Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I kiss you , will I be prosecuted for sexual harassment when we get back to England ? ’ |
| 2 | Why , then , should I be moved by cold or a stomach cramp ? |
| 3 | Will you be provided with free uniforms , or do you have to purchase these for yourself ? |
| 4 | You will not have to depend on now or never clinical demonstrations in the clinical room ; nor will you be reduced to knock-kneed terror at the prospect of a viva voce examination . |
| 5 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |
| 6 | But new research suggests the very damage caused by humans could itself be countered by violent volcanic activity . |
| 7 | Could something be done about fair trade ? |
| 8 | How much more may we be biased against direct competition ? |
| 9 | ‘ By all means let there be challenges for the promotion of better health , but let them be based on sound reasoning . |
| 10 | Let them be listed in increasing order as unc [ so that unc etc . ] . |
| 11 | Tiles can be pushed right or left , but not up or down — should they be pushed into mid air , gravity takes affect and they fall . |
| 12 | With the benefit of hindsight er could the tornado programme have been made more efficient with the lessons that you 've learnt so far , er from er Eurofighter an and secondly , perhaps more difficult , er the lessons you have learned from tornado and certainly from the current project , could they be transferred to other complicated collaborative er project , programmes like cobra and ? |
| 13 | Does the idea of homology apply only to morphological patterns , he asks , or can it be applied to developmental processes ? |
| 14 | How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ? |
| 15 | The analogy holds in so far as stylistic competence , like linguistic competence , is a capacity which we possess and exercise unconsciously and intuitively : only with special training can it be turned into explicit knowledge . |
| 16 | Not only can it be introduced by contaminated water changes but it is also self-generated as part of the biological filtration cycle . |
| 17 | Nor can it be spread on frozen ground . |
| 18 | How can it be discharged on adequate funding ? |
| 19 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 20 | When will it be consolidated into proper' mathematical theory' ? |
| 21 | They 'll also require details of how you 'll be using your new kitchen : ie , will it be used for entertaining , storage purposes , or doing homework , in addition to more usual activities ? |
| 22 | He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing . |
| 23 | And will he be encouraged in future to do pets and their owners ? ) |
| 24 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 25 | Decisions on management structures may themselves be decided on political rather than efficiency grounds ( see Ch. 5 ) . |
| 26 | Attempts to order , regulate and to ‘ tidy up ’ the apparently haphazard configurations of nature can themselves be regarded as neutral processes . |
| 27 | On the vexed question of how far soldiers and sailors should themselves be subjected to compulsory periodic genital inspection , medics and military chiefs were divided . |
| 28 | Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect . |
| 29 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |