Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 2 | While there was , from the platform , evidence of considerable care and attention being paid to the potential physical hazards of the industry , little or nothing was said by the industry 's speakers about the effects of chemicals or their by-products on the environment . |
| 3 | Sometimes it entails tracking trends , events , or activities that the organisation accidentally becomes aware of or which are brought to the organisation 's attention by outsiders . |
| 4 | It is the task of the Chief Commissioner to decide which decisions are to be reported and he or she is assisted by the Commissioners starring decisions they consider worthy of reporting . |
| 5 | As a ‘ no meaning ’ theist , he or she is protected from the sort of self-criticism that must come when believer and unbeliever are challenging one another on common ground . |
| 6 | The group reflect what they see of the sufferer 's assets and defects ( never defects alone ) and he or she is helped towards the recognition that his or her previous life truly had become unmanageable and that he or she had tried desperately to control everything but was finally having to admit defeat and accept powerlessness . |
| 7 | Each member of the community was given a name by which he or she was addressed in the Little Academy , representing a quality which they either possessed or sought . |
| 8 | It follows that if a contractor can demonstrate that the resources available and those intended for use on site would enable the works to be finished early , the contractor would have good grounds for claiming reimbursement of additional costs if he or she was thwarted by the client 's delay . |
| 9 | Before declaring a dividend , the trustee must give notice of his intention to do so to all creditors of whom he is aware or who are identified in the statement of affairs who have not proved their debts ( r 11.2(1) ) and advertise his intention to declare a dividend unless he has previously invited creditors by advertisement to prove their debts ( r 11.2(1A) ) . |
| 10 | The validity of comparing the effects of cyclosporin and placebo on ulcerative volitis in patients who were not randomly admitted to the study or who were removed from the study owing to the severity of ulcerative colitis disease activity can be justified as follows . |
| 11 | That every person is an end in himself or herself is related to the fact that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , something which everyone has the potential to be , whatever talents or gifts of fortune they may or may not possess . |
| 12 | The audit report should refer to significant departures from SSAPs where either they are not explained in the accounts or they are explained in the accounts but the auditor does not concur . |
| 13 | The audit report should refer to significant departures from SSAPs where either they are not explained in the accounts or they are explained in the accounts but the auditor does not concur . |
| 14 | Or they are held in the arms and quietly soothed — of course they 're sad to be going . |
| 15 | or they were cast by the lost wax process from a model made of wax rods . |
| 16 | If the comb is n't level , it may be because you did n't put it in symmetrically , or that the weights are n't positioned symmetrically , or it 's caught on the ribber , or you tied the end of the yarn to the clamp when you started . |
| 17 | However , unless the expert clause says so or it is agreed by the parties before the appointment is made , the expert need have no particular qualifications at all . |
| 18 | If the word is not found then it is said to be misspelled , so either correction is attempted , or it is returned to the user for verification . |
| 19 | They have n't received your invoice or statement because it was n't sent or it was sent to the wrong address . |
| 20 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 21 | The house is empty — bring that brat with you if you must — and get a housekeeper , or a governess , or whatever 's needed for the rest . |
| 22 | All procedures for objective setting , planning , time keeping or whatever are agreed in the light of the task to be done and the situation . |
| 23 | The aim of knowledge-seeking will depend on what is important for or what is valued by the individual or community in question . |
| 24 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 25 | Again , neither these comments nor what was described as the least desirable eventuality ‘ the establishment of a Communist-dominated , Moscow-oriented state in Indo-China ’ , seem inaccurate or unreasonable : although it may be argued that the inherent fault was to assume that this represented the limit of Ho 's power and appeal . |
| 26 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 27 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 28 | This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair . |
| 29 | ‘ One reason is that linen is an ecologically sound product and nothing is wasted from the plant . |
| 30 | The crew ejected safely and no-one was injured on the ground . |