Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , like environmentalism , the animal protection movement appears to be split between pragmatic and idealistic factions . |
| 2 | It would seem that the primary activity of operations needs to be split into direct and indirect costs , with the latter analysed into major cost-driver categories as interpreted by Kaplan . |
| 3 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 4 | Communication links between the ‘ explorers ’ and the ‘ implementers ’ need to be strong , although they are just as likely to be based on informal as distinct from formal communications patterns and networks . |
| 5 | Let's just say that the serious lack of accountability in some schemes leaves them wide open to be abused for private and illegal gain . |
| 6 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 7 | The National Curriculum orders for each study unit need to be turned into meaningful and workable schemes of work and class activities . |
| 8 | Consequently they attend for.treatment late , reluctantly , often unwillingly , and are more likely to be treated in locked or secure settings as their fear leads to aggression , violence and a cycle of anxiety and rejection by staff . |
| 9 | In Kuhn 's account of science the values operative in the process of science and determining the acceptance and rejection of theories are to be discerned by psychological and sociological analysis of the scientific community . |
| 10 | A hard line was to be maintained for violent and sexual offences with provisions for longer sentences , and Crown Courts were to be given the powers to impose heavier sentences than the individual offence justified , to persistent offenders deemed to be a public risk . |
| 11 | And this arrangement , in turn , may have to be maintained by political or ideological means . |
| 12 | No one wants to project an image of schools as humourless places , a balance needs to be kept between frivolous and serious stories . |
| 13 | Today , lesbians are more likely to be studied in woman-centred than in egalitarian feminist psychology . |
| 14 | The report said there was a shortfall of ‘ 121 employee hours a week , some 25pc , to be covered by part-time or casual staff . |
| 15 | There is more room for favouritism or vindictiveness in a system that permits manufacturers of automobiles and of washing machines to be governed by different and contradictory principles of liability . |
| 16 | Accelerated promotion in an East Indiaman was only to be obtained through political or family interest , such as that exerted by the Earl of Findlater upon James Oswald of Dunnikier . |
| 17 | It 's clear from from that sort of policy that the need for or benefits arising from the development would always have to be assessed against environmental and other considerations , for example , regional strategy . |
| 18 | The sexual instinct , now re-defined as the racial instinct , was to be channelled into healthy and responsible parenthood . |
| 19 | Full provision is to be made for current and deferred taxation at the local statutory rate applicable , which for the United Kingdom is to be 35% . |
| 20 | Full use needs to be made of tactile and sensory experiences . |
| 21 | In cultural matters in the 1930s , as in all else , there was a choice to be made between Good and Evil . |
| 22 | An important series of research projects that does allow some judgment to be made between selective and non-selective schools in the comprehensive system has been undertaken at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University . |
| 23 | To discourage unnecessary circumcisions a distinction needs to be made between physiological and pathological non-retractility . |
| 24 | Jack Babuscio has suggested that the homosexual experience of passing for straight leads to a ‘ heightened awareness and appreciation tor disguise , impersonation , the projection of personality , and the distinctions to be made between instinctive and theatrical behaviour ’ ( ‘ Camp and the Gay Sensibility ’ , 45 ) . |
| 25 | In order to obviate the criticism of increasing intraoesophageal pH being related to salivation , however , the present study has extended the application of simultaneous ambulatory oesophageal and gastric pH monitoring and enabled a valid correlation to be made between oesophageal and gastric alkalinisation . |
| 26 | This allowed a comparison to be made between matriculated and non matriculated students and between those students with and without recent previous study experience . |
| 27 | Terminology is required in particular here to allow distinctions to be made between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to language , and to show that the grammar of spoken English is different from that of written English , and not just a haphazard deviation from it . |
| 28 | I often order fish and ask for it to be cooked without fat and for any rice or potatoes to be fat-free too . |
| 29 | The Moscow authorities have announced that checks are to be conducted on private and commercial vehicles for excessive exhaust emissions . |
| 30 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |