Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full-time fees for students are calculated according to total parental income . |
| 2 | Those who exercise power or authority over others typically claim legitimacy for doing so , ie that their position and actions are justified according to recognised principles . |
| 3 | Since inversion of the writing hand has been hypothesised to correlate with reduced lateralisation of brain functions it would be expected that there is a relation between inversion and familial sinistrality which also appears to relate , albeit inconsistently , to reduced perceptual asymmetries . |
| 4 | In goodwill tours of the Six Counties he has been heard to ask for alcohol-free lager and other exotic drinks . |
| 5 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 6 | Here , a series of patch reefs are developed surrounded by inter-reef sediments ( Fig. 8 ) . |
| 7 | In South-west England a number of strand lines are developed corresponding to different sea levels which fluctuated up to 130 m above present sea level ( Camm and Hosking , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The misuse of inside information has not been limited to misuse within financial conglomerates , but has been the centre of debate long before Big Bang . |
| 9 | In order to ensure compatibility with qualifications obtained by more traditional means , centres may only offer , through APL the same qualifications that they are validated to offer by other means . |
| 10 | In a country where most of us are taught to paddle on flat water , should we insist on putting novices into white water boats which are specifically designed to veer off course and then spend millions of man hours teaching them to go straight or should we put novices into boats designed to go in straight lines ? |
| 11 | The reactor has been redesigned to run on low enriched uranium and its capacity upgraded from 5 to 10 megawatts . |
| 12 | Although the meeting had been arranged to coincide with final approval of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [ see p. 37132 ] , those talks were still incomplete , so there was little formal discussion of events in Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 14 | Often , those who reach such a pitch have not been taught to deal with negative emotions . |
| 15 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 16 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 17 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 18 | A number of production yachts which are intended to develop into one-design classes are beginning to make an appearance . |
| 19 | The bedrooms , though on the small side , have recently been completed refurbished in sophisticated style . |
| 20 | Most broad spectrum supplements have been formulated based on average pasture and cereal values and their most likely deficiencies . |
| 21 | He had been caught lying about inside knowledge of a dirty-tricks campaign against his own party . |
| 22 | These forms are designed to deal with relevant issues at that stage of a case . |
| 23 | These reactions take place in a variety of digesters that are designed to deal with specific types of waste products . |
| 24 | As one might expect , the procedures followed by courts are designed to deal with bipolar disputes in an adversary way . |
| 25 | As such , it can not be restricted to the description of linguistic forms independent of the purposes or functions which those forms are designed to serve in human affairs . |
| 26 | FIRST Option Bonds are designed to appeal to basic rate taxpayers , and the minimum investment is a lump sum of £1,000 . |
| 27 | Teaching , then , can be conceived of as a research activity whereby experimental techniques of instruction are designed to correspond with hypothetical principles of pedagogy , with provision made for mutual adjustment so as to bring validity of principle into as close an alignment as possible with the utility of technique . |
| 28 | Yet foreign ships are still not permitted to ply American ports , and most foreign airlines are forbidden to compete with American airlines on domestic routes . |
| 29 | ‘ For external short courses ... staff usually asked to attend a course … for internal courses participants usually volunteer or are recommended to attend for personal development . |
| 30 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |