Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 2 | Tension in the hands and feet can be eased by alternately stretching and clenching fingers and toes half a dozen times . |
| 3 | Such clearance will be eased by not reproducing any of the figures marked*> . |
| 4 | The idea that the educational achievements of black students can be explained by genetically inherited lower intellectual ability relative to whites , as measured by IQ tests , has been even more vigorously challenged , with Kamin providing one of the most effective critiques ( Kamin , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | Payment would be made only if the unemployment was involuntary ; disputed claims would be referred to newly appointed local committees consisting of representatives of capital and labour ; workers would be entitled to refuse work under conditions inferior to the norm for their occupation . |
| 6 | During emergency periods or times of air pollution episode potential , consideration should be given to temporarily closing polluting plants or requiring fuel switching to be adopted by larger industry . |
| 7 | In addition to carrying out background research on the purchaser and its principal markets ( see section 0602.22 below ) , preliminary consideration should be given to how to tailor MAS and KPMG services to best meet client needs . |
| 8 | In symptom-free patients with complex ventricular arrhythmias or a family history of early sudden cardiac death , beta-adrenoceptor blockers should be given at maximally tolerated doses . |
| 9 | Information should also be given on how to connect the peripherals and operate them . |
| 10 | Advice will be given on how to write letters to the lender in order to avert repossession . |
| 11 | For particularly difficult legal queries , the AOI has a specialist solicitor available to clarify certain points and if necessary advice will be given about how to take further steps to resolve a particular case . |
| 12 | The changes mean that most of the care provided will be given by independently owned nursing and residential care homes . |
| 13 | These enable racist statements to be formulated without ever bringing into awareness the racist predicates on which the statements are grounded . |
| 14 | As an example , a 6V Zener can be realised by simply connecting a 2.7V Zener in series with one rated at 3.3V ! |
| 15 | Increasingly , I was baffled by what was going on , and kept silent , only to be rebuked for not trying or for adopting a disdainful attitude . |
| 16 | In the case of I-χB , the inhibition of NF-χB can be sedated by selectively inactivating the inhibitor at high temperature . |
| 17 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're past the age when you can be forgiven for not holding your liquor . |
| 19 | YOU COULD be forgiven for not having heard of the Treaty of TIatelolco . |
| 20 | As an externalist , would he not be justified in simply dismissing the argument from error as an irrelevant expression of internalism ? |
| 21 | One authority in the Brazilian Mineral Institute claimed that ‘ Congress felt that foreign mining companies that had already made huge investments here should be differentiated from newly arrived companies ’ . |
| 22 | Seed must be gathered from freshly ripened seed pods . |
| 23 | these are non-electrical ( and therefore silent in operation ) , and can be adjusted from fully open to fully closed . |
| 24 | ‘ If it is , he should be punished for not running to greet his father . |
| 25 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 26 | To stop the board from turning too much and possibly heading into wind , the turn can be stopped by swiftly moving forwards on the board |
| 27 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 28 | Although the government has since promulgated guidelines to standardise analytical methods , doubts remain about whether laboratories can be relied upon not to make technical and clerical mistakes which could result in someone 's discharge . |
| 29 | In the public sector the government can be relied upon always to raise through taxation the funds necessary to honour its pension obligations . |
| 30 | The bass trombone can therefore be relied upon now to have a compass from E natural below the bass stave to B flat above the tenor stave . |