Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wins a subsequent bout also by disqualification , then he must be withdrawn for his own safety , since it is obvious that , in this tournament at least , he is not protecting himself adequately . |
| 2 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 3 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 4 | It will be intriguing to see whether Romania 's rather conservative tactics will be altered under their new manager , Mircea Paraschiv , and new coach , Florin Popovici , who both took over last month . |
| 5 | Its meaning can be altered by its altered context . |
| 6 | And now we 've all managed to carve out or own identities , and to be recognized for our own distinctive bodies of work . ’ |
| 7 | His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity . |
| 8 | ‘ Basically we 've looked and said there 's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here , ’ Collis said , adding that Dell will be sticking to its own price timetable . |
| 9 | Estelle had appeared to be aroused by it all . |
| 10 | WINDSOR Women 's Centre will , quite literally , be building on its own success , when members don hard hats to construct a new complex at Broadway . |
| 11 | In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose . |
| 12 | She retires secure in the knowledge that new Oxford QT Jeannine Kuffer will be building on her splendid pioneering work . |
| 13 | Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ? |
| 14 | The Rowan Clinic at the Royal London Hospital has a team of counsellors , so basic assessment may be undertaken by someone other than the client 's personal counsellor . |
| 15 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 16 | The reticence of the CAB to put its case more cogently to the private sector may be explained by their historic fear of losing their independence . |
| 17 | Some of the analogues with modifications at these sites bind tightly to cyclophilin but are relatively inactive as immunosuppressants ( for example , [ MeAla6 ] CsA and [ D-aminobutyric acid ] CsA ) which may be explained by their decreased affinity for calcineurin . |
| 18 | Therefore , increased fasting volumes in patients with acromegaly might be explained by their large body size . |
| 19 | The high level of marking of the first two occurrences ( " Martian " and " Mars ' ) can be explained by their foregrounded status in being located near the beginning of the schema instantiation . |
| 20 | The noticeably high serum pepsinogen I concentration in the patients with chronic renal failure is consistent with previous reports and can be explained by its impaired renal clearance . |
| 21 | However , his view that each thing has an essence and that all its active behaviour is to be explained by its inbuilt conatus or striving to preserve its own essence has a strong Aristotelian flavour . |
| 22 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 23 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 24 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
| 25 | In part , that may be explained by his own view of women formed from those days in Neptune : they should be independent , take their strengths from their inner self and not rely on men , except for moral support . |
| 26 | Reason said he could n't possibly have any recollection of a nineteen-year-old nobody he had once caused to be dismissed from her first job , but the knowledge of her bones was stronger . |
| 27 | Can he be dismissed from his judicial office , and if so by whom ? |
| 28 | Any grudging admission of Britain 's ultimate dependence upon the United States in the event of war was accompanied by the usual warning that Americans were a " mercurial " people , governed by so " archaic " a constitution that the government might be paralysed by its own people in a crisis . |
| 29 | These scholars continue to review recordings in a highly influential way and every professional early-music ensemble knows that its work will eventually be referred to their public judgement . |
| 30 | Of course enquirers would be referred to their local CAB where needed . |