Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 2 | About the withheld novel of mine she wrote nobly : ‘ It must not be spoiled by being adapted to the sensibilities of living persons . |
| 3 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 4 | ‘ However , the law must not be seen to be an ass . |
| 5 | At all costs aggressive behaviour must not be allowed to be rewarding . |
| 6 | A middle course may be achieved by the phrase : " for the purpose of delineation only " , which has been held to mean that the plan must not be taken to be drawn to scale but the lines are correct diagrammatically ( Re Freeman and Taylor 's Contract ( 1907 ) 97 LT 39 ) . |
| 7 | The Libyan quarrel was referred to Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria , a very well-educated man , who sided with those theologians who stressed the distinctness of Father and Son ; they should not be said to be of one being but to be as distinct as the husbandman and the vine . |
| 8 | An example engagement letter is set out in 1101.10 — please note that this is a live example and as such is the result of a series of negotiations — ie this should not be assumed to be our starting position . |
| 9 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 10 | County freeholders , often indiscriminately styled ‘ barons ’ , as indeed some of them were , whose estates had been erected into free baronies by a crown charter , were gentlemen landowners of the shire , the direct vassals of the crown , and most of them were fully conscious of holding a social position which demanded that they should not be seen to be in any man 's pocket . |
| 11 | This should not be suspected of being a new , strange phenomenon ; it is no more than an adjectival version of a syntactic process that is actually very common in more extended phrases , such as : ( 4 ) oddly familiar faces sadly indifferent spectators slightly old-fashioned courtesy Here , one property-word is qualified by another , which therefore does not apply directly to the noun ( or the entity behind it ) ; the faces are in fact definitely not odd , nor are the spectators sad , and there is no reason to suppose that the courtesy in the third case is slight . |
| 12 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 13 | Where there is a surety to the agreement and an assignment by the tenant is agreed by the landlord , it is advisable to ensure that while the surety may still be forced to be bound by the obligations on its part contained in the agreement , the surety should not be forced to be a party to the lease . |
| 14 | It is recognised that nurses must care for patients during recognised holidays but they should not be expected to be in the classroom . |
| 15 | All these feelings are normal and should not be thought to be ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 16 | If God intended that parents should not be permitted to come between a husband and a wife , then surely football pals or the darts team , the sports club , or any other activity should not be allowed to be an obstacle to this new relationship . |
| 17 | In any case , the ideology of the RCC was that women should not be treated exactly the same as men : women are human beings , and therefore equal to men , but they are also more delicate , more beautiful and gentler — they are like flowers , and should not be compelled to be manlike and false to their nature . |
| 18 | Certainly , to the accountant , there is no reason why those doctors who are high spenders in their prescribing habits , should not be held to be financially accountable for their decisions . |
| 19 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 20 | The value when repaired for these purposes should always be taken to be the insured value . |
| 21 | The fact that about 50% of all patients experienced minor faecal leakage in the first year after operation , discouraged the use of restorative proctocolectomy in older patients in whome the operative risk must also be assumed to be greater . |
| 22 | Perfect cleanliness is the commercial ideal , but the clothes must also be seen to be clean . |
| 23 | In specific terms , we can take this to mean : that war remains a political act ; that war must also be understood to be a revolutionising act ; and , finally , that it thereby acquires the potential to become ‘ absolute war ’ — whose corollary is total victory and absolute peace . |
| 24 | Phil joined the Palace in February 1984 for a modest £10,000 fee from Aylesbury Town , but he soon established himself as a valuable member of our League side , playing either on the left of midfield or up front as a striker , and he must probably be reckoned to be the best signing made for our club by manager Alan Mullery . |
| 25 | This perspective , says Rommetveit ( 1982 ) , makes arguments about the ‘ truth conditions ’ of utterances sterile , since what we should really be looking at is how the participants themselves constructed such an appearance . |
| 26 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 27 | We have already mentioned background music , although this should really be expanded to be the public address system , as almost always the background music is fed by the same amplification and uses the same speakers as the guest paging system . |
| 28 | We must simply be seen to be stating a right and not advising or recommending anything . |
| 29 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 30 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |