Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , few would be prepared consciously to adopt this attitude , and would be concerned to square their final position with maintenance of an attitude less partial to themselves . |
| 2 | Good discussions of these and others may be found in various textbooks , notably Downes 1984 ( chapter 6 ) , and no attempt will be made here to duplicate this material . |
| 3 | Visible garnet-edges tend to be smooth , which may suggest wheel-cutting , but if rougher methods were used the slices could be polished afterwards to remove any roughness ( Bimson 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Horses were still used until the 1950s on some canals and can still be seen today pulling some trip boats . |
| 5 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 6 | Two harps should never be used merely to double each other in unison . |
| 7 | They also tell their readers that the dish itself must be cleaned repeatedly to avoid any infection or contamination . |
| 8 | It must be provided immediately to have any effect on learning : the longer the delay , the slower the rate of learning . |
| 9 | This was the first leg of a double for trainer Nicky Henderson whose Wont Be Gone Long won another nip and tuck affair to take the BMW Chase Final . |
| 10 | Three main reasons can be put forward to substantiate this claim . |
| 11 | The government on May 18 froze all transfers of assets in the CPCz 's direct possession , valued at 4,500 million crowns ( approximately US$278 million ) , although the party would be allowed eventually to retain that portion of the assets which could be proved to have been acquired legally through membership dues . |
| 12 | In this way , many possible locations can be eliminated immediately leaving more time for the planning group to concentrate on the details which will determine exactly which site is the best one . |
| 13 | For example , extra staff between 0800–1100 hours or 1800–2300 hours may be recruited specifically fur any number or combination of these shifts . |
| 14 | If the intensification of use could be regarded as a material change of use , then planning permission would be required thus enabling any odour emission to be controlled by planning legislation . |
| 15 | A second character — say colour — could be chosen randomly to subdivide each order into families , and so on , until a complete hierarchical classification was achieved . |