Example sentences of "[conj] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the meteorites were found on rocky terrain where they may have fallen directly or been deposited by melted ice . |
| 2 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 3 | Supervisors with Scottish research interests may have moved elsewhere ; the purposes of the research may have changed within universities ; Research Council funding for such research may have changed or been re-distributed to other universities . |
| 4 | Admittedly then , those seeking a comprehensive analysis , will have to have some a priori position on these issues since they all profoundly affect or are affected by environmental degradation . |
| 5 | Vogue wheels should not be fitted to earlier Range Rovers unless the wheel studs are marked with a line on the end or are replaced with new ones . |
| 6 | Social deixis concerns " that aspect of sentences which reflect or establish or are determined by certain realities of the social situation in which the speech act occurs " ( Fillmore , 1975 : 76 ) . |
| 7 | Where such resources are controlled at the top or are determined by national agreements , as with much of public sector salaries , then the power of middle management will diminish . |
| 8 | These form a layer at or near the surface or are incorporated into inner layers of the cuticle . |
| 9 | Sometimes , these remain in the landscape or are incorporated into complex village plans ; elsewhere , they were abandoned in what seems to have been wholescale replanning and resiting of villages . |
| 10 | Any small amounts of matter leaking from the black holes will gather together to form new stars , but those stars will themselves evolve until they either become black holes or are subsumed into black holes . |
| 11 | Those that do escape , or are released by compassionate fishing captains and crew , are often caught again , and the same dolphins may often be chased to exhaustion and encircled with tuna nets many times each fishing season . |
| 12 | Whether this is a common occurence and whether the larvae migrate or are transported by terrestrial populations of earthworms or beetles is not definitely known , but the occurrence of this apparent reservoir of larvae in soil may be important in relation to certain systems of control based on grazing management . |
| 13 | Mostly they do administrative work inside the station , drive for the section inspector , or are seconded to administrative work elsewhere in the station . |
| 14 | Within this tendency , the basic ‘ facts ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a given society and/or period are received or are established by general analysis , and their ‘ reflection ’ in actual works is more or less directly traced . |
| 15 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 16 | Dissolved material may subsequently be reprecipitated or be reincorporated into other minerals , but the great proportion is carried by rivers to the ocean . |
| 17 | They may overlie or be overlain by sexual difficulty which is endemic in an age group or among people with certain forms of disability . |
| 18 | These needs must include the needs to live a natural life and not be used for invasive procedures or be kept in restrictive confinement . |
| 19 | On the one hand , public decisions may be delegated , in effect , to private bodies or be made through informal processes which exclude Parliament and the public generally . |
| 20 | In Cornwall , some of the most intractable of wastes can be used for agriculture , for ornamental gardens and playing fields , or be converted to semi-natural habitat , as woodland or heath . |
| 21 | As might be expected when the large area in which Gaelic was widespread is considered , plant names may differ from place to place or be recorded in variant forms , and the choice ( in most cases ) of one name only in the Flora was extremely difficult . |
| 22 | Slum dwellers would filter through into better stock , or be rehoused by local authorities in new estates . |
| 23 | A generation ago in the South , blacks could not even go to white lavatories or be buried in white cemeteries — let alone compete for good jobs or live in white suburbs . |
| 24 | But England held the whip hand : it was a matter of amalgamate or be crippled by economic measures . |
| 25 | Many of these species also occur in gardens and may , like the mints , survive from former gardens or be introduced with dumped garden refuse . |
| 26 | The unit can receive calls , transmit faxes or be used by personal computers to tap into remote data banks — all for $5.50 a minute . |
| 27 | It has been calculated by scientists that , for every tree felled in the rainforests , ten others will die or be wounded by knock-on effects . |
| 28 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 29 | The tawny owl does not usually produce large concentrations of pellets because of its habit of using different trees each day for roosting , and so all of these samples are either from scattered locations or were collected over considerable periods of time . |
| 30 | In addition , when cattle got lost , or were eaten by wild animals , their owners sometimes assumed that they had been stolen and instituted a prosecution against known cattle thieves . |