Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 No farm worker welcomes the prospect of having to uproot his family should he , because he is ill , injured at work , made redundant , has achieved retirement or had a row with his boss , cease to be employed on the farm .
2 Timber buildings may simply rot and collapse , and other features such as pits and ditches will silt up very rapidly once they cease to be maintained .
3 ‘ I never cease to be struck by the extraordinarily high performances individuals can turn in when faced with a challenge properly identified and given the means to deliver .
4 They also cease to be stolen when taken into police possession : A-G 's Ref .
5 These principles should n't be forgotten or cease to be put into effect simply because your child is becoming a young adult .
6 But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is .
7 Since atmospheric perspective is disregarded also , the furthest buildings appear to be placed above rather than behind the ones in the foreground .
8 The oral papillae appear to be arranged in two series : a superficial series edging the side of the jaw and a series within the mouth slit which might be oral tentacle scales associated with the first and second oral tentacle pores .
9 The oral papillae appear to be arranged in three tiers .
10 And yes , they appear to be substantiated .
11 Moreover , as revealed by in situ hybridization analysis , the GGFs appear to be expressed in the nervous system during embryonic development .
12 Interviews conducted during the course indicate the importance of task achievement and of the related social processes which encourage self development ; and these consequences appear to be sustained over time .
13 Very few , however , appear to be planned in any way comparable with the cities of the province .
14 The driver is fairly safe , because of the height of the seat , but the petrol tanks appear to be exposed to damage .
15 In addition , early cleavage stage blastomeres disaggregated and cultured individually or in small groups frequently give rise to " false blastocysts " which appear to be composed of only TE ( 26 and references cited therein ) .
16 The brush-strokes have become smaller and more numerous , and perspective is distorted to such an extent that the buildings occasionally appear to be composed of completely dislocated or dissociated walls and roofs .
17 Policy is not consistent at different stages of education ; there is , for example , no clearly defined national policy for pre-school education ( widely recognised as being the most crucial stage for deaf children ) , and further and adult continuing education appear to be viewed in terms of direct provision of training and qualifications ( Department of Education and Science , 1991 ) rather than as routes into training and qualifications from the policy perspective .
18 Such generalizations appear to be viewed as acceptable when referring to sex differences .
19 When describing what health means to them personally a different set of explanatory frameworks appear to be invoked ( Table 6.2 ) .
20 They appear to be jammed against the adjacent cratonic block and are known as contracted continental-margin orogens .
21 Circular and linear DNA appear to be cleaved using different mechanisms , and cleavage of linear DNA may require a second endonuclease molecule .
22 Early word uses , as well as later ones , provide insight into children 's hypotheses about word meanings and the conceptual categories on which the hypotheses appear to be based ( e.g. , Clark , 1983b ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) .
23 The conditions for sustained growth outlined in the autumn statement appear to be based on the idea of a revival in consumer spending rather than an investment-led recovery .
24 In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) .
25 They will want to know about a childminder who fails to provide a safe environment or where children appear to be neglected or ill cared for .
26 There does not , however , appear to be recorded significant rise in core body temperature during moderate weight training .
27 If a similar plot for a set of randomly-generated stream patterns shows the same result then it can be concluded , that in the absence of geological and topographical controls , stream patterns appear to be generated by random processes .
28 The first time the adventurers make any attempt to break it , tell them that the figure of Khorne appears to move in the frame and the eyes of the god appear to be turned on them .
29 The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old .
30 Objects like cannonballs and planets try to move on a straight line through space-time , but because space-time is curved , warped , rather than flat , their paths appear to be bent .
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