Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return for the high interest you earn , your money is tied up and can not be withdrawn easily if you need some of it in a hurry . |
| 2 | It is highly desirable that from every product in regular production , samples be withdrawn periodically and put on long-term stability test . |
| 3 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 4 | As polythene liners have little elasticity , they are installed without water being added , but plenty of movement should be allowed for , so that , when the water is gradually introduced , the wrinkles can be smoothed out and the liner moulded to the contours of the hole . |
| 5 | Rain had to be guarded so that people around her did not follow what the call was about . |
| 6 | These include treatable congenital abnormalities ( such as analatresia ) that may be diagnosed prenatally but for which termination of pregnancy is not indicated because effective treatment is available . |
| 7 | The pregnancy must be diagnosed quickly and the embryo removed , or the affected tube will eventually burst ( usually between 10 and 14 weeks ) , triggering severe , life-threatening bleeding . |
| 8 | Faults need to be diagnosed quickly and efficiently since quality of steel is increasingly important and mill shutdown costs at least £10,000 per hour . |
| 9 | Postoperative bile leakage and benign bile duct stricturing after open cholecystectomy can be diagnosed safely and effectively with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) . |
| 10 | The plans would have to be altered accordingly and that meant first attending to some unfinished business at Lausanne station . |
| 11 | 3.2 Should the Company be prevented for any reason whatsoever from completing the Work in the time agreed in Schedule I then the Publisher after giving the Company reasonable notice may commission the completion of the Work by another writer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties and the terms in Schedule II shall be altered accordingly or the Publisher may withdraw from the Agreement . |
| 12 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 13 | These will determine , for instance , whether the present 50–50 split between the narrower range investments ( only in fixed interest ) and wider range investments ( fixed interest plus shares and unit trusts ) will be altered so that more money can be made available for fund mangers to invest . |
| 14 | A number of people would have their wages reviewed immediately , and the wage structure would be altered so that people on the lowest wages would get proportionately higher increases . |
| 15 | I must give this to the Prime Minister , explain the strong feelings and see whether the guidelines can be altered so that it becomes more usual to impose a stiffer sentence . |
| 16 | Purchase behaviour will , again , be altered so as to come into line with the customary behaviour of the reference group . |
| 17 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 18 | Congress would remain free to re-order its priorities , but the overall balance of the budget could be altered only if approved by two-thirds of both houses of Congress , other than in time of war , when the measure could be waived by a simple majority . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , in both experiments there was a clear tendency for risky exemplars of risky junctions to be recognized well but for risky exemplars of less risky junctions to be recognized badly . |
| 20 | It has a seemingly simple and limited behavioural repertoire , including various forms of learning , while its relatively easily mapped central nervous system contains only a small number of cells — no more than 20,000 neurons in all , arranged in a system of distributed ganglia and including amongst them a population of very large cells which can be recognized easily and reproducibly from animal to animal . |
| 21 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |
| 22 | One of the claimed advantages of expert systems are that their knowledge basis can be amended quickly and easily . |
| 23 | The Companies Act should be amended so that directors ' service contracts do not exceed three years without shareholders ' approval . |
| 24 | Ideally , this provision should be deleted , or at the very least it should be amended so that it applies only to the consent of a mortgagee or superior landlord actually required under the terms of an existing mortgage or superior lease . |
| 25 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 26 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 27 | The remaining graves , probably about 280 — filled with up to 1,000 more weapons and jewellery items — will be excavated only if finance for future digs becomes available . |
| 28 | 10% of house-buyers opt for a full structural survey ; this is a more detailed report based on a more exhaustive investigation and technical examination of the property — it lists the defects and includes an assessment of any remedial works which may need to be undertaken immediately and in the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | Should be undertaken regularly and slowly . |
| 30 | There is a danger that projects may be undertaken not because they are likely to lead to academically interesting results , but simply because they are susceptible to computerisation . |