Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willy 's synthetic abstractions which generalize and falsify are countered by her analytic and critical re-writing of Herodotus . |
| 2 | Unlike the /Ε/; lowering rule , the velar-raising rule is not confined to short-vowel environments ( that is , before the voiceless velar stop ) , but also applies when a voiced velar follows ( that is , in long-vowel environments ) : thus bag , bang are realized with [ Ε : ] . |
| 3 | Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit . |
| 4 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 5 | In the proposed research the potential contention and ambiguity in British social life which such matters entail are addressed through the study of self-consciously peaceful communities . |
| 6 | The persuasive and analytic skills you develop are applied during your course to literary works and issues ; but they have the additional value that they are potentially transferable to other problems and circumstances . |
| 7 | Those who remain are employed in maintenance and repair work . |
| 8 | But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port . |
| 9 | The pieces that remain are sought after and valuable , and even chairs that were originally very cheap are in demand . |
| 10 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 11 | The issues members raise are related to ignorant , inconsiderate or criminal people . |
| 12 | I 'm a monumental mason and the gravestones that I make Are carved of flesh and bone from the carcases I take |
| 13 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 14 | These poor folk , whose lack of privilege is just one of the many thrusting reasons that have sent me to the bosom , not to mention the buttocks , of today 's quite heavenly Labour Party , may find that my pronunciamentos become somewhat impenetrable once past the ninth , tenth , or even twenty-third of their constituent subordinate clauses , so that the very juicy and surprisingly supple points that I make are lost amidst their attendant persiflage . |
| 15 | The decisions that they make are gon na be based on comers commercial considerations , not health , so I 'm sure the doctors wo n't be wo n't be bothered with decisions , Councillor because the accountants will be making them for them . |
| 16 | The buffalo and elk hide are decorated with red cloth and beads , sewn with a sinew . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 18 | Details on these craft are shown in the caption to the diagram on page 41 , but MTB 74 was an unusual ship even among these fast midgets . |
| 19 | All of the findings we report are based on the assumption that this questionnaire can accurately and reproducibly detect a change in anxiety , even when the same questionnaire is administered twice with just one hour between each assessment . |
| 20 | Now when erm you say are supplying at the moment . |
| 21 | The pelargoniums we grow are derived from wild species native to South Africa , and it 's interesting to see some of these plants in Hazel 's collection . |
| 22 | That 's correct Chairman I think erm , we will be looking obviously to see what the prospects were within er the urban area and er sites do and surprisingly do continue to arrive and come up and we some other uses , erm they would make some contribution obviously erm , the other options would as you say be to look beyond beyond the greenbelt at the opportunities that are available there . |
| 23 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 24 | More important was the fact that one was a Copt and one a Moslem , which gave hope that , honour being satisfied on both sides , the exchanges might not be carried further . |
| 25 | Odds ratios for HEV were calculated for each covariate separately with or Fisher 's tests . |
| 26 | Were erm only certain men allowed or er say were trusted with the job of stowing |
| 27 | M. B. I never forget being called by a superintendent , who said : ‘ Sergeant Bullock , you 're acting inspector over the weekend . |
| 28 | ‘ The repeated testing is leading to problems in that animals now associate being put in a crush with being tested and one can get considerable stress in older animals . |
| 29 | This process can be shown by normal carbon dioxide being passed through a tube containing algae in water with the heavier O isotope and carbon dioxide with the heavier O isotope being passed through another tube containing the same type of algae in normal water . |
| 30 | Stage I sleep is defined in terms of the EEG and EOG records as consisting of a low voltage EEG with some slow activity , and occasional vertex sharp waves , and slow rolling eye movements ( see example . ) |