Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also closely linked , for provoking or allowing the return of Republican " chaos " and , therefore , the disintegration of the nation , was the ultimate , awful responsibility to be pondered by putative dissenters in the Francoist camp . |
| 2 | It is in the nature of the law , however , to be couched in abstract terms . |
| 3 | Dunleavy also notes the similarity of much local authority service provision in the 1950s and 1960s , and argues persuasively for an explanation of such uniform local political activity to be couched in non-local terms . |
| 4 | Although we acknowledge that the National Curriculum is presented in a conservative context , and probably has to be couched in conventional terms , we are conscious of its lack of a ‘ qualitative thrust ’ , its inability to cater for all we want to offer all our students . |
| 5 | Tomonori Tsurumaki , Japanese industrialist who bought Picasso 's ‘ Les Noces de Pierette ’ for £33.1 million ( $51.6 million ) at auction in Paris in 1989 , is rumoured to be burdened with heavy debts . |
| 6 | Now , like environmentalism , the animal protection movement appears to be split between pragmatic and idealistic factions . |
| 7 | It would seem that the primary activity of operations needs to be split into direct and indirect costs , with the latter analysed into major cost-driver categories as interpreted by Kaplan . |
| 8 | The Komsomol was to be split into republican bodies , and it was proposed to disband it , replacing it with youth wings of several parties and a non-political youth organization . |
| 9 | This subtype of glutamate receptor endows long-term potentiation with Hebbian characteristics , and allows electrical events at the postsynaptic membrane to be transduced into chemical signals which , in turn , are thought to activate both pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms to generate a persistent increase in synaptic strength . |
| 10 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 11 | Even when the discriminations of the zoologists began to be based on systematic classification rather than fantasy the criteria that were used to distinguish man from non-man remained very uncertain . |
| 12 | Thus those interests mobilized at the centre around the processes of production — the organized class interests of industrial and finance capital , the professions and organized labour — will differ from those organized locally , where mobilization usually cuts across class lines to be based on specific local consumption issues - council tenants , parents of under-fives and so on . |
| 13 | It has just been argued that detailed financial and managerial controls need to be based on specific product and/or SBU categories . |
| 14 | The proposed psychology was , however , to be based on neurological findings . |
| 15 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 16 | Indeed the type of ceremonial gift exchange to which we have referred seems to be based on egalitarian notions of reciprocity and sharing . |
| 17 | The most familiar is that of total ignorance , in the sense of making no response at all , and which could also be said to be based on total ignorance . |
| 18 | We thought that this was rather a superficial document , containing many forecasts which seemed to be based on inadequate data or questionable assumptions . |
| 19 | Thus , in general , it seems that backward projection on to historical states of language has tended to be based on present-day standard English and SBE , rather than other dialects , and as in the examples cited from Dobson ( below ) there has been a tendency to think of a phonemic set ( such as short /a/ ) as being invariant or nearly invariant within itself . |
| 20 | Although the assessment of damages often has to be based on scanty evidence , in the opinion of the Board the evidence adduced by the plaintiff as to damage in this case was inadequate to prove any damage beyond the purely nominal . |
| 21 | Within this context of the nation as a family , the actions of individuals were expected to be based on selfless service to their immediate group , and thereby to the state . |
| 22 | Typically , they tend to be based on American-made cars from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 23 | You would n't want the management of patients to be based on anecdotal evidence , would you , with all its distortions ? |
| 24 | His book is the first to be based on close technical scrutiny of the parchment , which revealed several erased preparatory drawings that point to some controversy among the medieval planners . |
| 25 | It could be argued , therefore , that good education ought always to be based on multi-cultural principles . |
| 26 | To twentieth century man the operation of these laws appears to be based on necessary events of great cruelty . |
| 27 | They were to be based on existing regional and other colleges already substantially engaged in higher education . |
| 28 | Initially , the view in the United States was that the refusal had to be based on good grounds — for example , religious beliefs strongly held — but the position now is moving towards the idea that ‘ individual freedom here is guaranteed only if people are given the right to make choices which would generally be regarded as foolish ones ’ . |
| 29 | Any public rebuke to the BBC , still more any action , will need to be based on watertight evidence . |
| 30 | Mistrust of a solicitor had to be based on tangible fact , and could not simply reflect a suspicion of the profession in general . |