Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Although the assumptions behind British judicial procedure were not popularly accepted , the courts soon ceased to be alien because they were used by Sri Lankans in ways which fit indigenous norms .
2 Some of the things typically thought to be left out were :
3 The closing declaration welcomed the " Enterprise for the Americas Initiative " to promote regional trade and investments , launched by United States President Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] , but considered the terms initially offered to be " insufficient " .
4 The diseases well known to be part of ARC or AIDS have been mentioned , but other infections or conditions can also behave differently in HIV infection .
5 ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since .
6 And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated .
7 Over the past decade it has become accepted that some of the fossils formerly thought to be human ancestors are in fact on the line leading to the orang-utan .
8 Thus a government which while adhering to the rule of law narrowly defined , flouted all or most of the practices generally thought to be covered by the rule of law broadly defined would also give rise to doubts about its legitimacy .
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