Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their savings were completely liquid ( ie , they could be withdrawn immediately from banks ) , they were equivalent to cash . |
| 2 | Endometriosis may be diagnosed late in women using intrauterine devices as pain and bleeding occur with both . |
| 3 | So two questions need to be resolved on my analysis : first , is prevention ordinary treatment ? and , second , if preventive care depends on data drawn from special treatment , does this mean that special care may be undertaken only under conditions of limited , controlled research , which is what I suspect is what care of the VLBW baby really is , rather than by adopting the current haphazard approach which may wrongly dissipate resources ? |
| 4 | This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture . |
| 5 | Any conflict within the enterprise can be explained away in terms of ‘ personality conflicts ’ which not only lodges the conflict in a few people but ensures that others can cooperate as a good family might do in phantasy . |
| 6 | This means that the high rate of schizophrenia among close relatives of an affected person can not be explained away in terms of the effects of living with someone with schizophrenia , and any unusual relationship which might have developed between them . |
| 7 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 8 | There are large variations in the inter- and intra-national rates for this operation , which can not be explained adequately by differences in morbidity , and there is at present little professional consensus on the appropriate indications for hysterectomy . |
| 9 | The study found that the subsequent increase in tax revenue during the period to 1985/6 could be explained mostly by factors such as employment growth , growth of earnings and growth of self-employment rather than by any ‘ incentive ’ effects . |
| 10 | Can the ( relatively small ) deviations from uncovered interest parity — the implication of Rational Expectations in a world where international assets are perfect substitutes — be explained primarily by variations in risk premia ? |
| 11 | Skocpol ( 1979 ) , in a study of three revolutions , concludes that although ‘ questions of state power have been basic in social-revolutionary transformations … state power can not be understood only as an instrument of class domination , nor can changes in state structure be explained primarily in terms of class conflicts ’ ( p. 284 ) ; while Hall ( 1985 ) , in contrasting agrarian civilizations with industrial societies is mainly concerned , as was Max Weber , with the ‘ rise of the West ’ as a modernizing , progressive force , and with its possible decline as industrialization spreads throughout the world . |
| 12 | A number of such studies have shown that economic growth rates can not be explained completely by changes in capital and labour inputs . |
| 13 | Its report published in July last year , The Cost of Care in Hostels , concluded : ‘ Even hostels offering relatively low care were still offering some care , and had to spend more than could be explained simply in terms of the costs of accommodation . ’ |
| 14 | In Eliot 's poem the status of God as objet d'art is stressed ( ‘ And there above the painter set / The Father and the Paraclete ’ ) so that for all that we may penetrate beyond that either to gesso ground or vestiges of primitive fertility ceremony , the ultimate point of origin , the postulated God , is to be explained simply in terms of sexuality , or else remains unreachable and inexplicable . |
| 15 | The myth of dieting explained ’ ( ‘ Unnatural acts ’ , 8 May ) , Jane Mills rejects the thesis that this ‘ modern obsession with slimming ’ can be explained simply in terms of male/female oppression . |
| 16 | Homicide rates are interesting in themselves , but they can never be explained simply in terms of cultural definitions or psychological dispositions . |
| 17 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 18 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 19 | The tragic spirit , with its joy in the annihilation of the individual , can not be explained simply in terms of the traditional principle of beauty . |
| 20 | For Freud , antisemitism can not be explained fully in terms of the Jews being a minority group who are disliked by the host society because they are different . |
| 21 | But heightened sensitivity on this point can not be explained entirely in terms of the need to tighten ‘ social control ’ at a time of rapid economic change . |
| 22 | The contrast can not be explained entirely in terms of personalities ; nevertheless the characters of the rulers concerned were of great importance in this connexion . |
| 23 | The origins and development of the duty solicitor scheme can not , then , be explained solely in terms of an altruistic model . |
| 24 | This is not to say that Castro 's actions as described above can be explained solely in terms of Cuba 's relations with Moscow . |
| 25 | The presence or absence of reefs can not be explained solely in terms of temperature and turbidity , for , although reefs are absent from cold current shorelines , such as the west coast of South America , they do not occur even where the temperatures are high enough for coral in this region . |
| 26 | However , Schmidt specifically excludes emotional stimuli from any general theory of distinctiveness on the grounds that such stimuli ‘ lead to both physiological and psychological processes too complex and varied to be explained solely in terms of incongruity ’ ( Schmidt , 1991 , p.537 ) . |
| 27 | The student about to undertake research in materials science may be motivated by curiosity about the nature of common materials : why some are soft , some hard , some strong , and some brittle , and whether these differences can be explained satisfactorily in terms of their microstructure . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Alvin Lawson , professor of English at California State University , and his colleague , William McCall , a medical hypnotist , have endeavoured to prove whether the details of memories about abduction can be explained purely in terms of the psychology of the percipient . |
| 29 | Kaplan 's theory would seem to be the-more plausible of the two , in that it does not depend on parents transmitting the results of their learning to their children ; instead , it can be explained purely in terms of human curiosity . |
| 30 | Adams maintains that these observed variations may be traced historically to differences in government action . |