Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [verb] [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 | Some of Weiss ’ processes appear to be operating in the hard-science fields also , but there are differences . |
| 6 | They appear to be jammed against the adjacent cratonic block and are known as contracted continental-margin orogens . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | In this sense , the ‘ rules ’ of grammar appear to be treated in the same way as ‘ laws ’ in the physical sciences . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | There are , however , a number of areas in which casualties appear to be moving against the downward trend . |
| 13 | The Government appear to be flying in the face of that report . |
| 14 | And this is just a continuation of that that prejudice against those that appear to be living off the state and not justifying their existence and I think it does n't deserve the time that we 've spent on it tonight . |
| 15 | The limp tunes appear to be played at the wrong speed , stretching them out until they become transparent and meaningless . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The superluminous masers are not well understood , but appear to be related to the mass outflow . |
| 18 | And not least because after an era of relative restraint in 15-cert films , we appear to be returning to the near glorification of casual sexual encounters . |
| 19 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But such stated satisfactions and dissatisfactions appear to be segregated from the housewife 's general attitude to housework and the housewife role . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Just like Leeds appear to be doing at the moment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All members of a particular society appear to be produced from the same mould . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Often the paintings appear to be signed on the reverse and occasionally a date is inscribed there also . |
| 30 | Mr Taylor will know the position and I still expect to be named in the squad on Tuesday . |