Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to be drawing most of those people out . |
| 2 | I reckon I 'll be using some of that , I 'm , I 'm gon na use I 've got less than you |
| 3 | Marx believed that the history of human societies was to be explained first of all by the nature of man as an animal who had to obtain a living from his geographical environment , which meant not only staying alive , but also being able to look after one 's offspring until they could look after themselves . |
| 4 | Although capsule distribution could be linked to other programmes such as immunisation , it must be given two to three times a year to achieve continuous coverage , and the risk of toxicity also needs consideration . |
| 5 | There are two different grades : Classic , which is uniformly coloured , £34.95 per sq m ; and Harmony , which has knots and colour variations , £30.64 per sq m Accessories : Cast-iron Chinese teapot , £75 ; rice bowls , about £15 each ; chopsticks , £1.25 per pair ; chopstick rest , £32.5 Best for : All rooms , but if laid in a bathroom it must be given two to three coats of sealer |
| 6 | ( 2 ) The consent of the Secretary of State may be given in respect of a particular disposal of property or of disposals of any class or description and may be given subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine . |
| 7 | It will be given free to any donor of at least £500 to the Magdalen Bridge Appeal Fund . |
| 8 | It was resolved that the attendance of the physician and the surgeons should be given free of all expense to the institution , and that each should be allowed the privileges of a governor by virtue of their appointments . |
| 9 | Planting can be done during the summer and the oxygenating plants should be given three to four weeks to become established before you introduce any fish . |
| 10 | I understand that they got 36.5 per cent of the total shareholding in the end , but Purchase and Szell say that they 'll be unloading some of those and that they 'll probably end up with about 20 per cent . |
| 11 | We shall be seeing more of this yacht , which has already been chosen as the class for the Tour de France à la Voile race in 1992/93 . |
| 12 | The introduction of a job-sharing scheme can be useful in two differing circumstances : first , where there are insufficient full-time posts to meet the number of applicants and , second , when the posts can not be filled due to insufficient numbers . |
| 13 | To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes . |
| 14 | This is of course not valid near the ends but if the solenoid is long enough , eqn ( 3.71 ) may be regarded valid for most of its length . |
| 15 | For the evangelistic gift to emerge within the life of the local church , evangelism must be placed high on that church 's list of priorities . |
| 16 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 17 | But he then goes on to remark that a further cause of inadequate response is the reader 's unfamiliarity with poetry : ‘ A lack of experience with poetry must be placed next to general inexperience of life in this list of deficiencies . ’ |
| 18 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 19 | That is simply because it has to be that low if some of these houses are to be considered habitable at all , and if others are to be inhabited by two , or often by three , families at the same time . |
| 20 | In China would be considered rhematic in both formulations ( unless stress is used to signal a difference in its thematic/rhematic status ) . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal decided that no child could be considered competent in that situation . |
| 22 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 23 | In many cases homoeopathic treatment is much more successful than orthodox treatment and can achieve results which would be considered impossible with orthodox treatment . |
| 24 | In view of high efficacy and safety , it is recommended that patients with corrosive strictures should be considered first for endoscopic dilatation . |
| 25 | With reference to the networks under study , the samples can not be considered random as such , because it is not true that all users in the township during the prevalence period had an equal chance of being selected . |
| 26 | Two of these strategies directly relate to the topics to be considered next in this chapter , namely ( 2 ) the provision of facilities ( rural service provision ) and ( 1 ) socioeconomic conditions ( rural deprivation ) and so attention is now turned to rural service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 27 | The problem of meeting the probable needs and wishes of the wider constituency which might now be considered eligible for some sort of formal association with the University after obtaining a qualification therefore needs to be addressed . |
| 28 | Gastric clearance had to be considered abnormal in three asymptomatic patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy according to Feldman and coworkers as well as to our own criteria : in healthy subjects all 10 markers were emptied from the stomach by six hours . |
| 29 | If we move from the material world of technology and physical experience to the metaphysical world of moral ideas and the imagination we find that there is enormous discrepancy about what may be considered abnormal in different circumstances , but attitudes to the abnormal are always ambivalent . |
| 30 | It will be clear from the discussion in the previous two sections on prey size and availability that the species content of prey assemblages can not be considered diagnostic of any particular predator . |