Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , it is the formal properties of the device which are commonly given prominence . |
| 2 | We could stop pretending that some of us have solutions which are vastly and obviously superior to others , when we all know really that our solutions are not good enough , and in this way you would come together in creative activity instead of fragmenting into ever more divisive and destructive activities which are technically called displacement from one another |
| 3 | A file arranged as in Fig. 8.1 has considerable advantages for the retrieval of records that meet some request based on a number of separate criteria which are often called record attributes or descriptors . |
| 4 | Much of our daily work was ten years in advance of the official police community involvement programmes and yet our actions were only an extension of those social welfare activities the police have been heavily involved in for generations , but which are never given status as ‘ real police work ’ simply because of the institutional emphasis placed upon summons lists , numbers of arrests , crime detections , and other statistical returns . |
| 5 | The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying . |
| 6 | This deliberately starts with some very simple models , which are then elaborated step-by-step . |
| 7 | The number of people in ujamaa villages by the late 1970s was officially estimated to be 10 million , although many of these were already living in their existing communities which were simply renamed ujamaa . |
| 8 | These two tasks completed , the exposed pith was cut into narrow strips like ribbons , which were then placed side by side on a large , perfectly-flat slab of limestone which was kept permanently damp by boys scattering water on it , ever-moving fingers flicking across from earthenware pots . |
| 9 | What possible justification can the Minister have for that other than his trying to pursue a policy which is completely discredited north and south of the border ? |
| 10 | D. Some people are the workers who actively make money , which is also called wealth or capital . |
| 11 | Because of the interesting anti-microbial and anti-proliferative properties of this cytosolic protein , which is also called calprotectin , we decided to examine its distribution in macrophages and granulocytes of the normal human gut , focusing on ileal mucosa and Peyer 's patches . |
| 12 | He says it will mean more pollution , less sunshine , more water taken from the Thames , and further blight on an area which is already blighted emough . |
| 13 | This was the new concern of European states with other parts of the world which is usually called imperialism , a concern which had meant almost nothing to Bismarck . |
| 14 | An anonymous group of army officers supported these resignation calls in November , leading Pinochet in December to recall the army to barracks , a move interpreted as a show of force as the number of corruption charges increased him and the date approached for the release of the Rettig report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) , which was finally made public on March 4 , 1991 [ see p. 38095 ] . |
| 15 | There was a massive expansion of public housing ( which was even called council housing ) ; responsibility for personal social services ( such as children 's welfare and provision for the old ) grew dramatically ; the growth of education budgets and responsibility for ( almost ) universal primary and secondary education gave local education authorities very high profiles in the lives of ordinary people ; and the introduction of a nationally organized town and country planning system suggested a major new influence over development . |
| 16 | In 1989 the White Paper on health , Working for Patients , was produced by a review team , the exact membership of which was never made public . |
| 17 | Where the main impetus towards collective action on the part of employers related to the regulation of trading and commercial matters what are now called trade associations were set up . |
| 18 | Acceptance houses are an elite sub-group of what are commonly called merchant banks . |
| 19 | It 's the first foot clinic of it 's kind in the country , dealing with what 's now called podiatry , formerly chiropody ; bunions , ingrowing toenails , sports injuries and the like . |
| 20 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 21 | In 1986 the Eurotunnel prospectus was published and some of £206m of private money raised in what is generally termed Equity II , Equity I consisting of an earlier placement of £57m by the founder shareholders of Eurotunnel . |
| 22 | ‘ I spoke of what is ordinarily called morality . |
| 23 | The researches of Frances Yates into the relationship between science and what is loosely called magic at the end of the 16th century are enlightening . |
| 24 | This work has shed much new light not only on chronology , and therefore on the development of Bach 's style , but also on performance practice and what is loosely termed reception history . |
| 25 | The same expenditure data are also plotted on Figure 1b against what is here called Research Orientation Ranking , that is the proportion of postgraduate research on ‘ Other Physical Sciences ’ in the CVCP Report . |
| 26 | When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness , rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions . |
| 27 | What is often called public ‘ ( mis ) understanding ’ of scientific knowledge ( eg about technological risks ) thus may be more to do with public judgements about the credibility of the institutions which control that knowledge , or with the pragmatic translation of scientific information . |
| 28 | If the decision were in favour of subsidized family day care — developing what is now called child minding-this would also require a substantial financial and training commitment but be less costly in terms of bricks and mortar . |
| 29 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 30 | What is now called democracy in the West would not satisfy some of those , past and present , who have had a different conception of it . |