Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the death or retirement of a Conservative Prime Minister made it necessary for a choice to be made by the Queen in accordance with the convention that the office should be filled by an incumbent most likely to command the support of a Commons majority . |
| 2 | In other cases , such as the Dead Sea Rift , there is a significant transform component in the extensional movement and this feature can in fact be regarded as a large pull-apart basin ( see Section 3.5 ) . |
| 3 | Schneider 's discussion of American kinship argues that the removal of the third party makes the continuation of the relationship voluntary : the divorced or widowed spouse of a blood relative will still be treated as a relative only if there is a continuing relationship in the qualitative sense 1968 , pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 4 | It was also announced that the country 's domestic defence industry was to be developed in the 1990s so that by the year 2000 it would be able to produce its own military aircraft , warships and submarines . |
| 5 | The free Trade Agreement will do the trick … a situation in which the old-fashioned Unionist intransigence which served Britain so well in the past will also be outdated as no longer so convenient to imperialism . |
| 6 | Larger parties of up to 100 persons will be considered for the 11.00 p.m. sitting . |
| 7 | ‘ We expect ’ , said a spokesperson ‘ that collaboration between ourselves and SCOTVEC officers will allow the criteria to be considered in a practical rather than theoretical manner and to highlight the importance of the range of monitoring processes , formal and informal , which operate in the time leading to the approval of a course ’ . |
| 8 | Linkages will be made to a wider context--notably the parallel experiences of marshland communities in the Low Countries and North-West Germany . |
| 9 | George concluded the evening — and successfully reclaimed his right to be seen as a sober enough man — by reciting ‘ The Bashful Wooer ’ from the works of one he announced as ‘ the greatest poet of Cumberland and Westmorland , a man living among us today , our own Robbie Burns — Robert Anderson of Carlisle … ’ |
| 10 | For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems . |
| 11 | It said all that needed to be said in a clear enough manner . |
| 12 | Anyone living in a house without a cat is likely to be visited by a stray sooner or later . |
| 13 | Love was something other , to be cultivated in an intense yet innocent fashion , to inspire deeds of gallantry and to transform the knight into a thinking , feeling being rather than one who picked up his sword without any forethought . |
| 14 | An analogy can be drawn to a human-being continually expending energy yet simultaneously absorbing life-force energy from the environment , which offsets the amount expended . |
| 15 | They glow in the dark so can be used as a practical yet fashionable way of making drivers aware of children in the dark . |
| 16 | 13 CARITA brass ball valves are available from the Office and these can be used on the white pimply Battel balls . |
| 17 | Here the material will be used in the spoken rather than written form and you may want to rephrase the information accordingly . |
| 18 | A deadlock can only be opened with a key so a thief can not smash a pane of glass and open the door ; or if he gets in through a window , he ca n't carry your property out through the door . |
| 19 | There are conceptual and methodological problems to overcome , and the need to resist the tendency to believe that QOL can be assessed with a single quickly applied composite measure . |
| 20 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 21 | His neglect can therefore be characterized as an attentional rather than sensory deficit . |
| 22 | At least one of these computational models of the lexicon will be linked to an existing computationally realised grammar in order to explore its interaction with the syntax . |
| 23 | ‘ And if you 're worried about the taxpayer , should n't you perhaps be attending to the urgent little matter your sergeant told you about ? ’ |
| 24 | Unless and until scientists come up with a better way , the drug would probably have be administered by a catheter permanently inserted into the brain , a method currently used in treatments for inoperable brain cancer . |
| 25 | It may be that the central significance of modern manifestations of the humanist impulse is to be found at the practical rather than the methodological or theoretical level . |
| 26 | Postmen were waiting there to take it on bicycle to the outlying villages and make the return journey with outgoing mail to be despatched on the 6.20 pm train to Hull . |
| 27 | Only from next April does the full bite start to apply , when the tax take rises by a daunting £6.5 billion , to be followed by a still more severe £10 billion rise in 1995-96 . |
| 28 | Ehrenpreis 's approach , while fruitful in some respects , tends to treat the poor as an object to be observed from the outside even if it is with ‘ rapt interest ’ . |
| 29 | Suppose that the total utility v of a union member in employment can be represented by the following additively separable function : where r denotes reputation from membership , and the superscript i denotes the individual . |
| 30 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |