Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By its middle years the introduction of a number of relatively minor improvements , such as cartridges and iron ramrods , had allowed this rate of fire to be trebled in the most efficient European armies . |
| 2 | Clearly it is of interest to know whether the memories of witnesses to crimes are likely to be altered by the often stressful nature of being a witness to or a victim of a crime . |
| 3 | The influence of Persian , Anatolian and , to a lesser extent , Turkoman designs is clearly discernible , yet there is also something unique and unmistakable about Caucasian rugs , which can partly be explained by the rather unusual development of weaving in the region . |
| 4 | The heterogeneity , especially of the urokinase type of plasminogen activator concentration within the carcinomas , as shown in Figure 2a and 2b , could not be explained by the histologically scored parameters in this study . |
| 5 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 6 | Moreover , catching up can not explain the slowdown in US productivity which occurred outside the manufacturing sector and which can only partly be explained by the less intense expansion once the excess capacity of the early 1960s had been used up . |
| 7 | But their actions can only be explained by the infinitely complex interaction between general causes — economic , social , cultural and ideological — and their individual personalities , moulded by a particular experience of childhood and maturity . |
| 8 | This lack of continuity can partly be explained by the characteristically flexible patterns of association in the region , where the existence of several major landowners with overlapping interests militated against the formation of long-standing connections . |
| 9 | This lack of continuity can partly be explained by the characteristically flexible patterns of association in the region , where the existence of several major landowners with overlapping interests militated against the formation of long-standing connections . |
| 10 | But his hostility to this view can be traced to the more general antipathy to voluntarism which we have already examined in Althusser 's work , and which , according to Poulantzas , underlies the traditional Marxist account . |
| 11 | The results of the segmentation which follows from the expectation of interruptable time can be traced in the increasingly familiar forms of television fiction : an extended , rather than condensed form of the novelistic , in which attention is dispersed rather than concentrated ; highly populated narrative communities in which causality is less essential than character to the sense of continuity ; a narrative structure which need not end ( because not driven by causality ) , but which , if it does end , may end arbitrarily . |
| 12 | A similar account can be given of the most likely interpretation of car in 17 . |
| 13 | The Assembly 's meeting in New York at the moment to decide whether Cambodia 's seat will be given to the newly agreed Supreme National Council ; a move which would please many people and organizations such as Oxfam and Christian Aid , who were opposed to the Phol Pot regime . |
| 14 | The weight to be given to the normally competing values of equity and efficacy is a persistent problem both in setting or reviewing standards and in enforcing them . |
| 15 | The timetable has been organised in such a way that the divisions in the debate — knives as we call them — fall in places that allow the most time in debate to be given to the most contentious issues . |
| 16 | As a means of answering this question , the predicative function of the verb can be situated in the much more general framework of a mechanism which seems fundamental to all words that evoke a lexical content . |
| 17 | The storms seem to be formed in the strangely disturbed band of atmosphere that lies athwart the equator between the two trade wind regions , and is known as the intertropical convergence zone . |
| 18 | Ideally the frequency curve should be formed from the most detailed possible size analysis of the sediment . |
| 19 | One type suggests that it is simply the frequencies with which the separate features occur ; a ‘ prototype ’ is often said to be formed from the most commonly occurring features ( thus we form mental prototypes of dog , tree , car , and so on ) . |
| 20 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 21 | Although this was a relatively minor error , it indicated that the process for checking the claims ( ie a sub-system of the main procedure ) should be improved so that expenses would be received in the most timely manner . |
| 22 | Originally titled ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion Featuring A Choice Collection Of Tomes , Songs , Odes And Anthems From The Most Eminent Authors In The United States ’ , this is the record that was struggling to be heard inside the more studio-constricted ‘ Money Maker ’ . |
| 23 | A limited idea of the impact of Spanish culture of the indigenous population of Mexico can be heard in the only two surviving examples of Aztec polyphonic songs , hymns to the Virgin in Nahautl ( Disc 2 , tracks 1 & 2 ) . |
| 24 | Such fictional programmes will be joined in the very near future by internationally available news output . |
| 25 | The latter can usually be distinguished by the more generous hospitality — cheese and wine parties are very often the province of a nursing recruitment agency , or other private sector employer . |
| 26 | This cultural and institutional hegemony must always be distinguished from the more transient political and economic supremacy of European nations . |
| 27 | These ( ISAs ) were to be distinguished from the more instantly recognizable ‘ Repressive State Apparatus ’ ( RSA ) , consisting of ‘ the Government , the Administration , the Army , the Police , the Courts , the Prisons , etc . ’ . |
| 28 | Assignment of the right to payment of the sum of money in a bank account is to be distinguished from the more usual means by which a customer transfers money to someone else . |
| 29 | Black and white in appearance , the male golden-eye can be distinguished from the less strikingly marked male tufted duck by its lack of drooping crest and an ostentatious white patch behind the bill . |
| 30 | Our efforts were therefore directed towards putting wind power into perspective as one element of a comprehensive solution based on energy conservation and efficiency , and assessing how and where wind turbines could be erected with the least damage to cherished landscapes . |