Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happens when a succession of items are placed one after another in a sentence without words to indicate their order or importance . |
| 2 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 3 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 4 | In your opinion if you 're offered something like that you should have your own mind and if you want to take it that 's your problem . |
| 5 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 6 | The theory has several distinctive aspects , the most important of which are these : ( a ) The insistence that units are ranked one above another in a definite order . |
| 7 | On arriving back in your room after a day at college , you should immediately ( do n't leave it until later ) transfer the day 's pages of notes to the individual Shelfolds that have been allocated one to each course or subject . |
| 8 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 9 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 10 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 11 | Ratio scales , to remind ourselves , contain all the properties of ordinal and interval scales with the additional one that they can be transformed one into another . |
| 12 | I was grateful to be called anything at all . |
| 13 | If these spaces are not to be compared one to another , and no original research has been carried out , what exactly is the purpose of this well-prepared book ? |
| 14 | Groups of gens related in this way from phratries and phratries may be linked one to another in a similar fashion to form tribes . |
| 15 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 16 | 2 If a word has a number of meanings which are a little different , then they are printed one after another and numbered . |
| 17 | In data manipulation on a parallel computer all bits of a word are processed at the same time , while on a serial computer the bits of a word are processed one after another . |
| 18 | British Columbia 's powerful timber industry — led by MacMillan Bloedel , the company that will be doing much of the cutting in Clayoquot — feigned relief at being given anything at all while bemoaning the loss of jobs that the mild restrictions would cause . |
| 19 | One asks whether we are now seeing tools being fashioned which by some future , perhaps less scrupulous , Government may be used to weaken the independent administration of justice and so undermine the rule of law . |
| 20 | ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . |
| 21 | Pat was infinitely available to Alice , helping with painting and cleaning ; between them the two women accomplished miracles , dingy caves being transformed one after another to fresh and lively rooms . |
| 22 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 23 | Hell , everybody I know 's done something like that at some time or another but that does n't make them a murderer ; I think McDunn 's crazy but I ca n't tell him that because , if he 's wrong about that and I 'm wrong about it being something to do with those guys who died in the Lake District a few years ago , then there 's only one suspect left and that 's me . |
| 24 | Let us assume as an example that a gene is isolated which in several mutated forms predisposes for schizophrenia . |
| 25 | ‘ No one 's invited you to this party ! ’ |
| 26 | Legal abortion is available here in a grudging way ; and if a woman is refused one for any reason , her only resort is a private operation if she 's determined to control her own body — or to go ahead and have the baby . |
| 27 | And it 's proved itself on many expeditions — you could live in it for weeks . |
| 28 | She is able to eat and drink normally on the day she is admitted but on the following day is allowed nothing at all by mouth for 4 hours prior to surgery . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really . |
| 30 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |