Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , both radio and television may be perceived first and foremost as entertainment ; or a particular national newspaper may be considered to be primarily the voice of the government rather than a general organ of information . |
| 2 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |
| 3 | In short , nothing that is in the process of development or change , strictly speaking , can be claimed to be numerically the same as long as this process lasts , for existents are individuated only by their full life-cycles . |
| 4 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 5 | In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity . |
| 6 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 7 | Richard Titmuss was the outstanding exponent of the liberal socialist standpoint on the study of social policy ; indeed , he can be said to be virtually the founder of the systematic study of social policy . |
| 8 | This will be shown to be particularly the case in the next chapter on the relationship between catholicism and the Irish constitution . |
| 9 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 10 | Answer guide : The calculation of the opening wealth here is straightforward as the historic cost , replacement cost , and net realizable value can be judged to be effectively the same . |
| 11 | But do n't let anyone get away with telling you that IBM 's problems are all the fault of the world economy : if Hewlett-Packard Co can grow at 20% in the current climate , if ICL Plc can remain in the black , if that former corporate basket case Unisys Corp , which compared with IBM started out under its present management with no advantages at all , can return to profit , IBM 's woes have to be acknowledged to be primarily the fault of the company itself , and only exacerbated by the economy . |
| 12 | Can the car be allowed to be just a car , no longer a symbol of defence against possible demands , feelings about a prettier younger sister or a manipulating mother ? |