Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in Islam are held in very high esteem , which Westerners do n't seem to realise . |
| 2 | The consequences of technical change are influenced at least as much as by the objectives that managers seek to achieve in introducing change . |
| 3 | Poetry and narrative are constructed from quite different ‘ dominants ’ or ‘ genre-markers ’ . |
| 4 | Mean latent periods for malignant tumour detection after radiation exposure are estimated at about 25 years , although for leukaemia it is between 8 and 14 years . |
| 5 | The best type of digitiser that 's available to the home user are based on either magnetic or capacitive effects . |
| 6 | Reiksguard are recruited from all over the Empire and include the sons of many wealthy and powerful families . |
| 7 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 8 | As we will see , offences of this kind are dealt with without hesitation on the basis of simple reciprocity . |
| 9 | That is why the two categories of damage are dealt with separately . |
| 10 | It sees ways of making certain that small points of correction are dealt with speedily , and thus the chance of devoting extra energy to the broader guidelines and the delineation of greater issues . |
| 11 | It sees ways of making certain that small points of correction are dealt with speedily , and thus the chance of devoting extra energy to the broader guidelines and the delineation of greater issues . |
| 12 | ‘ The lads still at the club are coming from all over the place to turn out for us , and are happy just to play the game . |
| 13 | The memories of his early years and surroundings and the impressions he formed on life as a result are immortalized in so many of Tennyson 's poems . |
| 14 | As you replace the second piece , note which needles hold which horizontal band of the first piece and make sure the bands of the second piece are put on exactly the same needles . |
| 15 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 16 | Sequences of familiar violence are interspersed with achingly beautiful , melancholy moments , and Peckinpah marshalls a posse of bit part stalwarts ( Slim Pickens , Jack Elam , Richard Jaeckel , Harry Dean Stanton , Katy Jurady , Chill Will , Elisha Cook , Matt Clark , R G Armstrong ) and pays tribute to their contributions to literally hundreds of Westerns as he leaves them dead in the dust to the accompaniment of a Bob Dylan score . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that in the light of the Cleveland Report 's comment that ‘ the child is a person and not an object of concern ’ ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 , p.245 ) that urgent efforts will be made to ensure that the child 's views and perceptions of practice are articulated via sensitively designed research . |
| 18 | Some of the inherent tensions and contradictions of anti-discriminatory practice are brought into especially sharp relief during the assessment process . |
| 19 | Aspects of links such as format , timetabling , curriculum linkages and liaison are discussed from both the school and college perspective . |
| 20 | Holly Johnson 's and Paul Rutherford 's games with masculinity and male pleasure are set in remarkably old-fashioned contexts , in sixties-style ‘ liberated ’ party settings , women as available , threatening receptacles of desire . |
| 21 | Some of these , such as carbohydrate , fat and protein are needed in relatively large quantities and have been termed macronutrients . |
| 22 | In summary , the crossroads we are reaching is one where the established targeting criteria ( such as demographics , application form characteristics and average balance ) which pointed to whom to mail , will in future be overlaid by more complex segmentation systems based on trends and changes in the way customers use the totality of accounts . |
| 23 | He demanded action be taken at once . |
| 24 | Franklin always resented the Department being saddled with so much debt at a time of falling revenue , but the Coronations dominated most of his time as Manager . |
| 25 | Autoradiographs of bleomycin cleavage were scanned with either a Joyce Loebl Chromoscan III or a Hoefer GS300 microdensitometer . |
| 26 | Fundic argyrophil cell densities in patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome were compared with previously published values in 10 healthy control subjects . |
| 27 | This was despite the condition being known for more than 2,000 years , says a British Medical Journal report . |
| 28 | The " sartorial " version of religion is smuggled in unawares , and with it radical doubt as to the truth of any religion . |
| 29 | When the largest and most ambitious building projects , the so-called ‘ palaces ’ , are interpreted as temples , that preoccupation with religion is thrown into even higher relief . |
| 30 | Repetition of the remedy is continued for as long as is required , and the doses are tailed off gradually . |