Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
| 2 | You can even scan for viruses that would normally be missed by a standard scanner because it would have been hidden away in an archive file . |
| 3 | These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’ |
| 4 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 6 | Some of the fruits of his literary labours are gathered here in an anthology sourced from newspaper writings and his previous books , with scrutinies of most of the top players of the past few years , Test and county . |
| 7 | Instead of just inspecting records within the Input range you can define n output range so that all the records found as a result of the search are gathered together into a separate table . |
| 8 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 9 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 10 | Theses are assigned exclusively to a single category in all of the above lists . |
| 11 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 12 | Cenwulf 's dealings with Sussex are witnessed only by a grant to the bishop of Selsey from 801 . |
| 13 | Faltering 17th-century attempts at ecumenical dialogue between western Protestants and eastern Orthodox churches are treated here in an entertaining piece , whose footnotes also show with what insolent and deliberate ease Dacre can out-pedant any pedant . |
| 14 | I know any number of indigent dames who have found such employment , and they are treated quite as a member of the family . ’ |
| 15 | For girls caught up in this nexus of processes , the effect is that the feminine role , the ‘ little housewife ’ role and self-definition are blended together in an ‘ unselfconscious complex of unobstructed behaviour ’ . |
| 16 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 17 | The Review covers some 90 countries , which are listed alphabetically with a resumé of the press and general media situation in each country . |
| 18 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 19 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 20 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 21 | That is to say that they were demand led , except perhaps in their respective " manias " when a number must be viewed as having been undertaken ahead of a demand . |
| 22 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |
| 23 | Economic questions have been left largely to social policy analysts to look at , and much of their writing has been placed squarely within a radical framework often described by the term ‘ the political economy of ageing ’ . |
| 24 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 25 | On the left breast of his tunic the insignia of the Legion d'Honneur glimmered among a broad cluster of medals , and his plumed tricorn had been placed ostentatiously on a table at his side . |
| 26 | On the village green is a stone block said to have been placed there by a local lord of short stature , to help him mount his horse . |
| 27 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 28 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 29 | Three species of arctic residents , Lapland longspurs , snow buntings and rock ptarmigan , are joined annually by a dozen species of long-distance migrants — red-throated divers ( loons ) Gavia stellata , arctic terns Sterna paradisaea , oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis , common and king eider Somateria mollissima and S . |
| 30 | letters which are joined together as a single unit of type such as oe and fi . |