Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 2 | A whole set of disagreements on trade , notably over North American free trade and the GATT , could be smoothed over under that rubric : to be open and unbelligerent on trade is not weak-minded , but is in America 's interests . |
| 3 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 4 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 5 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 6 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 7 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 9 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 10 | A useful feature of Halsbury is the ‘ Destination Table , ’ which will be found at the end of some consolidating Acts and which enables the provisions of the Act to be traced back to earlier legislation . |
| 11 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 12 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 13 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 14 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 15 | If the FTSP is started after LIFESPAN , then outstanding file transfers will be delayed up to 30 minutes before being transferred . |
| 16 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 17 | But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations . |
| 18 | Unlike negotiation , consultation procedures do not generally allow disagreements to be referred up to higher levels of the machinery ; once the formal consultation has taken place , management may implement its measures with or without agreement . |
| 19 | And they 've also agreed that any alteration of the plan will be referred back to this Council for their consideration . |
| 20 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 21 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |
| 22 | Where it was found that middle peasants had been encroached upon , where it was found that middle peasants had been dispossessed erm that position would be rectified and that would be given back to middle peasants . |
| 23 | And if you 're building a long flight , it can always be broken up with separate landings , either where the flight changes direction , or just for a change of pace . |
| 24 | The slick as a whole is too large to be broken up with chemical dispersal agents , which in any case can have damaging effects on marine life , particularly fish . |
| 25 | They must never be broken up for short-term gain . |
| 26 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |
| 27 | And following the successful privatization of water supply , the early 1990s will see the privatization of electricity supply ; the CEGB will be broken up into two companies ( National Power and Powergen ) , from which the sale proceeds will dwarf the proceeds of previous privatizations . |
| 28 | He showed how music could flow through a scene and not be broken up into short numbers which encouraged the audience to applaud each time . |
| 29 | We argued that Marxism could be broken up into three elements : a philosophy of history , a theory of economics and a view of the state and revolution . |
| 30 | ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said . |