Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 2 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 3 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 4 | Sometimes these forms are overtly referred to and talked about , for example in those communities which have clear notions of " correct " grammar and " standard " language . |
| 5 | and it will take some of those runners … a few days … a few weeks to recover but believe it or not they 're already talking about and planning next year 's race |
| 6 | The few successes on the UK OTC market are always quoted as if to make up for the failures . |
| 7 | In some localities market prices of residential property are directly linked to and affected by school catchment areas , where a school has a very good or very bad reputation . |
| 8 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 9 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 10 | In this book Nash brings together those works of popular fiction ( hereafter popfiction ) , which are traditionally conceived of as lying outside the literary canon and linguistic theories pertaining to discourse analysis and the stylistic analysis of fiction . |
| 11 | Given the relative invisibility of these crimes , even to those victimized , the fact that they are infrequently reported to or detected by relevant authorities , the absence of any centralized data-collecting agency , and the inconsistent publication of those that are collected , it is impossible to quantify with any accuracy just how serious corporate crime is in economic terms . |
| 12 | new evidence has become available which could not have been reasonably known of or foreseen ; or |
| 13 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 14 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |
| 15 | Evidently , as pointed out in section 4.5 , approaches via damped oscillations which are often referred to as ringing . |
| 16 | Most experienced social workers and therapists have had clients who , confessedly or otherwise , have been sexually attracted towards and/or have fallen in love with them . |
| 17 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 18 | ‘ Many teachers are now suffering from or showing signs of stress-related illnesses so that they wish to take early retirement , some on the grounds of ill-health , or are eager to leave the profession altogether , ’ the Belfast secondary teacher added . |
| 19 | In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed , with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness . |
| 20 | No Practice … shall be required to contest any legal proceedings unless a Queen 's Counsel ( to be mutually agreed upon or failing agreement to be appointed by the President of the [ Law ] Society for the time being ) shall advise that such proceedings should be contested . |
| 21 | The manager himself seemed like a distant god to be both wondered at and feared . |
| 22 | ‘ They 've got to be carefully looked after and tested . |
| 23 | An organisation 's objectives , particularly the relative priorities of different goals , may not be clearly conveyed to or understood by individuals . |
| 24 | Again in Capital Marx set out to demonstrate that the workings of an entire economic system could be logically derived from and explained by a few materialist premises and the theory of class struggle . |
| 25 | This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer . |
| 26 | All of our departments are built round customer needs therefore they need to be regularly looked at and updated . |
| 27 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 28 | If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety . |
| 29 | The work plan timetable will highlight specific requirements which must be either budgeted for or planned as appropriate . |
| 30 | This is especially so where ‘ recitation ’ or transmission patterns of teaching are strongly approved of and supported by other members of the school community , not least the pupils themselves . |