Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially true of black women writers , who tend to be plucked out of context to lend a splash of colour to a pallid white landscape — like a single exotic flower among drab , overwatered shrubs . |
| 2 | One of the main practical impacts of the TransAction system is that almost all the conveyancing is now dealt with before exchange of contracts , and this means that the tasks that have to be undertaken in between exchange and completion are relatively minor , thereby reducing the average time between exchange and completion to two weeks or even less . |
| 3 | It is now recognised by staff that much of the apprehension and anxiety can be traced back to lack of communication and Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) discusses the development of different approaches to rectify the situation , drawing distinctions between information-giving , patient teaching or education , and counselling . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm surprised she did n't put in a gold locket or something , or a precious necklace that could be traced back to royalty , or the aristocracy , or the Sultan of Kashmir , or the Pope . ’ |
| 5 | Was the uninterrupted growth and full employment of the '50s and '60s partly due to a belief ( which can be traced back to World War II ) that demand management would prevent mass unemployment if it ever showed signs of recurring ? |
| 6 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 7 | Turbo diesels should not be dismissed out of hand , but the turbocharger is a complicating factor , and a car which has not been carefully serviced may need an expensive replacement turbo . |
| 8 | Yet there are a few hints that the possibility of specific performance even of these judgments should not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 9 | The hypothesis can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 10 | Such ideas , and lessons of history , are clearly of fundamental importance and should not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 11 | The imagination trembles at some of these ideas — will a profession 's ruling body really come clean about its members ' income ? — but no suggestion , on this subject , should be dismissed out of hand . |
| 12 | Though macrosomia can not be directly equated with morbidity , as long as maternal glycaemia during pregnancy can be shown to influence any aspect of fetal outcome the entity of gestational diabetes can not be dismissed out of hand . |
| 13 | It seems , then , that in some cases at least " exists " , or rather " actually ( or really ) exists " does have some useful work to do in a subject/predicate context and can not be dismissed out of hand as a " spurious " predicate . |
| 14 | Yet the new approach attracted too many adherents for it to be dismissed out of hand . |
| 15 | That idea can be dismissed out of hand . |
| 16 | Adam had spoken to the Danish king Swegen Estrithsson , Cnut 's nephew , and can not be dismissed out of hand , although nor can he be regarded as infallible . |
| 17 | The certificate of membership remains the property of the HCIMA and must be given up on resignation . |
| 18 | The elderly people may have a range of social connections which would understandably be given up with reluctance and they often do not at that stage need to give up their home . |
| 19 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 20 | Leaving home , getting married , going on holiday , promotion at work , starting a family , all require certain familiar routines and rhythms to be given up in order to make the most of a new situation . |
| 21 | Government agencies , local communities and conservation groups have agreed that 24 square kilometres of the former swamp should be given over to conservation and tourism . |
| 22 | Mr Tennant said : ‘ In the case of Burnfoot 100 per cent of hill land will be given over to forestry . |
| 23 | The Inland Revenue will merely oversee the process under which thousands of properties will be given over to estate agents to lump into the banding system . |
| 24 | The remaining land was to be given out in family units , in line with the government 's ideology of private ownership . |
| 25 | The independent authority 's direct responsibility would be given back to government . |
| 26 | The big question is — can it be given back by design ? |
| 27 | Small sized prey is always treated this way , but larger prey ( large in relation to the size of the owl ) may be broken up before ingestion in the same way as for diurnal raptors , with comparable levels of breakage . |
| 28 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 29 | ALTHOUGH it is bound to be a finite group , each of those I 've mentioned can be broken down into sub |
| 30 | The problem of air resistance could be broken down into shape and surface effects . |