Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nightmares can perhaps better be defined in terms of the emotions they evoke , rather than any particular subject-matter .
2 With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order .
3 Do n't stuff yourself with doughnuts or chocolate , or anything to which you are unaccustomed , or indeed anything to which you are accustomed but which you might suddenly be tempted to gorge in distorted amounts .
4 Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ?
5 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English .
6 In the first place , as knowledge of the syntax , phonology and semantics of various languages has increased , it has become clear that there are specific phenomena that can only naturally be described by recourse to contextual concepts .
7 This fact must obviously be taken into account in the interpretation of raised beaches .
8 Its content will obviously be considered in relation to the ward learning objectives .
9 It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while .
10 Where administrators might justly be accused of partiality in land questions , however , was in cases involving the relations of the Masai with other tribes .
11 Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors .
12 Reference will constantly be made to sections of this Act .
13 It is a sadly neglected work , and again the only serious alternative to Järvi is Stravinsky 's Chicago recording which like the Jeu can only be obtained as part of a mammoth 22-CD Sony set of virtually all Stravinsky 's major works ( totally indispensable though that is ) .
14 Treatment for Thrush can only be obtained on prescription from your doctor or clinic .
15 The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 .
16 This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information .
17 Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed .
18 Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types .
19 Conclusive evidence for the occurrence of arrested larval development can only be obtained by examination of the worm population in the host .
20 Please note that tickets for Event 16 can only be obtained in advance from York Music Centre .
21 for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court .
22 At this point optimism makes way for a new kind of awareness , tragic awareness , which can only be borne through art in the shape of myth .
23 Opinion on an individual 's functioning can only be given to others with that person 's consent .
24 But suppose now we require that adequate grammatical descriptions include specifications of the meaning of every word in a language , and such a requirement has normally been assumed , then we find words whose meaning-specifications can only be given by reference to contexts of usage .
25 All response to tracheal suctioning ceases with this dose , so it should only be given after consultation with senior medical staff .
26 Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates .
27 HIV can only be transmitted between men through blood and cum .
28 Once assumed , the title could only be renounced in return for the most substantial concessions , and as long as Edward called himself Ring of France he could pose , with some success , as an alternative government to the Valois monarchy .
29 From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories .
30 And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent .
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