Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 2 | At present , people living in mental hospitals are therefore disadvantaged compared with those living at home , who can be registered to vote without any test of competence . |
| 3 | The spread ratio can be adjusted to allow for this differential response to a change in the level of market prices . |
| 4 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 5 | Dealers would be taught to respond like this : " We could do that . |
| 6 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 7 | The hanging and design of the last room will be intended to reproduce to some extent the appearance of a Water-Colour Society 's exhibition of around 1830 with red walls . |
| 8 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 9 | These techniques can be considered to alter in some predetermined fashion the way in which the image is presented to the viewer . |
| 10 | They might be sorted according to any combination of these , such as things which are ‘ green and made of metal ’ , but such sophisticated sorting is seldom within the range of the very young child . |
| 11 | In general this angle is θ for a homoatomic chain and equation ( 10.4 ) can be modified to allow for these short range interactions . |
| 12 | Any one of these may be highlighted and then located in the database to display a full summary of its present rating with regard to the nature of the substance , its source and effect on man , and notes may be added to expand on this . |
| 13 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 14 | And nobody seems to be itching to speak on this report . |
| 15 | job mobility : will the employee be expected to move to another town if the employer wants him to work elsewhere ? |
| 16 | Out of a population of 8000 ‘ normal ’ men , 17.2 would be expected to die of such cancers . |
| 17 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 18 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 19 | And Bentham made explicit claims as to the benefits which could be expected to accrue to those who employed the principles on which his " inspection-houses " were founded . |
| 20 | The history department would be expected to participate in this process and then match up their own practice to that agreed . |
| 21 | They could hardly be expected to agree to less , and they 're excellent tenants . ’ |
| 22 | As biological bias is increased toward one choice as opposed to another in the course of genetic evolution , the mode of the ethnographic curve can be expected to shift in that direction . |
| 23 | They could n't be expected to argue with that . |
| 24 | Democracy might be expected to collapse under such pressure . |
| 25 | His sort of realism just could not be expected to compete with that of the gangster film and especially now with that being offered by James Cagney . |
| 26 | The banks would be expected to compete with each other in both the attraction of deposits and the making of loans . |
| 27 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 28 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 29 | According to her personality type , she can be expected to react on this first day with anything from brave smiles to tension and tears , but this will be quite normal . |
| 30 | The view of human nature as fundamentally aggressive can be expected to prevail in those domains where it corresponds with social and cultural ideology . |