Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be few people in football who do not think Flashman should be turfed out of Barnet at the earliest opportunity . |
| 2 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 3 | However , nearly all funboard technique problems can be traced back to deficiencies in the strong wind stance . |
| 4 | Other breeds have colour-pointed varieties such as the White Galloway and White Welsh , but these are colour varieties within their breeds rather than separate breeds and quite often their non-standard colour can be traced back to crossings with White Park or British White in the past . |
| 5 | Each such node S is at the end of a path from the start , and this path can be traced back from S by following pointers . |
| 6 | It seems , then , that in some cases at least " exists " , or rather " actually ( or really ) exists " does have some useful work to do in a subject/predicate context and can not be dismissed out of hand as a " spurious " predicate . |
| 7 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 8 | The day can be broken up into sections for recording purposes . |
| 9 | Small sized prey is always treated this way , but larger prey ( large in relation to the size of the owl ) may be broken up before ingestion in the same way as for diurnal raptors , with comparable levels of breakage . |
| 10 | As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind . |
| 11 | These can be broken down into organisation of money , time and preparation . |
| 12 | ‘ It can be broken down into sets of signals , each signal with a specific function . |
| 13 | That is they can be broken down by bacteria to inert residues . |
| 14 | But all those changes could be justified out of respect for the principle of freedom of choice in sexual matters , particularly where the enquiry is so straightforward . |
| 15 | When the parade finally came to an end , Sergeant-Major Philpott congratulated them all and before dismissing the parade told the troops they could take the rest of the day off , but they must return to barracks and be tucked up in bed before midnight . |
| 16 | You are the lucky winners of our July competition and will soon be stepping out in style with a pair of great fabric boots from Line 7 . |
| 17 | The Embassy was trying to have the bodies released so that they could be flown back to England for burial . |
| 18 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 19 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 20 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 21 | The TCCB meet two weeks ' after today 's final to decide on what further punishment can be meted out to Lamb on top of a two-match ban and threat of expulsion from the England dressing-room . |
| 22 | The traditional Norfolk four-course rotation of turnips or swedes to be grazed off by sheep in winter , spring barley for sale ( undersown ) , red clover ley to be grazed in spring and summer , followed by winter wheat for sale , was designed to suit the strong land and dry , warm climate of East Anglia . |
| 23 | But one idea going around is that French troops might be mixed in with brigades from Britain or other NATO countries on a multinational — ie , non-NATO — basis . |
| 24 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 25 | The church had to be located out of sight in a sunken cul-de-sac west of the village street . |
| 26 | The trading lobby were not to be fobbed off with talk like that . |
| 27 | In the cold-war days , most of its operations were pretty straightforward and problems could be sorted out by officers on the ground . |
| 28 | Er er and it seems to me that the court should n't be clogged up with cases like this . |
| 29 | According to observers the significance of the vote in terms of national politics was that it would increase the likelihood of the minority government seeking to secure the support of the Progress Party for the 1990 budget , which was due to be voted on in parliament in December [ see below ] . |
| 30 | If managers do badly , the company 's directors may be voted out of office at the annual general meeting of shareholders . |