Example sentences of "be [verb] in [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ruling overturned a February 1989 civil settlement , whereby criminal charges against UCC were to be withdrawn in return for compensation [ see p. 36466 ] . |
| 2 | They can be withdrawn in cash on demand and are thus also totally liquid . |
| 3 | The remaining twenty-seven were obliged to be withdrawn in consequence of action brought or disputed ownership . |
| 4 | Thus , to the primary objective : the production of a new OED for the twenty-first century ; we must add a second objective : the electronic handling and delivery of the information contained in and added to the OED , so that the latter is able to be altered in response to changes in the language . |
| 5 | There would be some increase in grant-aid to Responsible Bodies in the next two years ; grant regulations would be amended in line with Recommendation 6 and the Ministry would discuss and review work with Responsible Bodies individually before allocating a block grant for the year to each . |
| 6 | MEPs are to be lobbied in Brussels on Friday and approaches will be made to leading shareholders in DAF , including British Aerospace , which has an 11 per cent stake in the company . |
| 7 | Slow , rhythmic or stretching exercises should be undertaken in preference to jogging and jumping-about type exercises . |
| 8 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 9 | It is doubtless true that at bottom the behaviour of a motor car is to be explained in terms of interactions between fundamental particles . |
| 10 | The behaviour of a computer can be explained in terms of interactions between semiconductor electronic gates , and the behaviour of these , in turn , is explained by physicists at yet lower levels . |
| 11 | We concluded that the behaviour of a complicated thing should be explained in terms of interactions between its component parts , considered as successive layers of an orderly hierarchy . |
| 12 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
| 13 | Rather than the result of differential access to productive property per se , the inequality between these two broad occupational strata can be explained in terms of Weber 's emphasis on their different market capacities . |
| 14 | What has come to his rescue is an altogether subtler kind of ideas and information-limitation whose effectiveness is , if anything , enhanced by the fact that it can not easily be explained in terms of conspiracies and blunt propaganda . |
| 15 | It has also been found that age effects can be explained in terms of speed of learning of the language , which is much faster the younger the learner . |
| 16 | So the believing in religion with , with moral codes , particularly in those religions which have rather strict moral codes , and demand quite a lot from the believer , in terms of adherence to the er , to the moral law even those religions can be explained in terms of Freud 's transference theory , because that too , comes from childhood . |
| 17 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 18 | The existence of distinct geographical provinces thus could not be explained in terms of climate . |
| 19 | Many non-neutral uses of gender-neutral words ( like citizen ) can not be explained in terms of speakers ' commonsense assumptions that men do certain things and women other things . |
| 20 | Further , it has been argued that there is no ‘ Asiatic mode of production ’ , so that the distinctive history of the Orient has to be explained in terms of influences other than a specific mode of production ; for instance , by the character and development of political or religious institutions . |
| 21 | The hard core of Marx 's historical materialism would be the assumption that social change is to be explained in terms of class struggle , the nature of the classes and the details of the struggle being determined in the last instance by the economic base . |
| 22 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 23 | How individual capitalists or groups of them choose to accumulate will have to be explained in terms of personality , entrepreneurial history and material opportunities . |
| 24 | He had never wanted her to be given in marriage to Dom João , and had seen that gentleman 's non-arrival as a good way of calling off the match should Sara wish it . |
| 25 | That kind of thoroughness can be given in service to Jesus . |
| 26 | The US première will be given in Chicago in October . |
| 27 | Rewards may be given in terms of pay , promotion , status , official approval etc . |
| 28 | Where a plaintiff had shown that he was the beneficiary of a trust , for example that some land should be conveyed to him , the judgment could be given in terms of performance : the trustee could be required to convey the land to him . |
| 29 | All analytical methods should be validated in respect of accuracy , precision , linearity and specificity . |
| 30 | Descartes 's mechanical philosophy will be examined in detail in Chapter IV . |