Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A whole set of disagreements on trade , notably over North American free trade and the GATT , could be smoothed over under that rubric : to be open and unbelligerent on trade is not weak-minded , but is in America 's interests . |
| 2 | An over-ambitious social physics , albeit statistically sophisticated , would give an oddly flat theory of social relationships precisely because unique , yet meaningful , patterns would be smoothed out under general statistical laws . |
| 3 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 4 | The area is thought to be inhabited by about 2,500 polar bears . |
| 5 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 6 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 7 | The history of the mill can be traced back to 1710 but quite possibly there may have been an older mill on the same site . |
| 8 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 9 | It was as architects rather than as builders that the Caroline bureaucrats bequeathed to liberalism this programme : their concrete achievements remained limited , but there is no practical reform of the nineteenth century , no reforming attitude of mind , that can not be traced back to one of the servants of Charles III . |
| 10 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 11 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 12 | It is a fundamental concept that can be traced back to earliest times . |
| 13 | The development of the FEL can be traced back to 1950 , when Hans Motz injected 3 MeV electrons from the Stanford linear accelerator ( linac ) into a magnetic undulator , producing millimetre and submillimetre radiation . |
| 14 | It has for long been held that our modern idea of time derives from that of early Christianity , which in turn can be traced back to that of ancient Israel and Judaism . |
| 15 | So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times ! |
| 16 | As the modern term for this genre the word fabliau can be traced back to scholarly writing of the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | But of course these tendencies can be traced back to earlier stages in his development ; and the Ode to Duty — ‘ Me this unchartered freedom tires ’ — was written the year before . |
| 18 | A useful feature of Halsbury is the ‘ Destination Table , ’ which will be found at the end of some consolidating Acts and which enables the provisions of the Act to be traced back to earlier legislation . |
| 19 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 20 | The authoritarian philosophy can be traced back to sixteenth-century England , where strict controls were imposed on the publication of what were regarded by the king and his advisers as seditious pamphlets and journals . |
| 21 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 22 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 23 | Hospitals were to become a setting later in the decade for ‘ Doctor ’ films , ‘ Carry Ons ’ and such tepid dramas as Behind the Mask ( 1958 ) , but the genre can be traced back to White Corridors ( 1951 ) where , amidst the routine romantic squabbles , and an occasional lecture on the working of the NHS , two strong stories evolve : a researcher develops a drug that will kill infections resistant to penicillin and his lover secures herself a registrar 's post against nepotistic competition , by skilfully operating on a patient her rival has misdiagnosed . |
| 24 | The first panspermic hypothesis can be traced back to 1743 and Benôit de Maillet , who suggested that the germs of life came to Earth from space ; they fell into the oceans and in due course grew into fish and , later , amphibians , reptiles and mammals . |
| 25 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 26 | These stages , linked to the known planets , can be traced back through medieval literature to the ancients . |
| 27 | If the FTSP is started after LIFESPAN , then outstanding file transfers will be delayed up to 30 minutes before being transferred . |
| 28 | The Government 's announcement suggested a possible date beyond 2000 and said that it could be delayed up to 2005 . |
| 29 | The conditions of the fifties meant that it was natural " for praise to be heaped on to democratic politics since it seemed to be doing the job very nicely . |
| 30 | But there has been an additional image barrier : the CAB as a generalist advice agency was often labelled a ‘ signposting ’ service whereby clients will simply be referred on to other organisations . |