Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although an increased susceptibility to hepatotoxicity may be contributory , the main reason for the continuing high mortality from paracetamol overdose is that many patients still present to medical care too late after ingestion for an antidote to be given according to standard guidelines . |
| 2 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 3 | Immunohistochemistry can not distinguish between different immunologically cross reactive proteins , but biochemically these can often be differentiated according to molecular weight using immunoblotting . |
| 4 | Charles saw the wisdom of maintaining local traditions of justice in the varied regions of his great realm , and gave instructions that cases should be heard according to regional laws . |
| 5 | Rumour had it that , particularly towards the end of the financial year when sales targets were a few thousand off and hopes of bonuses were beginning to fade , the sound of the office globe could be heard spinning as anxious sales staff searched the world for the magic market that would bring home the bacon . |
| 6 | In May Aboriginal campaigners persuaded Edinburgh University , in Scotland , to return the remains of more than 300 Aborigines from its anthropological collection in order that they could be reburied according to Aboriginal traditions . |
| 7 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 8 | An octopus can be taught to discriminate between vertical and horizontal bars , but it is unable to learn the difference between the bars at +45° and at -45° . |
| 9 | The last group of flow-visualization methods to be considered consists of optical techniques making use of refractive index variations in the fluid . |
| 10 | It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored . |
| 11 | it can be modified to run on unleaded petrol |
| 12 | It was Ellie Milligan 's intention never to be caught crying in public again . |
| 13 | The teaching task is to see that the techniques that are used are effective in promoting learning objectives , so they have to be designed to account for specific contexts of instruction . |
| 14 | The specialist brochures should be designed to elaborate on particular features for particular consumer groups , and may contain more diagrammatic and other illustrative material to do this . |
| 15 | But ALT will be designed to operate across distributed computing environments . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 17 | A line can be programmed to vary in effective length . |
| 18 | The UK Atomic Energy Authority , in a " worst-case scenario " , suggested that some 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide . |
| 19 | In a " worst-case scenario " , the UK Atomic Energy Authority has suggested that up to 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide . |
| 20 | If questioned about the response , the attitude-holder can be expected to engage in explicit justification of their stance and to offer criticism of the counter-stance . |
| 21 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 22 | However such effects might be expected to arise from relative inflation rates rather than a UK measure alone . |
| 23 | Troops from both sides would be expected to assemble at predetermined points around the country within one month of the ratification of the treaty ; they would surrender their weapons to UN monitors within six months . |
| 24 | These attributes would be expected to lead to new and better solutions to problems in the UK and it seems that the apparent anomaly may be of cultural origin . |
| 25 | This was done to maximize the possibility of detecting contrasts over conditions , since an asymmetry would be expected to lead to high proportions of singular continuations which might make differences between conditions hard to detect . |
| 26 | Conversely , strong ‘ selection pressure ’ , we could be forgiven for thinking , might be expected to lead to rapid evolution . |
| 27 | The people who were devoting their lives to transforming society into an egalitarian paradise could not be expected to live like other people who had nothing better on their minds than scratching a living . |
| 28 | Instead , AHAs would be expected to put in appropriate bids for development . |
| 29 | Such processes will be temperature-and-time-dependent and so the uniform stress assumption would be expected to fail at low temperatures and the composite elastic moduli to approach the ( Voigt ) upper-bound values . |
| 30 | One suggestion is that the folding maintains the appropriate kinetic unit of the chain at any given temperature ; as this would be expected to lengthen with increasing temperature , it would account for the observed thickening of the lamellae . |