Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We will be sticking to our guns . ’ |
| 32 | There is also a further appeal before the court in relation to an application by the plaintiff for disallowance of interest upon the defendant 's bill of costs and er it is claimed that if interest is to be disallowed on their bill , interest should also be disallowed on the defendant 's bill of costs . |
| 33 | Be honest about any prejudices that might be implanted in your mind . |
| 34 | Then , place a sheet of glass over the design and trace the outlines on to the stiff card that you will be using for your stencil pattern . |
| 35 | If you know the length per ball or cone of the yarns that you will be using for your garment , you can enter this information in the ADJUST section . |
| 36 | In contrast , overweight people seem to get much less strong and effective stop signals from the body , and this is largely because of the other factor , the major clue , which our eating-behaviour expert would be using in his ‘ guess who 's overweight ’ game . |
| 37 | Nobody trusted the geologists ' claims that this was simply a series of experiments to see whether the underground structure was suitable in principle : everybody believed that the waste dump would be excavated under their patch . |
| 38 | WINDSOR Women 's Centre will , quite literally , be building on its own success , when members don hard hats to construct a new complex at Broadway . |
| 39 | In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose . |
| 40 | She retires secure in the knowledge that new Oxford QT Jeannine Kuffer will be building on her splendid pioneering work . |
| 41 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
| 42 | Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ? |
| 43 | ‘ We have advised Mr and Mrs Woodhead to take a week 's leave of absence during which the mayoral duties will be undertaken by their deputies . ’ |
| 44 | Hammam is on the board for Wimbledon ( director me thinks ) and he himself was ‘ brought to court ’ ( FA ) because he had sprayed some bad words in the away teams wardrobe before/after/during a game against Everton ( ? ) — do n't remember the details — but a high official in a club doing this should be sacked in my book : even worse i think he did get away with it — a small fee or something but nothing serious . |
| 45 | Barons could most readily huff and stomp when they did indeed own their papers , rather than being chairmen , liable to be sacked by their directors . |
| 46 | How long must we go on , how many more jobs are to be lost and how many more families are to be dispossessed of their homes ? |
| 47 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 48 | The reticence of the CAB to put its case more cogently to the private sector may be explained by their historic fear of losing their independence . |
| 49 | Rather more than ten of Scaevola 's cases may be explained by their origins in the words of laymen , or as possible glosses or interpolations : just under forty remain . |
| 50 | Some of the analogues with modifications at these sites bind tightly to cyclophilin but are relatively inactive as immunosuppressants ( for example , [ MeAla6 ] CsA and [ D-aminobutyric acid ] CsA ) which may be explained by their decreased affinity for calcineurin . |
| 51 | That is , in brief , it is reasonable to suppose that their nature , as distinct from that of effects , is to be explained by their membership of causal circumstances . |
| 52 | The unexpected finding of very few and exclusively group II introns in plant mitochondria may be explained by their requirement for trans-splicing . |
| 53 | Therefore , increased fasting volumes in patients with acromegaly might be explained by their large body size . |
| 54 | The high level of marking of the first two occurrences ( " Martian " and " Mars ' ) can be explained by their foregrounded status in being located near the beginning of the schema instantiation . |
| 55 | However , his view that each thing has an essence and that all its active behaviour is to be explained by its inbuilt conatus or striving to preserve its own essence has a strong Aristotelian flavour . |
| 56 | What he is mainly denying when he denies that there are final causes in nature is that the existence of each individual sort of thing is to be explained by its serving some cause beyond it , in particular some kind of human interest . |
| 57 | The noticeably high serum pepsinogen I concentration in the patients with chronic renal failure is consistent with previous reports and can be explained by its impaired renal clearance . |
| 58 | In part , that may be explained by his own view of women formed from those days in Neptune : they should be independent , take their strengths from their inner self and not rely on men , except for moral support . |
| 59 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 60 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |