Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner . |
| 2 | All these operations should be carried out in a fume cupboard as the vapours are harmful , and surgical gloves should be used to protect the hands from the dye . |
| 3 | All operations involving HF should be carried out in a fume cupboard , and the operator protected with gloves and goggles . |
| 4 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |
| 5 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 6 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that reform of the common agricultural policy must be carried out in a way which ensures that there is no discrimination against farmers in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 9 | The jokes could be played out in a fully contemporary setting and could often concern the adventures of very ordinary downtrodden men . |
| 10 | But the referendum plan could be swallowed up in a swamp of indifference — a Russian television opinion poll yesterday showed only 34 per cent of those questioned would take part . |
| 11 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 12 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 13 | They would be in favour of it if it could be worked out in a practical form : but it did not mean they were going to give up the freedom of the seas . |
| 14 | What are the advantages of implementing the control unit of a processor by microprogramming , Wilkes ( 1951 ) introduced the concept as a means by which the design and implementation of a control unit could be carried out in a Systematic and logical manner ; this advantage is a Particularly valuable one today , when uniform electronic layouts are well suited to the technology of LSI . |
| 15 | Below was a boot containing a folding camp bed of polished steel ‘ of commodious size with a tester-top and on castors ’ and so constructed that it ‘ could be folded up in a minute . ’ |
| 16 | The way that we 've found it in this this year 's Liberal Democrat Conference was to actually put forward the suggestion that Regional Government could be brought in in a flexible sense . |
| 17 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 18 | Rural housing had been the first to receive attention because it could be regarded as the responsibility of each landowner ; but the housing in towns was literally nobody 's business and could pass unnoticed , just as factory hands could be laid off in a recession , as farming labourers with tied cottages could not . |
| 19 | They 'd be taken up in a trainer plane by a pilot who had survived the Battle of Britain and , as Len put it , was zonked out with combat . |
| 20 | Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug . |
| 21 | These facts may be put out in a table thus : |
| 22 | In the long term , there has been a gradual but clearly identifiable change in the attitude of British business since the Second World War , which may be summed up in a single word : management . |
| 23 | This process of identification and analysis may be carried out in a number of ways , for instance : * by Using intuition based upon an interpretation of existing knowledge of the market ; * by Using any of the wide array of market research techniques , based on internal sources of information about the market , and field research . |
| 24 | No links need be set up in a relational database between relations . |
| 25 | Up to 21,000 reservists would be called up in a countrywide security crackdown , he said . |
| 26 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 27 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 28 | Thus the dark matter would be spread around in a way that mimicked but exaggerated the initial fluctuations . |
| 29 | The girl was nervous , as any girl would be starting out in a new place , with strangers . |
| 30 | The details would be spelled out in a White Paper due out in the autumn . |