Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be fixed [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 2 | Their eyes were fixed on each other in cold fury , their hands placed on the table , palms down , and they seemed to be waiting — waiting for |
| 3 | But her feet were fixed with six-inch nails to the floor . |
| 4 | The earth is the resource base for human life ; its nature is fixed by physical processes — which can be altered both endogenously ( within the physical system ) and exogenously ( by human action ) — but identification of aspects of the environment as a resource is a human creation . |
| 5 | So either we shall have to disallow such a possibility and decree that nothing qualifies as a genuine proposition unless its truth-value is fixed for all time , i.e. that all propositions are what is sometimes called " eternal " propositions , or we shall have to accept that truth-value is not an integral part of the objective propositional content . |
| 6 | His eyes were fixed on one of the pictures of the past Baskervilles on the wall . |
| 7 | Although the amount of his fine was fixed at 2,000 marks as early as October 1292 , he remained in prison in the Tower and later in Winchester Castle till 1294 , when his release was obtained in return for a promise by Henry and his sureties to pay the fine off at the rate of 300 marks a year . |