Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nightmares can perhaps better be defined in terms of the emotions they evoke , rather than any particular subject-matter . |
| 2 | The West Wing contained chambers which Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 66 ) interprets as state apartments , although they might better be interpreted as sanctuaries ; the chambers behind are admitted , by their excavator , Nicolas Platon ( 1971 , p. 257 ) , to be ritual in nature . |
| 3 | With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order . |
| 4 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 5 | During the debate , I shall obviously be referring to matters that come within my hon. Friend 's remit , although I shall also be speaking about some of the important issues relating to regional economic and industrial policy which fall within the remit of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 6 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
| 7 | Coal tits are among the birds which will feed from these , but they do cache seeds , and so be prepared for sunflowers germinating all over your garden and beyond . |
| 8 | The tartness of the gooseberries and the sweetness of the mangoes combine well to create this refreshing dessert which can literally be made in minutes . |
| 9 | Reference will constantly be made to sections of this Act . |
| 10 | Up to the middle of the nineteenth century , water could only be obtained from wells — which frequently also became places of meetings and entertainment , e.g. Sadlers Wells , or by collecting and storing rain water , or it could be purchased from water vendors , at three pailsful for a penny . |
| 11 | Dyes for hair colouring could only be obtained from plants and one of the oldest of these is the red dye henna , obtained from the powdered dried leaves of the plant Lawsonia inermis . |
| 12 | Moreover , the system of land tenure , wherein the land belongs to the indigenous Fijians and can only be leased to Indo-Fijians ( the descendants of indentured cane workers who were drafted in from India in the early colonial period ) militates against conservation measures because it ensures the political dominance of the former ; and the encouragement of production ensures that such land is seen to be in use , an artefact to maintain internal stability . |
| 13 | Opinion on an individual 's functioning can only be given to others with that person 's consent . |
| 14 | Should only be given to babies that can be observed easily in a room in which staff are always present . |
| 15 | ‘ Money will only be invested in ideas where we can see a gain , ’ said Ken . |
| 16 | P-waves can be transmitted through any material ( sound waves are of this type ) , but S-waves can only be transmitted through solids . |
| 17 | HIV can only be transmitted between men through blood and cum . |
| 18 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 19 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 20 | And the replacement of anti-Semitism by anti-Marxism as early as 1922–23 as the main ‘ hate-theme ’ of his public addresses , and the relatively low profile of anti-Semitism in his speeches during the 1930s , can again only be explained in terms of a conscious decision to limit the public expression of his own phobias and paranoia for political and diplomatic purposes , to provide a wider appeal and to avoid gratuitous alienation at home and abroad . |
| 21 | Rather , it can only be explained in terms of a massive decline in the quality of conditioning of children : ‘ We live in an era of permissiveness and thus have largely abandoned all attempts to inculcate standards , values and ‘ conscience ’ into our children ’ ( ibid. , p. 209 ) . |
| 22 | The power of some pressure groups can only be explained in terms of what may be called an ‘ insider ’ status within the policy-making system . |
| 23 | They are to be contrasted with empty words , that is structural words , — those that belong to closed systems and can only be explained in terms of their uses in sentences . |
| 24 | This investment can only be justified for systems where transactions have a huge value to that business . |
| 25 | Château de Monte Cristo : It can only be visited on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 26 | the increased cost of the proposals and the fact that many will be unnecessary in the majority of firms means that the extra requirements should only be imposed on firms with a history of late or qualified reports etc . |
| 27 | For example , we have already noted the argument ( and see Chapter 2 below ) that if semantics is to be truth-conditional , then the truth conditions can only be assigned to utterances , not sentences — in other words , contextual specifications are a necessary input to a semantic component , and thus pragmatics is ( at least in this respect ) 16 prior to semantics . |
| 28 | Amendments to the ROLES.DAT file should only be performed by the LIFESPAN Manager and roles may only be assigned by users with project administrator privilege using option 7.2.2 — Update User . |
| 29 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 30 | One of the most valuable lessons the Party had learnt during the initial twenty years of land reform was that socialism could only be achieved through stages . |