Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 2 | How could his enthusiasm not have been aroused by so inspiring a personality ? |
| 3 | The occasional discussion period , in which pupils express their current level of thinking about God , is no substitute for study in depth of how religious people understand " God " , why they do , and whether they are justified in so doing . |
| 4 | Marlowe had been tricked into vividly illuminating the miracle of the Incarnation . |
| 5 | Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances . |
| 6 | At the end of the instruction manual , details are given of how to form the angles for five , six , eight and 12-sided frames , useful for mirror or picture framers who wish to experiment . |
| 7 | When empirical mode explanations are given for naturally occurring causal sequences , causes do precede their effects , as was the case in the artificial experimental sequences . |
| 8 | Alluvial soils are developed on recently deposited freshwater , estuarine or marine alluvium and exhibit little profile differentiation or modification to the parent material . |
| 9 | Councillors need to be very strong-minded , and in some circumstances foolhardy , if they are to go against strongly offered professional opinions . |
| 10 | Issues of eurobonds are limited to highly rated and usually well known borrowers so investors do not require additional security in the form of specific claims on assets provided by domestically issued debentures . |
| 11 | Clients are taught to initially monitor their self-statements in any chosen situation or task . |
| 12 | The resignations occurred amid continuing controversy over the handling of the security services by Richard Sacher , the federal Minister of the Interior [ see p. 37382 ] , who had been criticized for not proceeding rapidly enough with the removal of StB officers from the ministry . |
| 13 | The Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for not dealing with the passing of property or with priority conflicts between the seller/buyer and a third party . |
| 14 | The government has been criticized for not making enough effort during the period of high copper prices to diversify Zambia 's economic base , and especially to encourage agricultural development . |
| 15 | As a large consumer of Middle Eastern oil , Japan had been criticized for not making a fuller contribution to the international effort against Iraq . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , they had remained loyal to the meetinghouse style they would have still been criticized for not having a style which met the needs of their time . |
| 17 | Problem behaviours ( B ) are examined for regularly occurring antecedents ( A ) and consequences ( C ) . |
| 18 | Traditional courses comprise centrally devised courses which are examined by externally set national examinations . |
| 19 | A number of other models have been suggested for the development of scientific knowledge , but these models are measuring the concomitants of scientific growth — the manpower , costs , publications , citations , etc — and none has so far been developed to fully describe the growth of knowledge itself , although Goffman 's work seems to have some predictive value . |
| 20 | Initially , two application packages were examined , both of which had been developed for privately run EPHs and emphasised the medical aspects of residential care . |
| 21 | Nonconformists could not win : if they followed normal Victorian uses and imitated the past , whether it was Greek , Gothic , Lombard , Norman or St Paul 's Cathedral , they were and are criticized for not having a new style . |
| 22 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 23 | That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today . |
| 24 | I will quote from it , because it is important to do so in the context of the reasons that have been given for not giving the WEU control of defence . |
| 25 | Ken Bates , the Chelsea chairman , had been given until tomorrow to pay £22.85 million to Cabra Estates , the property company who are Stamford Bridge 's landlords , as the independent valuation put on the ground . |
| 26 | Important aspects of the Grand Alliance technical proposal include the replacement of the present interlaced scanning technique , where two scans of the screen make up each frame , to progressive scan transmission , where entire picture frames are transmitted sequentially , and the use of so-called square pixels , where the dots on a television screen are arranged in equally spaced rows and columns . |
| 27 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 28 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 29 | Ten percent of last year 's income had again been designated for outward giving , the sum of £1,754 going to such national charities as the Emily Fund for abused children and the Church Housing Trust , and £844 for Kurdish and Romanian victims and other overseas causes . |
| 30 | In its case , however , the eye-spots are on the front wings and are exposed by suddenly spreading the folded wings and directing them at the attacker . |