Example sentences of "[prep] it be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently most of it is scored for orchestral accompaniment : to extract the songs and perform them with piano , either in a performance-art format , as does Angelina Réaux , or as a Liederabend like Carole Farley , is to present a one-dimensional aspect of the music and an ultimate disservice to the composer . |
| 2 | Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking . |
| 3 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 4 | This is a very handy aspect of the program , since it brings in the prospect of it being used for other purposes . |
| 5 | The Cathedral at Angers is a good example of the massive , domical building of Anjou , though parts of it were rebuilt in Gothic times . |
| 6 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 7 | Although external organs such as the police networks were used to enforce control , much of it was exercised through existing social institutions , for example , the family and the company , and through official organizations such as the reservists , youth leagues and women 's groups , of which membership , where appropriate , eventually became compulsory . |
| 8 | Much of it was erected by small speculators with limited means , who came themselves from the working class . |
| 9 | Part of his spare time was taken up with the marching band of the university , but much of it was given to boisterous evenings drinking and singing with his companion — always with a view to winning the girls ' eyes and hearts . |
| 10 | Well he did n't reveal any of this new material and none of it was revealed in open court . |
| 11 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 12 | The first striking feature of the collaboration we observed was that most of it was associated with individual rather than shared tasks . |
| 13 | Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost , some of it was used as pure money . |
| 14 | Presumably the reason why the lights appear stationary while the " ghost " is seen to revolve is that during the duration of any light the stimulus from it is accompanied by fused after-images of the other three . |
| 15 | Typical tundra forms a thin , semi-complete vegetation covering in which grasses or low shrubs up to about 50 cm tall are dominant ; spaces within it are caused by bare rock outcrops , and characteristic patches of mobile soil which all plants find difficulty in colonizing . |
| 16 | Yet , like the Christian cross , the sacral horns were used in a general symbolic way , and it may be that the Labyrinth was , as a whole , dedicated to Poteidan even though individual sanctuaries and shrines within it were dedicated to other deities , in much the same way that within a cathedral there may be chapels dedicated to a variety of Christian saints . |
| 17 | Cognitio was an official procedure , and a judgment given in it was based on magisterial authority . |
| 18 | The Dialogue was not published for the benefit of transvestite amateur countertenors : Mopsa 's part in it was aimed at young ladies . |
| 19 | It looks ordinary enough … but inside it 's packed with high tech electronics … it 's the work of local man Richard Marshall , who just happens to head of electronics for the Benetton Formula Grand One Prix team , putting some ideas into practice . |
| 20 | But the one next to it was veined with crimson and dull purple and , as Fenella touched it , she was instantly aware of a stinging pain , a boiling of hot sourness . |
| 21 | Then in the late fifth , or early sixth , century the settlement moved northwards ; it was smaller , of briefer duration and more dispersed , and the cemetery belonging to it was defined by Romano-British ditches . |
| 22 | Few of us truly enjoy administrative work , and the time that we spend on it is lost from direct contact with our patients — or our families . |
| 23 | to examine to what extent the generation of such travel and the mode used for it are associated with particular household , personal or locational characteristics , and |
| 24 | Analysis of Brian 's nursing history does not show a structured approach of this nature ; such support was provided as the need for it was noticed by individual staff members , which is theoretically unsatisfying , although it may have worked in practice . |