Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend also to be those who publish frequently , and whose papers are highly cited . |
| 2 | Thus authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend also to be those who publish frequently , and whose papers are highly cited . |
| 3 | Occasionally they are led through the freshly flooded rice-paddies to turn and fertilize the soil ; otherwise their duties extend only to being sacrificed at noble funerals such as these , and leaving their magnificent horns attached in layers to the Toraja houses whose residents had so generously supplied them . |
| 4 | After his return to England , he explained to Dorothy Pound that her husband needed somehow to be calmed down . |
| 5 | While this is no longer true today , her grammatical analysis of metaphor is highly original , and its implications have yet to be fully recognized . |
| 6 | It did n't take long to get to Lori 's suite , but this time her knock took longer to be answered . |
| 7 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 8 | If it is not to be mere rhetoric , then its scope has continually to be exercised and its limits stretched . |
| 9 | This declaration was approved by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 , but its provisions had yet to be enshrined in law . |
| 10 | By attempting to imitate a human cognitive process , however , we are straying into the notoriously difficult sub-discipline of computer science known as artificial intelligence , and anyone working in this field would agree that many of its problems have yet to be solved . |
| 11 | Although its figures have yet to be audited , Software AG saw worldwide group turnover rise by 9.6% to approximately £321m . |
| 12 | The role of league tables has also been discussed in the British Department of Health ( H Neuberger , personal communication ) , although a final decision on the appropriateness of their use has yet to be made . |
| 13 | Retirement has been central to all of these , although the complexity of its impact has yet to be fully explored . |
| 14 | China sought readmission in 1986 but its application had yet to be finally considered [ see pp. 34588 ; 35030 ; 37227 ] . |
| 15 | First Chicago believes that selling half of its commercial property portfolio en bloc boosted the bank 's image with shareholders , regulators and rating agencies — though its share price is barely keeping pace with the S&P banks index , and its debt has yet to be upgraded . |
| 16 | In one terrifying episode , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers came close to being collectively murdered in the bombing of the Grand Hotel , Brighton , in October 1984 . |
| 17 | But she stressed that the programme 's development was at an extremely early stage , and a decision to go ahead with its production had still to be made . |
| 18 | A little while later , its shares fell slightly to be 18p up . |
| 19 | His future has yet to be decided by governors at Newcastle upon Tyne 's £3,141-a-year Dame Allen boys school . |
| 20 | His withdrawal seems now to be going further and further back into his own imagined creations of ‘ far other worlds and other seas ’ which transcend any physical creation . |
| 21 | This is why his proclamation came eventually to be known as ‘ gospel ’ or ‘ news of salvation ’ ’ ( Meyer 1979:130 ) . |
| 22 | The timing of his departure has yet to be decided . |
| 23 | Bernard Guidon , Hewlett-Packard Co 's commercial general manager for Unix in the US is taking up a new position within HP Europe — a promotion , according to the company — though his role has yet to be finalised . |
| 24 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 25 | He was slouched pathetically against a boulder , his face turned shamefully to be the ground . |
| 26 | His spirits lifted only to be dashed half an hour later when the hoarseness reappeared . |
| 27 | Our young Men and Women are being killed and tortured , our children are being mutilated by explosive objects , our lands are being confiscated , our trees uprooted and our homes demolished only to be replaced by Israeli settlements … |
| 28 | Blot hair with a towel to remove excess water — this is important because it allows your conditioner to work properly without being diluted . |