Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | facilitate large-scale curriculum change by being both formative and summative in its impact . |
| 2 | An alternative method for dealing with vector elements of different lengths is for an increment value of one always to be used , but for the modifier field to be suitably manipulated when an element is accessed . |
| 3 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
| 4 | Little wonder , then , that the Tory party is laughed at even by its continental sister parties for being so backward and Victorian . |
| 5 | One idea is that we pick up all sorts of information during our waking hours without being consciously aware that we are doing so ; the function of dreaming is to allow our brain to process all this information at the unconscious level . |
| 6 | It might be doubted whether Ragnvald 's sons , who were first put forward as Cnut 's opponents at Holy River long ago , would have been sufficiently well known in England for the Chronicle entry to be readily intelligible , but this is not certain , and an annalist naming leaders of large Swedish forces may have thought it obvious that they were Swedes themselves . |
| 7 | The listing , which is to raise £4.8m through a 38.5 per cent placing , will give the club a market capitalisation of £13m , worth about the same as Tottenham Hotspur , the only other English football club to be publicly owned . |
| 8 | Laboratory tests have shown the First Response Ovulation Prediction Test to be over 99% accurate . |
| 9 | One of his main pieces of evidence is the failure of the ‘ announcement ’ effect of the result on the stock exchange to be strongly supportive with the theory . |
| 10 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 11 | In this paper , we focus on those results of our research that ( 1 ) suggest that profession-centred approaches to social service provision should be modified ; ( 2 ) team models of practice need to be more widely adopted ; ( 3 ) both professionals and paraprofessionals need specific training for effective team functioning ; ( 4 ) paraprofessional training must affirm and build upon indigenous characteristics and skills ; and ( 5 ) more attention needs to be devoted to career advancement opportunities for paraprofessional personnel . |
| 12 | Now some clubs are quite happy for an ad to be there and for the golf club name to be there . |
| 13 | ( Since we have taken the concentration diffusivity to be effectively zero , this is sufficient to give the effect we are looking for ) . |
| 14 | They differ from Atlantic reef flats in being considerably higher in relation to tide levels . |
| 15 | When , it is possible for the horizontal concentration variations to be effectively the same as the vertical ones whilst horizontal temperature variations are much reduced from the vertical . |
| 16 | How many people now remember his humiliation as chancellor of the Exchequer , turning back on a trip to Heathrow en route for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund in order that he could draft an application for a loan from the same organisation , then appearing in the Blackpool bear garden to be publicly abused ? |
| 17 | Merseytravel finance director John Wilkinson said he did not now expect another toll increase to be even considered for another 12 months . |
| 18 | You 're full of crap Laura to be quite honest with you ! |
| 19 | In RENFE , centralized bargaining could not prevent national agreements , and even statutory provisions , on hours of work and overtime maxima from being regularly flouted . |
| 20 | To hide what could be an eyesore , Ken has built a housing around the water butt and bath that has echoes of the tea house without being obviously Japanese . |
| 21 | Valor Dream Decorative Gas These differ from Living Flame Effect Fires by being entirely open , although once again , they are designed to simulate solid fuel coal or log fires . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I am very grateful to Wedgwood for sponsoring me and I have found the course work to be very valuable in relation to my job . |
| 23 | Such a reform would be welcome indeed and would remove the existing bias towards ‘ the great and the good ’ but would it enable the broadcasting authorities to be more assertive in their dealings with governments ? |
| 24 | Out of nowhere an amplifier , a Fender amplifier to be more precise , whistles pasts them and smashes into the concrete concourse in front of the hotel . |
| 25 | If we accept the ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ argument derived from the work of Kerr and Siegel ( see above , p. 108 ) , then we would expect all isolated mining communities to be equally strike-prone . |
| 26 | Furthermore it is possible for a high degree polynomial to be only slightly better than a low degree one ( even a straight line fit ) , whereas the higher degree fit will certainly require much more effort . |
| 27 | Other practical suggestions were that professional groups likely to come into contact with this issue need to be well informed and should be educated . |
| 28 | The work need to be carefully mounted and double checked for spelling or other errors . |
| 29 | Laski suggested that it was ‘ probably undesirable ’ for law officers to be suddenly made judges and so required to act impartially . |
| 30 | Finally , it is necessary for the standardisation sample to be sufficiently large to provide a fair reflection of the variation to be expected in the population . |