .
19 However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Their regulation can be traced back to the thirteenth century and subsequent legislation such as that of 1697 — ‘ An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock brokers ’ .
23 The family , which can be traced back to the thirteenth century , lived at the manor of Cavendish Overhall , Suffolk , until the house and lands were sold in 1596 by William Cavendish , Michael 's eldest brother .
24 As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state .
25 There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years .
26 The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 ’ .
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