Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For instance , large segments of DNA can be successfully cloned in place of the early region 1 genes of replication deficient adenovirus .
2 In 27 patients ( 96.4% ) bleeding could be successfully managed by injection of norepinephrine and polidocanol , in repeated sessions if needed .
3 But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone .
4 Recent changes in government policy , and the reform of many sporting federations have led some commentators to predict that South Africa will be effectively cleared for readmission to the Olympic movement .
5 ( b ) Quality words have meanings which may be effectively presented in contrast to their opposites by means of objects which best bring out their opposing qualities .
6 Purposive sampling , for example , could not be effectively done in advance of interviewing , since significant others could only be guessed at without the informant furnishing more detailed information .
7 Such is the importance of these events that none of the radical changes in Japan over the last 150 years can be properly understood without reference to them .
8 As between themselves the authority of individual partners to bind the firm can be properly circumscribed by agreement in effective variation of the basic principle set out in this section .
9 Development communicators , men as well as women , need to use their skills to reach policy makers and opinion leaders to make the case that women are key agents of development and that their needs and potential must be properly taken into account in development programmes .
10 ‘ ( 1 ) Solicitors shall ensure that every office where they or their firms practise is and can reasonably be seen to be properly supervised in accordance with the following minimum standards :
11 In each case , therefore , the agreement between the parties or the court order should be properly carried into effect by way of a conveyance , severance , transfer or declaration of trust , the form of which is the subject of this chapter .
12 Judging by American experience , there is no doubt that , as annual percentage rates come to be widely quoted in conformity with the new Consumer Credit Act regulations , people will become more familiar with them .
13 Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook .
14 Any grubby social thoughts the film might have evoked can be swiftly rejected in favour of a more universal muse .
15 With luck , their homes would not be burgled and any disputes that might subsequently arise over their property would be swiftly resolved on production of those impressive-looking deeds , some of them so old that they bore the colophon of the Sublime Porte .
16 It 's author , John Godber , told me that working out how to stage the ski , the scenes on the slopes had been quite a headache for them , particularly as the set of course , has to be constantly moved from theatre from theatre as it tours round the country .
17 This affected not only the fishermen ; all manner of townsfolk would be eagerly pressed into service with the onset of the mackerel or pilchard season .
18 But the Ragdoll , lacking these responses , could be literally loved to death by unthinking children .
19 This procolipase propeptide has an amino acid sequence that seems to be highly conserved in nature with the sequence val-Pro-Asp-Pro-Arg ( VPDPR ) in pig , ox , rat , and horse and ala-Pro-Gly-Pro-Arg ( APGPR ) in man and chicken .
20 credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ .
21 The work of the clinical team is likely to be greatly assisted by use of a simple problem-orientated approach .
22 There may be justifiable frustration at the low priority currently assigned to Rights of Way in county highway departments , but we think it may be better to ensure statutory responsibility remains within local government so that the interests of pedestrians , riders and cyclists can be greatly enhanced as part of a wider ‘ greening ’ of local transport policies .
23 Falling industrial employment could in the past be better characterized by reference to product sectors such as cotton , 1945–61 , or coal mining , which lost 317,000 jobs from 1961 to 1971 .
24 On the other hand , the loss of the gall bladder reservoir , the increase in gastro-oesophageal reflux , and the possible relation with cholonic neoplasia suggest that young patients who develop gall stones in relation to a particular episode — for example , pregnancy — may be better served by preservation of the gall bladder .
25 The alkaloid , thebaine , can be easily converted into codeine by demethylation .
26 The Amiga is already supported by a large body of games software which can be easily transferred to CD-ROM for sale to CDTV owners .
27 However , it can also be easily increased by division in autumn .
28 A desk with an adjustable sloping top is useful as it provides storage space too , but probably the most practical aid , especially as the pupil progresses into secondary school , is a light , portable reading stand that can be easily taken from room to room as required .
29 The problems of such an approach can be easily identified in relation to Stubbs ' description above of the varied functions of literacy .
30 Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students .
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