Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 2 | She is represented as accoutred with a shield and a trident , the traditional attributes of the Sea-god Neptune , to symbolize the fact that Britain 's strength depends on her sea-power as ‘ ruler of the waves ’ . |
| 3 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 4 | She was diagnosed as suffering from ‘ greenstick ’ , a childhood condition where children 's bones are so flexible that they bend , not break . |
| 5 | They are regarded as belonging to an earlier age of superstition and ignorance . |
| 6 | At its most dangerous this can allow unsavoury political or social practices to be ‘ forgiven ’ because they are presented as stemming from some cultural constant within a society . |
| 7 | For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state . |
| 8 | Both literature and social or cultural reality are de fined by structuralist theory in semiotic terms , so that ( as in the Bakhtinian theory ) they are seen as belonging to the same order . |
| 9 | That is , they are seen as falling into specific biological or psychological ( for example , ‘ personality ’ ) categories which include features other than the criminal disposition . |
| 10 | Judging from the ensembles in which their names appear , the instruments they are listed as playing in other ballet livrets , and the inventories of instruments that some of the royal wind players had in their possession at their deaths , they must all have been versatile performers on several instruments . |
| 11 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 12 | Very few food poisoning bacteria grow if they are colder than 5°C and they are killed if heated above 63°C . |
| 13 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 14 | In consequence , the Sadducees — having yoked their interests to Rome and enjoying unique prerogatives in the Temple — would have reacted to Jesus precisely as they are described as doing in the Gospels . |
| 15 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 16 | You may have problems with work — although many women are entitled to full maternity leave , they are actually expected to be back at work in eight to ten weeks , otherwise they 're regarded as lacking in commitment . |
| 17 | Indeed , there are groups whose very power in Britain might be jeopardized if they were seen as identified with specific political parties . |
| 18 | However , while the condition of struggle with the West Indians remained a constant , at least until 1838 , in providing a rationale for national organisations , how they were conceived as operating at various times , and even at the same time by different reformers , varied significantly . |
| 19 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 20 | It dries surprisingly quickly , and providing it 's laundered as directed on the label it 's relatively crease resistant . |
| 21 | It 's registered as belonging to something called the Zero Corporation . ’ |
| 22 | A little African finch , the cut-throat finch , when it is disturbed while sitting inside its ball-shape nest , gives a bizarre ‘ snake-dance ’ reaction . |
| 23 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 24 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 25 | The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension . |
| 26 | It is used when applying for a job . |
| 27 | ( iii ) Whether or not a polynomial is irreducible depends upon which set of polynomials it is considered as belonging to . |
| 28 | ( 6 ) No liability shall arise by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above if — ( a ) before the date on which proceedings to enforce the liability are finally disposed of , the former residential occupier is reinstated in the premises in question in such circumstances that he becomes again the residential occupier of them ; or ( b ) at the request of the former residential occupier , a court makes an order ( whether in the nature of an injunction or otherwise ) as a result of which he is reinstated as mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above … |
| 29 | It was concluded as agreed in the Treaty on the Final Settlement on Germany signed in September 1990 [ see p. 37834 ] . |
| 30 | At worst , it was regarded as consisting of sanctimonious , middle-class persons who mouthed government cliches about ‘ power-sharing ’ and said that they would be equally satisfied to live under London or Dublin . |