Example sentences of "[vb base] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I think how bleak the house was when I lived there alone , I never cease to be thankful for her presence . |
| 2 | Patients cease to be infectious within two weeks of starting treatment , ’ said Dr Philip Mannion from the Public Health Laboratory Service . |
| 3 | The traditional marginal conditions of simple price theory cease to be operative in the presence of Keynesian unemployment . |
| 4 | I never cease to be amazed at the damage human beings do to one another . |
| 5 | As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers . |
| 6 | I NEVER cease to be amazed at poor driving standards and lack of road manners shown by many drivers today . |
| 7 | Overall , the image gives a feel of the nature of diversification during development , since as a cell proceeds down a pathway and takes one of the branches , other pathways cease to be open to it . |
| 8 | Additionally , most published publication counts refer to active practitioners , rather than to Ph D students , many of whom cease to be active in the subject field of their training . |
| 9 | Additionally , most published publication counts refer to active practitioners , rather than to Ph D students , many of whom cease to be active in the subject field of their training . |
| 10 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 11 | Sometimes one , possibly two patients , appear to be central to the outbreak and should , if possible , be moved to another setting . |
| 12 | So , to the extent that changes in Y t are due to such changes in v t rather than will appear to be unaffected by expected income as we measure it , and therefore we shall obtain an estimate of α 1 which will tend to be less than the true value of α : 1 . |
| 13 | The ‘ blood and gore ’ witches appear to be strong in the South of England , especially in and around London . |
| 14 | In the second ( more profound and unconscious ) , the reader engages with certain associations that appear to be personal to the reader and that come together as one , central fantasy . |
| 15 | Psychiatrists themselves are not certain exactly how they work but they replace certain amines which appear to be low in those suffering depression . |
| 16 | The pattern of grouping described here is probably unique to Oxford United 's ground , but analogues of such groups appear to be present at all league club grounds — with the possible exception of some of the very small Fourth Division grounds . |
| 17 | CREB and ATF1 appear to be present at similar levels in immunoprecipitates obtained with the CREB antibody ( lane 2 ) suggesting that most of the CREB is in the form of a heterodimer with ATF1 . |
| 18 | Interestingly , German managers whilst not showing any difference in their feelings of physical health , did show superior psychological health compared to their British counterparts , and these appear to be due to their more frequently and effectively using stress-coping techniques such as ‘ social support ’ , ‘ task strategies ’ , ‘ time ’ and ‘ involvement ’ . |
| 19 | In an inquisitorial process of this kind lawyers do not stand out as good investigators ; they appear to be obsessed with the necessity to attribute blame . |
| 20 | Perhaps that is sufficient reason for claiming that postmodern organization forms appear to be implicit in these developments . |
| 21 | Many of the basic foot patterns in kung fu appear to be simple in their execution and the fact is that they are . |
| 22 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 23 | Dust filters and biological air filters appear to be capable of achieving considerable success in removing odours but can be fairly expensive , and new developments are taking place all the time , for example compost soil filters have been developed mainly in Germany and are being investigated by Warren Springs Laboratory . |
| 24 | Among them are such features as the screes of the Lake District , which may be fossil forms due to frost shattering in the closing phases of the Pleistocene ; dry valleys in Chalk areas , which have been discussed in Chapter 7 ; some of the gravel river terraces , which , although composed of coarse gravel , have gradients less than those of present rivers , which appear to be capable of transporting no material coarser than sand and mud . |
| 25 | Fine songs such as ‘ Mean To Me ’ or ‘ I Ca n't Get Started ’ appear to be close to perfect here but such trifles as ‘ With Thee I Swing ’ and ‘ You 're Too Lovely To Last ’ are just as charming because the singer gives them the same sensitive treatment . |
| 26 | Because of the nature of the terrain — the land rocky and barren , the coastline highly indented — villages which appear to be close on the map can often be as far as 30 miles apart by winding road . |
| 27 | Although these results appear to be consistent with the short-term/long-term distinction inherent in Wagner 's theory , they do not require us to make the distinction . |
| 28 | ‘ You appear to be ignorant of the proper way to behave in an office of this kind . |
| 29 | Again , in some areas where conditions throughout appear to be favourable to corals , coral reefs and banks will be found on some submerged banks and not on others , for example in the Laccadive Islands in the Indian Ocean . |
| 30 | Both items appear to be Roman in origin . |