Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If you can accept this concept , you will then be able to understand in principle why some people are predisposed to some illnesses or tend to be sensitive to certain types of dietary changes , groups of food , or nutritional deficiencies . |
2 | 31 firms either were not or ceased to be eligible for registration . |
3 | On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states . |
4 | erm that 's the doubt and that doubt is going to be either borne out or shown to be wrong by the rest of John Major 's incumbents , so at the moment I 'll certainly give him the benefit of the doubt . |
5 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
6 | We will either transform it into a new liberating future or continue to be subject to its tyranny whether we recognize its power or not . ’ |
7 | Meetings were often held in museums or educational institutions specially built or refurbished to be ready for the great occasion . |
8 | These categories include people who have been refused leave to enter Britain , refused entry clearance , deported , or considered to be involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws , Elton told the House of Lords . |
9 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
10 | Initial conditions for the chemical constituents were taken from two-dimensional model results and adjusted to be consistent with recent observations . |
11 | The archdeacon in the king 's presence appointed his brother Richard to perform the duties of his Forest office in his place , and agreed to be responsible for him . |
12 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
13 | More recently , biofeedback treatment has been suggested and reported to be effective in about two thirds of patients . |
14 | JAMES SERVICE ( 1823–1899 ) emigrated to Melbourne in the 1840s and formed a large commercial firm ; he entered state politics and rose to be Premier of Victoria from 1883 to 1885 . |
15 | The village is the place to stay if you enjoy a relaxed , informal atmosphere and want to be close to all the activities . |
16 | Right , and there 's various pros and cons to be aware of . |
17 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
18 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
19 | Its chemical composition was determined at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and found to be identical with the material synthesized at the Winthrop laboratories 3 years earlier . |
20 | The woman was trapped in the car and found to be dead by emergency teams . |
21 | The homology between the PPT element and the previously proposed sequence found in the type II sodium channel gene and proposed to be present in several neuronal genes . |
22 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
23 | I let him have his pet , but in the end I went and tried to be nice to him ( because I knew I must get him to send that letter ) . |
24 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |
25 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |
26 | Danny the youngest had settled down in his job as a lighterman and seemed to be popular with the local girls . |
27 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
28 | Forbes ' verses and caricatures became famous , and came to be typical of a kind of hearty humour forming a part of scientific meetings of the nineteenth century . |
29 | Committees are places where you can see people snoozing , picking their noses and pretending to be interested in subjects which are of no interest to them . |
30 | She was n't smiling but she was obviously being polite , nodding and asking questions and pretending to be interested in the answers . |