Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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31 It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor .
32 Information retrieval should be recognized as a skill within its own right , though it forms an integral part of wider study skills .
33 What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it .
34 A graduate will be recognized as a licentiate member and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience .
35 On this approach , a shape can be recognized as a whole without the constituent parts being recognized as such ( a part is represented in a radically different way if it is seen as a Gestalt in its own right ) .
36 If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system .
37 Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament .
38 Third , it pointed to the necessity for critical preventive work to be recognized as a priority .
39 Ageing has to be recognized as a process , a gradual transition , rather than a once-for-all event .
40 To be drunk will be recognized as a symptom not of manliness but of extreme unhappiness , and since only on rare occasion do we want to broadcast the fact of our unhappiness to the world , the lager lout , the whisky soak , the sherry drunk will become a rarer and rarer phenomenon , until finally withering away .
41 In time , Alexander will be recognized as a pioneer worker in establishing the conscious control of the use of the self .
42 He was ambitious to be recognized as a physiologist as successful as his father .
43 So the same instruction would , on one model , be executed directly by hard-ware and , on another , be recognized as an extracode and interpreted by a subroutine in the supervisor .
44 We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals .
45 One recurring kind of reason against accepting the authority of one person or institution is that there is another person or institution with a better claim to be recognized as an authority .
46 One is that animals memorize local landmarks and directions on their way out , and simply reverse the directions to find their way home ; a second is that the home site itself has some property that can be recognized at a distance .
47 For example , the effects of transactions or events can be recognized on an accrual basis ( that is , when the transactions or events take place ) , or on a cash basis ( that is , when cash is received or paid ) .
48 Parts within a discourse type , like the discourse type itself , may be recognized by a combination of the factors listed in 9.3 .
49 The presumption was that there were certain universals of social organization , functions that could be recognized in a variety of cultural forms ; myths , kinship orders , etc .
50 Subject to the preservation of the object of the Society , this Constitution may be amended by a resolution at any General Meeting provided it be carried by a majority of at least two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon .
51 Silverpoint can be resharpened on a metal file so that as the silver is worn down the point can be redefined easily .
52 Curiosity will be aroused by an exhibition which unites artists who would never have agreed to show together at the time when this sculpture was being made .
53 The most hazardous of all forms of patronage for the political manager was the presentation of a minister to a parish , for unless there was general agreement among the heritors and other parishioners , strong feelings were likely to be aroused in a church where patronage was still regarded as an alien intrusion without scriptural authority .
54 Is it beyond imagination , in these days of biological engineering , to conceive of a time when embryos will be implanted in a man 's body , and develop , and be born — perhaps by caesarian section ?
55 On the other hand , if you were Andrus and for some reason you decided to start a campaign of your own , and you were , like him , a Copt , the first thing you would do would be to go to a bank and make proper financial arrangements .
56 Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter .
57 Personal Interviews will often be on a one to one basis but can also be undertaken as a group exercise .
58 This process can also be undertaken via a modem link .
59 You will find that the initial letters of the routine operations to be undertaken during an examination form the word
60 A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes .
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