Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once such a formulation is proposed then it can of course be applied to other phenomena ( other than those originally used ) and these are explained as additional instances of the abstractions that have been established . |
| 2 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 3 | The provision of specialized academic courses for students , and the take-up of such courses by students , need not of course be justified in instrumental terms at all . |
| 4 | The terms of the contract between the auctioneer and the vendor can of course be varied by contrary agreement ( i. e. usually by the printed auction conditions ) . |
| 5 | Such a play on emotions could of course be depicted in different ways . |
| 6 | It may of course be used in other applications requiring high levels of compression , possibly using conventional hard discs or other magnetic media , but currently it remains most significant in relation to CD-ROM systems . |
| 7 | Representations of system-sentences may of course be used in metalinguistic discussion of the structure and functions of language : and it is such representations that are customarily cited in grammatical descriptions of particular languages . |
| 8 | Hedging instruments such as swaps , options and financial futures can of course be used by financial institutions to limit risk , but these also contain ( often unknown and unlimited ) risks of their own — witness the losses of Midland Bank in its interest rate risk hedging in 1990 . |
| 9 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 10 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 11 | Questions concerning landscape features and ancient monuments — what they are , how old they are , who made them , and so on — can in part be answered by archaeological evidence , and in the case of prehistoric monuments , it is the only means available of deducing such information . |
| 12 | In some countries it may in part be based on social/ethnic background . |
| 13 | Although a researcher in a particular discipline , that is to say in a particular academic culture , will work within conventions of enquiry defined by that discipline , these will obviously in part be shared by other disciplines and in part shared also by the wider community within which the academic culture is located . |
| 14 | Complaints will in future be registered against individual editors by name . |
| 15 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
| 16 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 17 | In practice , you might , for instance : ( a ) Broaden your essay 's conclusions , so that they could in principle be applied to other books , or an author 's work as a whole . |
| 18 | In practice , as Rowe describes , it can be used with varying degrees of grammatical marking and would in fact be introduced to mentally-handicapped children in telegraphic form , slowly building to full English linguistic structure : e.g. ( 1 ) HALL , ( 2 ) GO HALL , ( 3 ) GO TO HALL , ( 4 ) GO TO THE HALL . |
| 19 | It is recommended that salmeterol be taken regularly twice daily and that a shorter acting β 2 agonist such as salbutamol be added for additional relief . |
| 20 | The circulation may on occasion be restricted to certain defined and known developers who are most likely tore-instruct the agent for the sale of the projected development . |
| 21 | The paper , on legal protection for mental incapacitated adults , will recommend legal definitions of adults at risk be extended for vulnerable elderly people . |