Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the House of Commons has always contained some MPs who take an informed interest in the subject , they are in a small minority , irrespective of Party allegiance , being heavily outnumbered by those who are guided more by what they sense to be the prevailing expectations of the public . |
| 2 | It is very often the intangible and indeterminate savings which provide to be of major significance . |
| 3 | In fact it must have always been his intention , after this grand restructuring to retire , and in 1980 the PS elected Diop to be party president . |
| 4 | And once changes are agreed , they cease to be the adjustments of the Government . |
| 5 | I never cease to be amazed at the damage human beings do to one another . |
| 6 | ‘ When I think how bleak the house was when I lived there alone , I never cease to be thankful for her presence . |
| 7 | Overall , the image gives a feel of the nature of diversification during development , since as a cell proceeds down a pathway and takes one of the branches , other pathways cease to be open to it . |
| 8 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 9 | The law provides that if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months to attend any meeting of the local authority he shall , unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the local authority before the expiry of that period , cease to be a member of the authority . |
| 10 | These principles should n't be forgotten or cease to be put into effect simply because your child is becoming a young adult . |
| 11 | Individual hands contained all kinds of more or less cursive elements , but the hands themselves cease to be worth classifying except by the dedicated palaeographer , pursuing studies or hypotheses in great detail . |
| 12 | As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers . |
| 13 | It would be niggling to say that where a writer has used assistants his data cease to be primary , but it would also be foolish to ignore the fact that the more people there are involved in a project , the more opportunities there are for errors to creep in . |
| 14 | Staleness can set in , so that one partner or both cease to be inventive , settle for the familiar and thus fail to move the partnership along . |
| 15 | We hope you will never suffer from them ; but , never cease to be upon your guard . |
| 16 | Most toddlers experience a severe shaking of the foundations when the next child is born and they cease to be the baby . |
| 17 | During the summer months , the times of reproduction , there is ample food available to sustain the increased need , but when winter comes not only does food cease to be so readily available here , there and everywhere but the intake itself has to be much more varied . |
| 18 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 19 | Furthermore , different religions may need different symbols , and it is only when they are treated as fetishes , or when they become the means whereby one religion claims superiority over another , that they cease to be of value and are fit only to be discarded . |
| 20 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 21 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 22 | I never cease to be amazed , nor draw encouragement , from the floods of letters we receive ( a few of them even complimentary ! ) and the level of response that competitions and requests for info/opinions/lies/rubbish precipitate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Further , decisions about the needs of kin , and whether one has a duty to put them before one 's own interests , cease to be static sets of responsibilities and become matters for judgement at a particular point in time , with such judgements being related both to the economic circumstances then prevailing , and to the situation of all the other members of the family group . |
| 25 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 26 | The managers become a self-selecting body and cease to be effectively monitored by the shareholders once in office . |
| 27 | Only after the contract takes effect does the agent ( putatively ) ‘ cease to be a person ’ . |
| 28 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 29 | Timber buildings may simply rot and collapse , and other features such as pits and ditches will silt up very rapidly once they cease to be maintained . |
| 30 | The contributions of speaker B cease to be attempts to add anything to the conversational topic . |