Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all .
2 There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another .
3 Ratio scales , to remind ourselves , contain all the properties of ordinal and interval scales with the additional one that they can be transformed one into another .
4 I was grateful to be called anything at all .
5 If these spaces are not to be compared one to another , and no original research has been carried out , what exactly is the purpose of this well-prepared book ?
6 Groups of gens related in this way from phratries and phratries may be linked one to another in a similar fashion to form tribes .
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