Example sentences of "be [verb] [is] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 2 | One way in which such factors are isolated is by comparing parents known to batter their children with a control group of parents who have no history of child abuse ( Lynch and Roberts 1977 , for example ) . |
| 3 | The submission which Mr. Lester makes on the other hand is not restricted by reference to the type of statute and indeed the only way in which it could be discovered whether help was to be given is by considering Hansard itself . |
| 4 | One area in which the duty to be diligent might usefully be developed is with regard to the installation and supervision by the board of adequate management systems . |
| 5 | The only way in which this ambiguity can be resolved is by appealing to higher levels of information such as syntax , semantics , pragmatics and general knowledge . |
| 6 | It is recognised that one of the areas where immediate progress can be made is in assisting disabled students . |
| 7 | One way in which the flexibility of microprogramming can be used is in providing several different computer architectures and instruction sets on one basic hardware . |
| 8 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 9 | One way in which the terms of competition in the single market may be affected is by granting state subsidies which favour certain undertakings or the production of certain goods in such a way as to affect inter-state trade . |
| 10 | The only way the magnitude of this building may be grasped is by seeing the model of Prague in the Prague City Museum ( see p. 158 ) . |
| 11 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 12 | As the distribution of collapse breccias is not related to any particular facies , the only way that their presence can be predicted is by identifying areas where uplift and exposure has occurred . |
| 13 | Perhaps the mistake we have been making is in applying that thinking to the Moslems but not to the Copts . ’ |
| 14 | One of the main ways in which the integration of information presented in successive sentences of a discourse has been investigated is by looking at memory for discourse . |
| 15 | As we will see in Chapter 9 , one way in which the organisation of the mental lexicon is being investigated is by studying the kinds of language disorders which adults suffer as a result of certain kinds of brain damage . |
| 16 | One way in which this has been achieved is by devising larger units for education in which physical geography is more closely allied with other earth and environmental sciences as noted by Clayton ( 1980a ) . |
| 17 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 18 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 19 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 20 | This is because the way that these patterns are read is by knitting two rows of each colour , starting with colour one , then colour two , then colour three before moving on to the next line of the double length pattern . |