Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian showman ( left ) will be roared on this weekend by a huge home crowd in the northern Italian resort as he launches his defence of the giant slalom and slalom titles he won with ease last year . |
| 2 | As was the case with others alleged to be implicated in this affair he left the colony , and has not yet returned , notwithstanding strenuous efforts on the part of the prosecuting authorities . |
| 3 | An alternative hypothesis , which has considerable intuitive plausibility , needs to be refuted before this assumption can be justified . |
| 4 | An existing certificate may be amended for this purpose . |
| 5 | People 's natural prejudices may be aroused by this prospect alone , sufficiently for the idea to be rejected , but it must be made clear why EMU is undesirable for Britain and for Europe . |
| 6 | Although it is not clear that subjective risk can be biased in this way theories of driving which stress a schematic or conceptual representation of the environment ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) might suggest that biases in the perception of the environment would indirectly lead to biases in subjective risk , either because risk is an important aspect of such schemata or because subjective risk would result from the inconsistency between the environment and pre-existing schemata . |
| 7 | It is anticipated that more work will be undertaken in this area , resulting in a national framework of units suitable for use at advanced level . |
| 8 | It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world , without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace … there must be some agreement among the countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect to whatever action might be undertaken by this government . |
| 9 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 10 | It should be explained at this point that each university is funded at the full rate for only a core number of ‘ Fully Funded ’ students in each of 25 ‘ narrow ’ subject groups . |
| 11 | However , it is not clear where on this hypothetical curve normal driving would lie , thus both enhancements or impairments of memory with increasing risk could be explained within this framework . |
| 12 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 13 | The goal of the smoothing recipes to be explained in this chapter , however , is not the extrapolation of a given series into the future . |
| 14 | Though many poltergeist influences can be explained in this way , what of those which happen in empty , uninhabited properties ? |
| 15 | But with cats it seems to be too common to be explained in this way . |
| 16 | Many aspects of adult cat behaviour can be explained in this way , the relics of kittenhood remaining with our pets until they are old and senile . |
| 17 | In other words , can all creativity be explained in this way ? |
| 18 | The errors which occur could be explained in this way . |
| 19 | Although individualists allow that certain types of individual property may be explained by appealing to the properties of groups , they are committed to the view that other individual properties can not be explained in this fashion . |
| 20 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 21 | In a similar case of a montane forest , between 56 tree species in several families , this time in Jamaica , there was , again , only slight interspecific temporal separation in the use of animal pollinators and dispersal agents , thus ‘ niche ’ separation in this sense is slight and the coexistence of the 56 species can not be explained in this way . |
| 22 | Another interesting feature of the deployment of simile and metaphor in The Inheritors may be explained in this context . |
| 23 | The revival of interest in its ideas might be explained by this , rather than by its standing as a political organisation . |
| 24 | The reports of statues actually ‘ breathing , and ‘ speaking ’ may be explained by this understanding . |
| 25 | The attractions of Dworkin 's thesis can possibly be explained by this need for a new unitary formulation of legal theory — the irony , of course , is that Dworkin shares with other approaches this simplified view of today 's society . |
| 26 | But not all the remaining convergence can be explained by this process and it has been suggested that the rest has been accommodated by the lateral movement of blocks of continental lithosphere along east-west trending strike-slip faults to the north of the Tibetan Plateau in Mongolia and western China ( Fig. 3.24 ) . |
| 27 | I believe that the paradoxes of the mind-body relationship can be traced to this logical structure and their solution to be found in the light of this interpretation . |
| 28 | The evolution of fins may also be traced across this phylogeny . |
| 29 | Obviously , it 's something that 's gon na develop , and er , as times does on , more and more issues are gon na be referred to this committee . |
| 30 | The explanations given above provide the general framework of analysis to which the various actual uses of to before the infinitive will be referred in this study . |