Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 2 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 3 | Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " . |
| 4 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 5 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 6 | The system of Heliopolis can be traced back to the Second and Third Dynasties . |
| 7 | Historians who have reconstructed the context of his trip have generally concluded that , far from being a momentary aberration , the Montreal speech was the culmination of a policy that can be traced back to the early 1960s . |
| 8 | history The Treasury can be traced back to the eleventh century whereas the Department of the Environment was created in 1970 . |
| 9 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 10 | there is increased liberality in interpretation in several texts , but they can mostly be traced back to the increasing imperial intervention in trust cases from the time of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 11 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 12 | Tory legal-constitutionalism was nothing new in the early eighteenth century — it is in evidence during the years of the Exclusion Crisis and Tory reaction , and its roots can be traced back to the Clarendonian position at the Restoration . |
| 13 | As Elcock ( 1986 , Chapter 9 ) points out , town and country , planning can be traced back to the Victorian era when enlightened industrialists sought to improve areas such as Bournville in Birmingham and Saltaire in West Yorkshire . |
| 14 | Their regulation can be traced back to the thirteenth century and subsequent legislation such as that of 1697 — ‘ An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock brokers ’ . |
| 15 | The family , which can be traced back to the thirteenth century , lived at the manor of Cavendish Overhall , Suffolk , until the house and lands were sold in 1596 by William Cavendish , Michael 's eldest brother . |
| 16 | As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state . |
| 17 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 18 | The persistent failures can always be traced back to the original false premise that all existence is controlled by an undefined and unassailable ‘ god ’ . |
| 19 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 20 | In some of the large international companies this process of amalgamating mission and vision has already begun — though it can , of course be traced back to the philanthropic industrialists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 21 | In reality , these devices are a form of laser whose development can be traced back to the post-war years and which have a wide range of applications beyond generating very high powers . |
| 22 | It is an idea — the idea that the practice of our art should ideally be an avocation rather than a vocation — which has a distinguished and ancient lineage , to be traced back through the English bourgeois idea of ‘ the gentleman ’ to the Italian aristocratic idea of ‘ the courtier ’ . |
| 23 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 24 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 25 | Before the programme is finally adopted it has to be referred back to the European Parliament for a second time . |
| 26 | The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements . |
| 27 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 28 | LIFESPAN RDBI data transfers can be broken down into the following phases : |
| 29 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 30 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |