Example sentences of "and [vb base] be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , Shepherd seems to have shown little interest in the effects of the electric media ; indeed , his account of the present-day situation assumes an even tighter grip by the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , the system created by literacy and print being generalized as a ‘ symbolic-technological filter ’ which regulates the processes of communication vital to socialisation and the creation of consciousness ’ ( Shepherd 1982 : 149–50 ) . |
| 2 | Most previous tax allowances have disappeared ( the single person 's allowance , wife 's earned income allowance and married man 's allowance ) and have been replaced by a new personal allowance and a new married couple 's allowance . |
| 3 | Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions . |
| 4 | Foreigners , since the earliest times , have been required to live in special residential areas and have been treated with a good deal of suspicion and hostility by ordinary Russians as well as by government officials . |
| 5 | In the last 30 years , and long before the amalgamation in March of the white and black and brown rugby factions , the unions were gradually split and sub-divided until now they number perhaps 26. of these , 20 are rural , including Boland and Border , and have been weakened to a point where they are virtually powerless , impoverished , dying or dead . |
| 6 | Er improvement schemes and measures were identified and have been implemented over a period of time . |
| 7 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 8 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
| 9 | Our attempts at determining both the electric field strength and the potential have started with considering the effect of a single point charge and have been followed by an integration for obtaining the total effect of the infinitely long line charge . |
| 10 | The methods or ‘ media ’ they have used for these explorations have evolved over time — and have been aimed at an ever wider audience . |
| 11 | Like the Conservative government , they dithered and have been overtaken by a recession which reduced their chance of success . |
| 12 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |
| 13 | The girls have been featured on national and local television and received regular coaching sessions from Wigan rugby league players and have been sponsored by a building firm . |
| 14 | Beds that fold down from the wall when they are needed have lost their makeshift image and have been updated to a new smooth efficiency and now come complete with a wall of closets or wardrobes . |