Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , the phonemes are blended together to produce the spoken response .
2 An animal model of colitis , however , has been developed recently using the free radical initiator , 2,2'-azobis(2-amidinopropane) dihydrochloride and trinitrobenzene sulphonic acid , which also induces colitis experimentally and is metabolised to superoxide and hydrogen peroxide by rat colon homogenates or isolated colonocytes .
3 In contrast , where calculations are carried out to assess the comparative importance of differences in reproductive success versus survival for each sex , only variation in mate number may be included ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) — though measures of the intensity of sexual selection as conceived by Darwin should also include variation due to differences in mate quality , which may be an important cause of variation in lifetime breeding success both among males and females in monogamous species .
4 All successful applicants attend an initial induction day with the company at their Ewell headquarters , where a series of assessments are carried out to ensure the right people are recruited for the right job .
5 The borders vary in width , and are designed specially to create the main impact in the room .
6 ‘ We ca n't have him dying of thirst before his flesh has been mortified enough to appease the Dark Ones , ’ said Wiggs .
7 The difficulty is that Maastricht could not have been rolled away to leave the open-market EC that was being built beforehand .
8 Has an exercise been carried out to assess the required nursing establishment for the whole of the service provided by the health authority ?
9 Encouraging experiments have been carried out utilizing the special skills of social workers ( Cooper et al. 1974 ; Shepherd et al. 1979 ) , clinical psychologists ( Johnston 1978 ; Robson et al. 1984 ) , and marriage guidance counsellors ( Marsh and Barr 1975 ; Cohen and Halpern 1978 ) working in general practice to provide help for patients with social problems .
10 The singing is always very fine and full bodied , although I feel that the chance has been missed occasionally to drop the dynamic level to the point where hairs are raised .
11 The current practices , both those of manual and CAD drafting , are seen only to record the geometric entities and not their function .
12 It has been decided not to grade the National Certificate ( level I ) , at least to begin with .
13 If they are to avoid falling into the theoretical machinery that perpetuates such stereotypes , women are obliged constantly to dodge the conceptual apparatuses that seek to mould their language .
14 True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home .
15 The Labour vote has declined because Liverpool people are fed up paying the highest poll tax in the country for a lor ra lor ra people who wo n't pay .
16 These articles are written primarily to discuss the mathematical education of young children , but it is necessary , firstly , to see education in a wider social context .
17 In the light of the misunderstandings and bitterness which can affect all the parties involved in an industrial dispute , it is perhaps regrettable that no attempt has been made adequately to define the legal rights of workers involved in such disputes .
18 But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail .
19 He had been seen earlier dodging the massed constabulary around the Winter Gardens , thrusting Labour press releases into the hands of reporters queuing for their body searches and radar scans .
20 ‘ I know someone has to do it , love , ’ he stated sensitively , ‘ but I 'm not sure that you 're cut out to handle the sad side of a vet 's business . ’
21 The INLA has also revamped in the past two months and is posing a new threat in North Belfast , where 80 RUC officers have been drafted in to halt the escalating spiral of violence .
22 Fowler had been told not to press the old man , but the parentage of Cissie 's baby had been the cause of much of the gossip .
23 If our oil revenues are used merely to pay the unemployed , who now cost an estimated £18,000 million each year , the burden to those in work will suddenly increase by this amount when the oil revenues cease .
24 Hospitality : More beds are needed especially to accommodate the German team on Thursday , Friday and Saturday nights , and a few for Friday night only for long distance Medau performers — please ask in your classes ( ten mile radius from Croydon or along the route from Dover preferred ) and send offers to .
25 The curtains have been drawn aside to reveal the female subject as she speaks , writes , paints — making and doing , in the original Greek sense of poiein , from which we derive ‘ poet ’ .
26 A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there .
27 Quadrats of a large scale had been used before to determine the precise range of various species , but Clements and Pound marked off small areas , often only a metre square , so that every plant of every species could be identified .
28 It has also been shown how to analyse the significant factors relevant to competitive position in each SBU .
29 The data have been verified immunohistochemically using the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 to show a reduction in the labelling index .
30 Two years since publishing Succeeding in the 90s , the Society 's strategy plan for the decade , the economy has entered a deep recession , and more difficult and challenging times than could have been envisaged now face the whole profession .
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