Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is how they are employed to explain social life . |
| 2 | When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible . |
| 3 | The buzz , the uninhibited , excited talking , yes , uninhibited talking , in a district where you were made to feel peculiar if you allowed any expression to cross your face in the street , died as the lights slowly faded . |
| 4 | Her frustrated jumping , which sent her thick , straight , dark hair — Anna 's hair — flying up and down like dog 's ears , was no more than a maddened expression of how she felt when reminded of school , of a world where she was doomed to remain odd . |
| 5 | He held a knife to her throat , sexually assaulted her and dragged her outside to the garden where she was forced to perform obscene acts . |
| 6 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 7 | But because his work was right in the heart of the the battle zone there were times when he was forced to kill Serbian soldiers , to save his own life and those of his patients . |
| 8 | A fixed charge may of course be attacked as a preference where it is given to secure past value but not as a transaction at an undervalue since the assets of the company are not diminished by the creation of the charge . |
| 9 | The other site was at Elstow in Bedfordshire , where it was intended to bury low-level waste in twenty-metre deep trenches , and then cover it in concrete . |