Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These will be fastened on and above them a platform .
2 It should be pointed out that despite increasing income concentration , there has been a general improvement in the quality of life .
3 It should , however , be pointed out that in practice the extent of limited liability is itself restricted .
4 Before we romanticize the size , wealth and power of these guilds , it should be pointed out that in the main they were fairly small .
5 It should be pointed out that in our control group , the incidence of rebleeding was 26% , which is less than the 30 to 50% seen by others .
6 Although the soundblaster and Adlib cards are mentioned in the same breath when referring to their support by Windows , I think that it should be pointed out that unlike the SoundBlaster card , the Adlib card ( not including the Adlib Gold ) can only play MID files via the Media Player , and is not capable of playing the digitised speech WAV files .
7 The candidate must not be hidden in or by the crowd ; at the same time he must not appear too remote .
8 It seems a reasonable rule of thumb that any genuine offers of help and support from people or organizations will be accompanied by a name and address , and a willingness to be checked out as to their motive in making contact .
9 The influence of the semiotic model within psychoanalysis is important but , as we shall see , it is often incorporated into sexual difference theory in a form which manages to exclude what the model is especially sensitive to , namely the way oppositions which constitute meaning are fundamentally binary , yet can not ultimately be contained in and by binary closure even as , in practice , the binary remains a fundamental principle of social and psychic ordering .
10 Each had to be in the mainstream , each had to be approached in and through a group of mainstream pupils .
11 The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it .
12 Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it .
13 ( c ) " Allows himself to be carried in or on it " .
14 He had to be carried in because of his legs .
15 For the fact is that the family is of such importance in the social structure and in personal life that much social work can not be carried out except in the broad family context .
16 It does not take much for that dress to be torn off and for what lies beneath to be revealed . ’
17 In the third place , you may recall that I escorted you to your room at half-past twelve ; but the college gates are locked at midnight , from which it follows that I would have had to rouse the duty porter in order both to be let out and to be let in again , something he will most certainly confirm I did not do .
18 The physical presence in the territory of the country of establishment must therefore be such as to enable such effective and genuine activities to be pursued on or from the territory of the country of establishment .
19 With only four home games left away points are soon going to have to be picked up but with performances like this , it looks unlikely .
20 In other words , some good measurements might be lost , but bad measurements are likely to be picked up because of the requirement that both the subject measurement and the reference measurement must be consistent .
21 ‘ I had just turned 60 and thought I might be written out and in need of a break .
22 The poll asked : ‘ In building roads it sometimes happens that roads have to be built through or across sites of natural beauty or historical interest .
23 For a week or so in February , a pair of longtailed tits was often to be seen in and beneath the shrubs near the nutbag .
24 A small ‘ open-outlet ’ electric storage heater can usefully be positioned over or under the kitchen sink as it will provide sufficient water for washing up .
25 There was a greater emphasis on the concept of spending needs which had to be costed out and in some cases justified and even evaluated .
26 Design work can not be turned on and off er it is er feel flowing continuous process and we must be particularly must be er as well as practical work in the future .
27 There is no doubt that the ventilator may be turned off when in fact , the patient is already dead .
28 Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age .
29 I did n't want to be pushed around or to be made dependent on others .
30 I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding , intended to be acted on and in fact acted on , is binding so far as its terms properly apply .
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