Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 2 | Stage I sleep is defined in terms of the EEG and EOG records as consisting of a low voltage EEG with some slow activity , and occasional vertex sharp waves , and slow rolling eye movements ( see example . ) |
| 3 | Recall was scored in terms of the number of ideas expressed in the passage which a subject was able to remember . |
| 4 | Miller ( 1951 ) states that " the information we convey is coded into patterns of words . |
| 5 | Now they import flax , mainly from Scandinavia , and much of the cloth they weave is made from mixtures of flax or cotton and artificial fibres such as nylon , Terylene and Acrilan . |
| 6 | It is possible to consider a situation where most franchises remain being run by groups of B R managers and a few franchises are run by private sector companies . |
| 7 | For example , symptom diaries that have been completed in blocks of different coloured ink arouse a suspicion that the patient may have been completing the diary in blocks of days rather than daily . |
| 8 | About 4000 meteorite fragments have been collected from expanses of bare ice measuring about 4000 sq . |
| 9 | However a number of these studies have been based on percentages of graduates , rather than all those who had originally entered the degree programmes . |
| 10 | None of these clinical symptoms , which have been recognised as symptoms of primary HIV infection , differed between drug users who seroconverted and those who were negative for HIV . |
| 11 | France and Italy have been cited as examples of countries in which the maintenance of group and individual integrity is stressed in both the general culture and in political life . |
| 12 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 13 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 14 | Similar differences in relative risks between young and old have been observed in studies of other risk factors for coronary heart disease . |
| 15 | In Darlington applications have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks . |
| 16 | Letters have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks . |
| 17 | Roderick believes that women obviously have a head start as they have been reared with values of nurturing , partnership and growth . |
| 18 | Women have been neglected in studies of the transition to retirement even though the proportion of women participating in the labour force , and therefore undergoing retirement from paid employment in their own right , has been growing steadily — an example of the patriarchal construction of retirement both in practice and in policy analysis and research . |
| 19 | The front pages of official newspapers have been filled with tales of glorious national triumphs , offset by with a smattering of gloom from the West — unemployment in the US , drugs in Britain , and so on . |
| 20 | Researchers , however , have been troubled by questions of sampling and by the extent to which the writers ' self-consciousness of their mission affects the data . |
| 21 | The early hill forts have been studied by waves of archaeologists almost as numerous as their early invaders . |
| 22 | Reactive oxygen species have been implicated as mediators of inflammation in ulcerative colitis . |
| 23 | CYTOPLASMICALLY inherited microorganisms are widespread in insects and have been implicated as causes of female parthenogenesis ( females developing from unfertilized eggs ) and cytoplasmic incompatibility . |
| 24 | Several substances have been implicated in cases of SBS , and modern chemical methods may detect them , even in very low concentrations ( but this is rarely cheap ! ) |
| 25 | These things have been achieved by teams of people from different departments working closely together day in , day our . |
| 26 | Mercurian surface temperatures have been determined from observations of thermal radiation from the planet 's surface . |
| 27 | The occupants of the car have been named as members of the Flannery and Warmington families from Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
| 28 | Derived from the above is the transverse Young 's modulus and Poisson 's ratio in the transverse plane These formulae and some others have been compared with measurements of the elastic moduli of a block copolymer showing hexagonal symmetry ( Arridge & Folkes 1972 ) . |
| 29 | There is nothing more I can do to help them , nor can they collect any low-preference votes that may have been given to them by voters whose higher-preference votes have been given to candidates of other parties . |
| 30 | Traditionally children with special educational needs have been seen in terms of a deficit model — just as disruptive children have . |