Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 2 | The problem of computer-related crime will be highlighted today in the Law Commission 's report on Computer Misuse . |
| 3 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 4 | It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote . |
| 5 | In favourable cases the latter may each be recognized embryologically by the presence of ( i ) a pair of hollow mesodermal somites , ( ii ) paired neuromeres ( embryonic ganglia ) , and ( iii ) paired appendages . |
| 6 | Pin the front flap ( the one with the chain cast off ) around the front V of the garment , allowing the chain edge to be eased neatly beneath the V shape in the band . |
| 7 | No fast should be undertaken against an opponent ; it should be undertaken rather for the good of those near and dear to the person who fasts . |
| 8 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 9 | ‘ The achievements will be rent asunder by the Government 's ill-informed proposals , ’ said Councillor Keith Geddes . |
| 10 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 11 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 12 | This will be explained later in the story . |
| 13 | This growth of manufacturing employment can be explained partly by the quality of rural environment and partly by the changing structure of manufacturing . |
| 14 | Or again , can the bias against left-handedness be explained apart from the fact that most people are right-handed ? |
| 15 | The trace-element fractionations can not , however , be explained simply as the product of small degrees of partial melting in areas of thicker lithosphere . |
| 16 | This correlation , however , can be explained simply by the presence of absence of H pylori in their patient group and does not provide evidence of a causal association between H pylori ammonia production and gastritis . |
| 17 | For example , the concentration of crime in the lower social class , which was the starting point for all the main sociological theories , could be explained simply by the fact that members of the lower social class were more likely to be selected for labelling . |
| 18 | This phenomenon could be explained simply by the fact that the stiffness of A-tracts and not just curvature influences the electrophoretic behaviour as was previously suggested ( 8,9 ) . |
| 19 | The comparative absence of protest in the fifteenth century may be explained simply by the fact that depopulation was less of a social problem , and that if a lord evicted tenants , they still had a reasonable prospect of finding land elsewhere . |
| 20 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 21 | In his Beverly Hills suit and hand-painted 1950s tie , Kaufman looked like a divorce lawyer in ‘ LA Law ’ ; his presence at the Tory Party 's autumn festival could be explained only by the need to earn a crust ; he had been invited by the BBC , no doubt , to comment on the proceedings . |
| 22 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 23 | We have thus established that PHB mobility in vivo can be explained solely on the basis of the intrinsic material properties of the polymer . |
| 24 | The reason for this can be traced historically to the fact that research on creativity in academic psychology has formed a quite separate strand of enquiry from that originating in the early pathographic analyses carried out by medical writers . |
| 25 | And on the ridge of this endless mountain chain runs this strange chasm , for the most part almost 7,000 feet deep , which can be traced right along the backbone . |
| 26 | The structured grid layout of this town can still be traced today in the St. Peter 's area of Stamford . |
| 27 | The results indicate problems for hearing people in using sign language effectively which might be traced directly to the problems of the language learning situation . |
| 28 | In the penny oracles of the press , however , there were bolder accusations as when The Daily Graphic ( 16 November 1900 ) confidently asserted that ‘ the pistol is the ideal weapon of the Hooligan … his love for it can be traced directly to the influence of the ‘ penny dreadfuls ' ’ ’ . |
| 29 | The next portion ( 11–14 ) can be traced directly to the lecture " Socrates and Tragedy " ( February 1870 ) , but the rest of the book ( 15–25 ) is a less tidy amalgam . |
| 30 | These conflicts , he contended , although highlighted in the differences between the Western Marxism of Lukács and the orthodoxy of Marxist-Leninism , could be traced back to the work of Marx himself . |