Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highly organized learned career which obtained in the empire from the late sixteenth century onward has been described by a number of authors , western and Turkish , most recently by Gibb and Bowen in their Islamic Society and the West and by Uzuncarsili in his . |
| 2 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
| 3 | The job of keeping them together has been entrusted to a series of ‘ confidants ’ who write his books , churn out his articles , furnish his quotes , capture his image and sweeten the sour , and when I once asked Niki why he would n't ever do a serious — and in consequence , a truthful — book about himself , he replied , why should he ? |
| 4 | Since that time , the mathematical evidence that black holes can emit thermally has been confirmed by a number of other people with various different approaches . |
| 5 | Still less has been made of a functionally similar underclass in the United States . |
| 6 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 7 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 8 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 9 | ‘ Mind Full Of Worries ’ is a strolling , easy to like thing with strumming guitars , clever lyrics that could probably only have been written by a woman , and a somewhat dreary American voice that sounds a bit too country for my liking . |
| 10 | The paragraph itself could only have been written by a cad . |
| 11 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 12 | The anatomy of living things is so complex and delicate that they could only have been created by a Supreme Creator . |
| 13 | Having observed Thatcher 's boorish behaviour , Abse comments : ‘ Such a jealous and ruthless super-ego can only have been formed by a prohibiting mother who is brusque and prematurely insists upon early toilet training . ’ |
| 14 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 15 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 16 | At a time when business is tottering , Landy 's enterprise sails close to the wind and could only have been mounted by a dealer whose new lease in Charlotte Street has secured his own operation . |
| 17 | But if one manages to gain their confidence the reward is a feast of learning and interesting comment which can only have been acquired by a lifetime spent largely in reading . |
| 18 | However , these thoughts would only have been thought by a Christian audience of that time . |
| 19 | The poems which impressed the gentleman could only have been produced by a poet with rings around her eyes . |
| 20 | The figures are wildly optimistic , and could only have been extrapolated from a short trial of about 10 operations . |
| 21 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 22 | The decoration around the windows and along the string-course is delightful , the corbels especially having been sculpted into a strange and compelling variety of animals , monsters and more or less human figures . |
| 23 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 24 | So BET was left with a workforce of five hundred cleaners , with no-where to clean . |
| 25 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 26 | Second , the area was not fortunate enough to have been chosen for a government-supported demonstration project , despite the key issues of homelessness and health in the inner London areas served . |
| 27 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 28 | So love is formed by a dark ray 's invasion |
| 29 | The paved corridor had already been cleared , so work was directed at a building attached to it . |
| 30 | Of course , paperwork is itself a form of managerial control , which adds to the dislike , especially since returning a file as incorrectly prepared is perceived as a mechanism by which management assert their ‘ glory ’ in the labour process . |