Example sentences of "[conj] be [vb pp] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary had fallen or been pushed into an open fire , more than once . |
| 2 | The defendants contend that their contractual right to indemnity costs entitles them to recover or retain all costs actually incurred save only those that are incurred otherwise than bona fide or are incurred for an improper motive . |
| 3 | If not accounted for they could contaminate a specimen under study or be mistaken as an important signal of something happening within the experimental investigation , whereas they are actually part of the ‘ noise ’ — the ‘ background ’ . |
| 4 | An SPR may either be generated by a user entirely within LIFESPAN or be received from an external client in paper form and subsequently transcribed into LIFESPAN . |
| 5 | An SPR may either be generated by a user entirely within LIFESPAN ( a Magnetic SPR ) or be received from an external client on a paper form and subsequently transcribed into LIFESPAN ( a Paper SPR ) . |
| 6 | ( c ) if , at the date of the offer , the offeror holds shares carrying 50 per cent or less of the voting rights attributable to the equity share capital , and the offer is for debentures or for non-equity share capital , the offer must include or be accompanied by an offer made by the offeror for the remainder of the shares comprised in the equity share capital ; |
| 7 | An ex-employee is thus allowed to make use of his own memory of the work he has carried out in his previous employment unless it involves genuine secrets or is covered by an express term in the contract of employment . |
| 8 | When groundwater flows naturally or is pumped from an unconfined aquifer , it drains from the pores . |
| 9 | Whether the Centre Mondial succeeds or fails as an exclusively French institution , or is reborn as an international entity , the ideas and purposes underlying its foundation will survive . |
| 10 | If one objective proves impossible to achieve or is preempted by an enemy move then there is a switch to the other objective . |
| 11 | Perhaps the task in hand is too easily achieved or is pitched at an inappropriate level . |
| 12 | In a television address on Nov. 14 Serrano stated that recognition was not a " definitive agreement " and that Guatemala would maintain its 130-year territorial claim over Belize until the matter was finally resolved by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) at The Hague or was put to an arbiter . |
| 13 | But the people of modern Egypt were not content with agriculture that was so seasonal , or was confined to an area that utilized only three per cent of their country . |
| 14 | The holder of the share or bond receives a stream of ( expected ) payments that are discounted at an appropriate rate over the remaining life of the security . |
| 15 | things that are driven by an engine |
| 16 | Halve the two numbers that are marked with an X in the original program . |
| 17 | Very few ideas that are taken to an OI will be adopted ( e.g. four out of 100 at Eastman Kodak Company , 1979–88 ) . |
| 18 | Courses in the earlier years introduce and develop the study of topics that are taken to an advanced level at honours — the pronunciation and grammar , and the functional , regional , and social varieties of present-day English and of the earlier periods of Old English , Middle English , and Early Modern English . |
| 19 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 20 | If , as the advocates of the theory hold , ideas and thoughts are ‘ inner ’ and ‘ private ’ , then how can a speaker and a hearer , a writer and a reader , ever know that the ideas and thoughts that are evoked by an utterance are the same as the ideas and thoughts expressed by it ? |
| 21 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | The Home Support Project was both an action project ( to provide a service for elderly people with dementia which would help those who wished to remain at home rather than be admitted to an institution ) and a research project ( to evaluate the success of the action project ) . |
| 23 | Her mother had pointed out to her that being married to an older man had its advantages . |
| 24 | The curious feature of the British constitution is that Britain has democratized institutions that were created in an undemocratic age . |
| 25 | The section deals with transactions prior to an individual bankruptcy that were conducted at an undervalue or constituted a preference . |
| 26 | The powerful techniques of molecular biology are now being applied to the classical problems of embryonic development that were studied by an older generation of biologists . |
| 27 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |
| 28 | The energy that is lost during an exothermic reaction is first transferred to the reaction mixture . |
| 29 | If the brake is not applied by the driver then it is applied automatically ; it is the frequency of these automatic braking incidents that is recorded as an error . |
| 30 | A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part-time workers or the unemployed . |