Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 2 | Finally , our most recent results have shown that ( 1 ) the differential perspective cues described here also affect the perceived absolute distance to the surface ( such that a surface containing perspective cues appropriate for near viewing is perceived to be closer to the observer ) , and ( 2 ) the shape of the apparent fronto-parallel surface systematically varies with the differential vertical perspective cues generated by surfaces at different absolute distances from the observer , as Helmholtz informally demonstrated over a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | If you do not intend to return to nursing employment in the near future , then you can only remain as up to date with nursing theory as possible in anticipation of your planned return , and hope that the evidence you eventually provide of recent study is sufficient to convince the Board of your readiness to return . |
| 4 | It seems obvious that they are relevant but how precisely they interact with present behaviour is unclear . |
| 5 | Both parts A and B of Resolution 45/55 on the prevention of an arms race in outer space were adopted by 149 votes with one abstention ( the USA ) . |
| 6 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 7 | His assistant , Douglas Morgan , was a new cap in that 1973 game and even in more recent years , McGeechan 's first home Five Nations match as senior coach was against the Welsh ( the 23-7 triumph in 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Following the departure of the resident cartographer in May , support for geological cartography was maintained by continuing to supply and maintain equipment and materials . |
| 9 | It is , as suggested earlier , becoming clear that support for applied research is more attractive to funding bodies than support for fundamental research . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 11 | The dominant characteristic of political decision-making when compared with market mechanisms is not that those who benefit from public expenditure are those who make the most noise politically . |
| 12 | The climate of opinion that children never lie about sexual abuse was ‘ dangerous ’ , he added . |
| 13 | There are few gardens in which suitable roses can not be encouraged to grow , for the assumption that they only flourish on heavy clay is a misconception . |
| 14 | ‘ What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites , ’ she says . |
| 15 | What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites |
| 16 | Control in slow flight is fantastic . |
| 17 | My first rod is used to cast to within a yard or two of a predetermined spot ; a spot which I know from past experience is a productive one . |
| 18 | The closest most of us get to Irish culture is a pint of Guinness and the first few pages of Ulysses . |
| 19 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 20 | Not all of those , of course , as already noted , are reasonable-above all , any wholesale dismissal of what we get by direct awareness is entirely futile . |
| 21 | Change in rural transport is not only the key to many of the changes outlined in Chapters 4 and 5 , but it is also a central connecting factor linking service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 22 | Editor , — There is a general perception that change in medical education is starting to occur . |
| 23 | Many of the diseases from which people suffer in Western society are caused by over-eating . |
| 24 | The largest — and fastest growing — market for Scotch Whisky is the European Community . |
| 25 | These are new antagonisms which emerge as social conflict is diffused to more social relations . |
| 26 | Demand for second-hand equipment is high , and British dealers would do well to take a look at the opportunities , he adds . |
| 27 | As for cost , even when we talk of technological development being , in health care , at the service of all who may need it , we realize that , in fact , its supply is limited , and the limitation is expressed usually in terms of cost . |
| 28 | One of the most powerful ways people deal with potential embarrassment is to create organisational defensive routines . |
| 29 | Here the experimenter effect is maximal , and the correspondence of the attitudes expressed to those that operate in every-day life is not easily determined . |
| 30 | The pictures are shadowgraphs ( see Section 25.4 ) ; the bright regions correspond to depth-averaged temperature being high and the dark regions to its being low . |