Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 . |
2 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
3 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
4 | This polarity of views may be represented in terms of the differential propensities sr and sw . |
5 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
6 | On the question of what amounts to ‘ serious deterioration ’ , it is clear that differing views may be reached . |
7 | Similarly , the adoption of a common policy for the new firm will be essential : modification or even abandonment of formerly held views may be required . |
8 | Such views may be held alongside others in varying combinations . |
9 | The huge majority of humanity are earthy clods for whom no hope may be entertained . |
10 | Other illustrations may be incorporated in the text and are often called ‘ cuts ’ or ‘ figures ’ . |
11 | Two simple illustrations may be given . |
12 | We have some knowledge of these processes in cases such as proxemics , where our spatial orientation to objects may be observed as both cultural and normative ( Hall 1966 ) . |
13 | In this way , the stylized clay objects may be seen as early forerunners of the more recognizable goddess-idols of the Late Minoan period . |
14 | The Companies Act 1989 attempts to remove the need for these lengthy clauses by providing that a company 's objects may be stated in any manner . |
15 | Introductory handling sessions followed by work in the galleries generally allow pupils to get far more benefit from a museum visit than use of the exhibition galleries alone , where objects may be displayed behind glass . |
16 | The first manner in which objects may be related to each other is as type-tokens . |
17 | Among the Kwakiutl , discussed above , all objects may be related through a style expressive of an orality in which humankind achieves significance by its place in a universal cycle of devouring and reproduction ( Walens 1981 ) . |
18 | Here individual objects may be created and used as the basis of a repeating pattern . |
19 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
20 | Some common , fairly recent objects may be brought into school by pupils , or may be fairly easily acquired from junk shops , or as loans from parents or the elderly , although prices are rising even for twentieth-century objects . |
21 | Common objects , a marble or pebble , a shell or a shiny conker can be part of a nature table collection and more unusual objects may be borrowed from museums . |
22 | The specific objectification of a moral and juridical individual through the use of objects may be found in a wide range of societies , including those where kinship rather than the economy appears to be the dominant organizational principle . |
23 | As mass consumption , a particular array of objects may be found to represent and assist in the construction of perspectives relating to control over production or rivalry between consumers , but also to wider issues concerning morality and social ideals . |
24 | This type of link may be characterized by the stretch of apolar residues in the N-terminal β- strand A and a hydrogen bond network in domain 2 mediated by Ser-X-Pro at the start of β- strand A combined with Asn 161 and Ser 164 at the end of β- strand F and start of G ( residues in red ) . |
25 | Acknowledging that more than one sort of link may be formed as a result of even simple conditioning procedures helps explain the way in which these effects show in behaviour . |
26 | Detectives say they 've no proof that a serial killer is responsible for the four women 's deaths , but they are pooling all information in the hope that a common link may be found |
27 | The whole of the top of the ramus may be broken ( Fig. 3.14 E ) or completely missing ( Fig. 3.14 G-H ) . |
28 | A tile of lecturers may be stored in ‘ lecturer number ’ or ‘ lecturer name ’ sequence . |
29 | In terms of developments in curricula and pedagogy , a number of trends with which the project is in sympathy may be identified . |
30 | Korn may be seen as in considerable contrast to Reynolds ; he was no Ivy Leaguer , and learnt the principles of economics and entrepreneurship in his parent 's grocery store . |