Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can accept this concept , you will then be able to understand in principle why some people are predisposed to some illnesses or tend to be sensitive to certain types of dietary changes , groups of food , or nutritional deficiencies . |
| 2 | 31 firms either were not or ceased to be eligible for registration . |
| 3 | On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states . |
| 4 | erm that 's the doubt and that doubt is going to be either borne out or shown to be wrong by the rest of John Major 's incumbents , so at the moment I 'll certainly give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 5 | In this case , as in the poems discussed by Green , no addressee is mentioned or seems to be present within the evoked setting , so that the poetic persona can be imagined either as a thinking mind or as a speaker talking to himself in a solitary environment . |
| 6 | We will either transform it into a new liberating future or continue to be subject to its tyranny whether we recognize its power or not . ’ |
| 7 | Meetings were often held in museums or educational institutions specially built or refurbished to be ready for the great occasion . |
| 8 | These categories include people who have been refused leave to enter Britain , refused entry clearance , deported , or considered to be involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws , Elton told the House of Lords . |
| 9 | Section 2 of the 1920 Act provides that communicating with a foreign agent is evidence of obtaining or attempting to obtain information calculated or intended to be useful to an enemy contrary to section 1 of the Act . |
| 10 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 11 | The expert literature tells social workers ( and other professionals in the field ) that there are certain types of injuries to , and behaviour from , children that tend to be indicative of child abuse ( Thompson , 1981 ; Johnson , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | My amendments are not designed to cover every eventuality , which of course would be a practical impossibility , but are aimed at the provisions that tend to be common to most agreements and leases . |
| 13 | It is the story that has to be meaningful to , and has to have significance for , the individual reader . |
| 14 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 15 | In the second ( more profound and unconscious ) , the reader engages with certain associations that appear to be personal to the reader and that come together as one , central fantasy . |
| 16 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 17 | The theoretical view seems to offer a convenient framework for a broad division of history into periods which can be described by innovations that appear to be characteristic of each . |
| 18 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 19 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 20 | Shipton would have been saddened to see the old rotting tins and abandoned jerrycans that seemed to be typical of all military movement in this area . |
| 21 | Finding it impossible to break into movies after the production slump of the 1940s , before television offered an alternative route to aspiring filmmakers , people like Anderson , Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz worked instead within sponsored documentaries , while writing about the sort of passionate , personal filmmaking that seemed to be possible in France , Italy , even India , but not in Britain . |
| 22 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 23 | Its digital nature is not an incidental fact that happens to be true of genetic information technology . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's nothing more depressing than pretending to be jolly in a prison camp . ’ |
| 25 | Materials that happen to be available in the school , including even seriously inadequate ones , can be brought into play and yield educationally valuable material if approached from a point of view of real understanding on the teacher 's part . |
| 26 | They may therefore be found within many other text types contained with the LOB , and used in a manner that tends to be consistent across each domain . |
| 27 | In this paper , we identify a number of conditions that seem to be conducive to their optimum level of functioning . |
| 28 | It is the complexity of the decoding and responding that seems to be under-represented in this model , as can be seen in the communication model if the following is substituted : |
| 29 | This structure extends over 0.3° ( 45pc ) but is part of an even more extensive 1° ( 140pc ) -shaped lobe that appears to be perpendicular to the plane and is reminiscent of the prominences and flares that protrude from the surface of the Sun ( Fig. 6 a ) . |
| 30 | Far from being dogmatic , our objective is to achieve the best possible delivery of health care through a health service that continues to be free at the point of delivery to patients . |