Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 2 | The origins of UAPT-Infolink plc can be traced back to a group of traders meeting in coffee houses to exchange their personal experience of bad debtors . |
| 3 | Almost the whole development of the law of trusts and its interpretation can be traced back to a combination of two factors : the slight respect of trusts for set legal form ; their independence from an heir and from the will . |
| 4 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 5 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 6 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 7 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 8 | Once he had returned the white card , a client 's name , address and phone number were Processed into a lead , which would then be given out to a dealer . |
| 9 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 10 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 11 | Of the longer term organizational trends that have developed within the travel industry , diversification needs to be broken down into a range of separate forms . |
| 12 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
| 13 | However , in all cases the instructions can be broken down into a sequence of primitive operations on the various parts of the processor , such as the accumulators , the adder and the program counter ; notice that some of these parts are not directly accessible to the programmer . |
| 14 | For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 . |
| 15 | Hierarchy presupposes an already determined outcome or purpose ; the underlying idea of hierarchy is that such an outcome can be broken down into a set of sub-processes . |
| 16 | And since complicated situations or statements can very easily be broken down into a set of simple statements , this in effect means that computers can store complex pieces of information too . |
| 17 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 18 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 19 | All extended proportional series can be broken down into a number of linear series of cells , as in figs. 5.6 and 5.7 , and this is the form in which we shall study them . |
| 20 | These five factors can in turn be broken down into a number of subsidiary aspects to produce a specific number of questions to be answered in identifying the likely longer-run attractiveness of the industry . |
| 21 | Using the technique of functional decomposition , a very complex problem can be broken down into a number of fairly complex parts and then further to less complex parts until , at the bottom level , all the parts are fairly trivial and therefore easy to understand . |
| 22 | These factors can be broken down into a number of sets for the purposes of different sections of the UCTA , and probably form the most useful framework under which to analyse its effect . |
| 23 | But since more complicated instructions can always be broken down into a collection of simple steps , this does n't matter either . |
| 24 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 25 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 26 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 27 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 28 | They took no notice of me ; they were creatures of the night , the air and the ocean , and I was only a piece of the land , meaningless , to be flown round like a boulder or a stump of wood . |
| 29 | If a mare is fit and healthy , with a normal oestrous cycle , there is no reason to suppose she will have problems in foaling , but it seems fair to suggest that teenage mares be checked out by a vet before you start working out names for the as-yet unconceived foal . |
| 30 | This is surprising since the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) has ruled in that the refusal to engage a pregnant woman and a dismissal on grounds of pregnancy are a form of direct discrimination covered by Council Directive 76/207/ EEC without the necessity to resort to comparisons with the treatment which would be meted out to a man in a comparable situation . |