Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled . |
| 2 | When deprived of these sensations they can not be used as checks when maintaining a safe environment . |
| 3 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 4 | Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers . |
| 5 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 6 | ‘ Surplus staff are being identified as unwanted and told that if redeployment is not possible within 28 days they could then be sacked just before Christmas . ’ |
| 7 | The problem , Richie explained , was that John and Angela had arrived at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Vienna , but as they had no passports they could not be admitted to the country . |
| 8 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 9 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 10 | Only on a few occasions have they gone this far , where they suggest changes they will often be limited to ‘ undertakings ’ or promises . |
| 11 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 12 | Pan-pipes ( see SB 27 ) ; when played by street-musicians they would often be fastened round the neck so as to leave the hands free to beat a drum or play some other percussion instrument . |
| 13 | It was felt that VD was naturally confined to the unwashed , unkempt , and morally barren , and , when occasionally seen in the better class of person , resulted from some supreme temptation that had been put before them , for indulgence in whose pleasures they could hardly be blamed . |
| 14 | A second objection is that where both parties carry on business in Contracting States they can reasonably be subjected to the Convention automatically since it forms part of their national law , whereas parties carrying on business in different non-Contracting States who agree that their contract is to be governed by the law of a third State which is a Contracting State may well have in mind only the domestic law of that State and arguably ought not to be bound by the Convention unless they contract into it . |
| 15 | By calculating the PV of various alternative investment projects they could then be ranked against each other . |
| 16 | Although these urban areas support a surprisingly large variety of nesting birds they can not be considered as a major nesting habitat for any except Swifts , Starlings , House Sparrows and hirundines . |
| 17 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 18 | Providing such deficits are kept within manageable proportions they can usually be financed by means of capital inflows such as foreign investment or incurring debts to overseas banks . |
| 19 | These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell . |
| 20 | Like bristleworms they should only be handled with forceps or aquarium tongs , as either type could do considerable damage to the fishkeeper 's hand . |
| 21 | Deaf children of deaf parents using sign at home may come under this rule ; like ethnic minority children they must then be assessed in their native language prior to any Statement or placement . |
| 22 | Should the attackers overcome these obstacles they would then be caught in deadly crossfire from archers positioned on the next series of walls and towers protecting the central core . |
| 23 | All suggestions are given in good faith and for general help and guidance but since detail may vary with different roofs they can not be assumed to be suitable for every application . |
| 24 | In the normal course of events they will only be seen en masse after the Trooping of the Colour and on Christmas morning at Windsor ; and the wisdom passed from experienced staff to newcomers is never to put them on stage together . |
| 25 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |