Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | These principles should n't be forgotten or cease to be put into effect simply because your child is becoming a young adult . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The oral papillae appear to be arranged in three tiers . |
| 7 | Moreover , as revealed by in situ hybridization analysis , the GGFs appear to be expressed in the nervous system during embryonic development . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Very few , however , appear to be planned in any way comparable with the cities of the province . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They appear to be jammed against the adjacent cratonic block and are known as contracted continental-margin orogens . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old . |
| 18 | He was dismissed by the colonial secretary , Lord Stanley ( later fourteenth Earl of Derby , q.v. ) , despite acknowledgement that ‘ his efforts appear to be rewarded by the decline of crimes of violence and outrage and by the growth of humane and kindly feeling in the minds of persons under his care . ’ |
| 19 | In this sense , the ‘ rules ’ of grammar appear to be treated in the same way as ‘ laws ’ in the physical sciences . |
| 20 | Similarly , several alternative splice forms have been observed in tenascin which appear to be regulated during development ( 28,29 ) . |
| 21 | In others , dehydration and the accumulation of glycerol or other antifreeze agents in the body fluids appear to be implicated in lowering the freezing point ( Danks , 1978 , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | As the guidance points out , ‘ there are occasions where objectivity may be threatened or appear to be threatened by the provision to an audit client of services other than the audit ’ . |
| 23 | The dorsal and anal fins of both male and female are a light burgundy to purple at the base , darkening at the outside , and they appear to be covered in small iridescent blue spots that are particularly striking under the right light . |
| 24 | But while the Velvet ones seem deliciously free of hang-up and come-downs , Perspex Whiteout appear to be hamstrung by all the social conventions that have crippled a worrying number of home-grown guitar could-have-beens . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , Bewdsley , since I appear to be saddled with this place , perhaps it is time you told me precisely what I am worth ? ’ |
| 26 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 27 | Both enzymes appear to be activated by viral double-stranded RNA . |
| 28 | While doing this they appear to be lost in pleasure and increasingly unaware of the world around them . |
| 29 | The protons and neutrons of everyday matter appear to be built from two types of quark , called — up ’ and ‘ down ’ or u and d . |
| 30 | The authorities appear to be ignored in practice with impunity , perhaps because there is frequently a power of arrest in situations in which the police at present exercise the ‘ power . ’ |