Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centres of our old cities have been ripped apart to make way for it . |
| 2 | Two years have been set aside to allow time to study a period of History in sufficient depth . |
| 3 | The existence of these two adversaries reflecting incompatible interests poses practical problems for the water authorities , for while they have been established ostensibly to advance environmentalist values , and serve as a concrete expression of the belief that intervention is proper and necessary ( for which they have been equipped with the criminal law ) , they find that their legitimacy as enforcement agencies is sometimes questionable . |
| 4 | The biological corollary of this is that blocking antibodies against ICAM-1 have been shown effectively to prevent allograft rejection . |
| 5 | Long term oral propranolol treatment or repeated endoscopic injection sclerotherapy are similarly effective in reducing rebleeding that still occurs in up to 60% of patients and neither have been shown consistently to improve survival . |
| 6 | Using interference filters these instruments have been used successfully to measure fluorescence . |
| 7 | Two indices have been used here to compare preservation of postcrania to crania . |
| 8 | Marine algal blooms , previously thought to act as a carbon sink , have been found actually to produce carbon dioxide , thereby potentially adding to the greenhouse effect . |
| 9 | The awards , which have been designed specifically to commend excellence within newspaper publishing , were organised by Newspaper Focus magazine . |
| 10 | Proposals have been put forward to control use of the river . |
| 11 | In a report prepared by the tax consultants Moret Ernst and Young for the Department of Culture in The Netherlands , proposals have been put forward to lower VAT charges on income generated by the arts from the standard rate of 18.5% to a new lower rate of 6% . |