Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No farm worker welcomes the prospect of having to uproot his family should he , because he is ill , injured at work , made redundant , has achieved retirement or had a row with his boss , cease to be employed on the farm . |
| 2 | ‘ I never cease to be struck by the extraordinarily high performances individuals can turn in when faced with a challenge properly identified and given the means to deliver . |
| 3 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 4 | Moreover , as revealed by in situ hybridization analysis , the GGFs appear to be expressed in the nervous system during embryonic development . |
| 5 | They appear to be jammed against the adjacent cratonic block and are known as contracted continental-margin orogens . |
| 6 | The conditions for sustained growth outlined in the autumn statement appear to be based on the idea of a revival in consumer spending rather than an investment-led recovery . |
| 7 | The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old . |
| 8 | He was dismissed by the colonial secretary , Lord Stanley ( later fourteenth Earl of Derby , q.v. ) , despite acknowledgement that ‘ his efforts appear to be rewarded by the decline of crimes of violence and outrage and by the growth of humane and kindly feeling in the minds of persons under his care . ’ |
| 9 | In this sense , the ‘ rules ’ of grammar appear to be treated in the same way as ‘ laws ’ in the physical sciences . |
| 10 | As the guidance points out , ‘ there are occasions where objectivity may be threatened or appear to be threatened by the provision to an audit client of services other than the audit ’ . |
| 11 | The limp tunes appear to be played at the wrong speed , stretching them out until they become transparent and meaningless . |
| 12 | The cause in both cases appears to be the strength of catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist popular consciousness and the way in which the cultural and material interests of the subordinate classes appear to be represented by the alliances themselves and their institutions . |
| 13 | The superluminous masers are not well understood , but appear to be related to the mass outflow . |
| 14 | Many appear to be infected by the phocine distemper virus , which was blamed for the epidemic which afflicted dolphins in the North Sea in 1988 . |
| 15 | But such stated satisfactions and dissatisfactions appear to be segregated from the housewife 's general attitude to housework and the housewife role . |
| 16 | Structural differences in the brains of drone , worker and queen bees appear to be correlated with the degree of development of the special instincts and activities of the three forms . |
| 17 | Many of the benefits intended to flow from the implementation of Working for patients appear to be predicated on the assumption of an increase in the total volume of services provided . |
| 18 | Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) . |
| 19 | The arms : ( a ) the form of the tentacle pore ; ( b ) the number and shape of the arm spines , the degree of rugosity ; ( c ) the number and shape of the tentacle scales ; ( d ) whether the arm spines of the proximal joints meet midradially forming a fan when viewed transversely ; ( e ) often in outline the arms amy appear to be constricted between the rows of arm spines usually because the articulation areas are elevated . |
| 20 | All members of a particular society appear to be produced from the same mould . |
| 21 | For the key traditions of political theory , above all those of liberalism , pluralism and Marxism , appear to be exhausted in the face of major twentieth century developments . |
| 22 | Often the paintings appear to be signed on the reverse and occasionally a date is inscribed there also . |
| 23 | Mr Taylor will know the position and I still expect to be named in the squad on Tuesday . |
| 24 | If we accept that more of the caring is done by women the second problematic issue for family care of elderly people is the number of women who expect to be employed outside the home . |
| 25 | It states that : ‘ For certain meanings , there is a conventional form that speakers expect to be used in the language community . ’ |
| 26 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 27 | But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place |
| 28 | But the majority of the advantage I make , I want to be put into the . |
| 29 | ‘ Men want to be included in the great club of families . |
| 30 | They want to be degraded by the system and die in a pool of their own vomit in a motel , where rooms are rented by the hour to cowboys . |