Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 2 | A major firm has probably sunk cost in such a way that it is unlikely to be successfully challenged by an entrant . |
| 3 | One of the most important aspects of a writer 's creative personality is the degree to which he or she is sensitive and responsive to changes in public tastes , and is able to sense when such changes are in the ascendancy , acceptable to the vast majority of people , and can be successfully used within an advertising context . |
| 4 | A polymer in very dilute solution can be effectively regarded as an isolated chain whose shape is governed by short and long range inter- and intra-molecular interactions . |
| 5 | The power of scientists and their masters may sometimes be sinister , but it is not going to be effectively redistributed through an ill considered and superficial programme like the one outlined in Partial Progress . |
| 6 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 7 | So important a part did this crisis play in determining the events which are the subject of this report that they can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the extent to which the crisis overshadowed everything else that was happening in the area at the time . |
| 8 | When Schoenberg asks for the piccolo to play ppp in the top level of its register ‘ so schwach wie möglich ’ with the bassoon and solo strings at different dynamic levels , and then asks for completely different textures and dynamics in the next variation , I know that this can not be properly realized by an orchestra in a concert-hall seated in the conventional way . |
| 9 | Authority ( and power ) and responsibility ( and accountability ) must be properly balanced within an organisation ; ie there must be parity between authority and responsibility : |
| 10 | Even an advanced Intelloid can not be properly programmed with an inclusive appreciation of human laughter-stimulation … ’ |
| 11 | Physical sports would probably be widely accepted as an exception to restrictive rules on consent , but two points must be borne in mind . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher might now be widely regarded as an electoral liability ; but she had bounced back before from low opinion poll ratings and by-election reverses to win huge general election victories . |
| 13 | A modern lift can be elegantly installed in an old building . |
| 14 | In other words , I shall dispute that ontological existents can be coherently treated in an uncritical metaphysical fashion as " things ( existing unconditionally ) in themselves " . |
| 15 | Arette is a particularly neat , new-looking village , for the sufficient reason that it needed to be much rebuilt after an earthquake there in the summer of 1967 . |
| 16 | If you have the misfortune to be wrongly suspected of an offence , the grim reality is that employment law contains fewer safeguards for the incorrectly accused than does criminal law . |
| 17 | It all goes to show that biotechnology — or any technology — can not be sensibly assessed outside an analysis — or even an explicit image — of the social relations within which it operates . |
| 18 | However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process . |
| 19 | We must again remind ourselves that there was more than one episode of dinosaur extinction when food and dietary factors have had equal relevance , although each succeeding ( and changed ) species seemed to be better fitted to an ecologically evolved environment . |
| 20 | We need firm anti-inflationary policies , which would be better achieved through an independent central bank . |
| 21 | Your business will be better handled by an efficient , well-organized , calm office than by one where the impression is one of barely contained chaos ; |
| 22 | Eventually , in June 1984 , Seawright went too far when , during a meeting of the Belfast Education and Library Board , he suggested in regard to Catholic schools that ‘ taxpayers ’ money would be better spent on an incinerator and burning the lot of them . |
| 23 | As tribal culture weakens , status and power will come to be less connected with an outward demonstration of wealth , and this may pave the way for a more powerful generation of entrepreneurs as specific commercial objectives come to supersede those of status . |
| 24 | Most important , thought Dhuoda , apart from the royal lord himself , were the royal kin : persons to be especially cultivated by an astute and aspiring young man . |
| 25 | The civilian guards could be easily overpowered by an IRA unit which could then drive a huge van bomb virtually unchallenged to the rear of Parliament Buildings . |
| 26 | I have made calculations that indicate that transoceanic travel is not only feasible but could be easily achieved by an intelligent species only slightly in advance of us . |
| 27 | What is forgotten is the limitations of coverage of both these works , as can be easily seen by an item by item comparison of sections of the two books . |
| 28 | A lockpick , his own invention , something that could be easily concealed during an escape routine ; it telescoped — a little spring-loaded spike . |
| 29 | The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |