Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limitation is easy to spot : the unspoken assumption that the industrial and economic wealth of his country belongs by right to the whites ; and that any discomforts the blacks suffer are an unfortunate legacy of history . |
| 2 | ‘ The only people who suffer are the fans . |
| 3 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 4 | Summer thunderstorms are common , but the torrential downpours which they often bring are soon evaporated in the hot sun and are of limited value to agriculture . |
| 5 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 6 | What is more , many naturally-occurring chemicals are highly toxic : the natural foods we eat are stiff with potentially damaging chemicals — plants , in particular , spike their products with an armoury of defensive substances ( see p 15 ) , fungi on the plants contribute their own toxins , and the bacteria in our gut add to the number we absorb . |
| 7 | EAT are set to play a sequence of warm-up dates before Reading Festival . |
| 8 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 9 | As we have seen , the " ants " that anteaters eat are often not true ants at all , but termites . |
| 10 | Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other . |
| 11 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 12 | What he has done , he explains , is to combine the belief of his philosophical predecessors that ‘ the things immediately perceived , are ideas which exist only in the mind ’ with the common-sense belief that ‘ those things … [ we ] immediately perceive are the real things ’ ; and these two , put together ‘ do in effect constitute the substance of what I advance ’ . |
| 13 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 14 | So I suspect that you wo n't be talking to these kinds of men , or do you get a chance to talk to the men that you perceive are part of the problem . |
| 15 | Some common names are OK ( Oscar , Jack Dempsey , Convict are current throughout the UK ) but ‘ Yellow Dwarf Cichlid ’ could be any one of several dwarfs from Africa or South America , and ‘ Butterfly Cichlid ’ can mean at least two different fish . |
| 16 | Willy 's synthetic abstractions which generalize and falsify are countered by her analytic and critical re-writing of Herodotus . |
| 17 | Two of areas of difference they highlight are particularly relevant to the public sector — scope and responsibility . |
| 18 | For two lexical items A and B we can ask whether the respective classes of entities they denote are identical , disjunct , overlapping , or whether one includes the other . |
| 19 | Unlike the /Ε/; lowering rule , the velar-raising rule is not confined to short-vowel environments ( that is , before the voiceless velar stop ) , but also applies when a voiced velar follows ( that is , in long-vowel environments ) : thus bag , bang are realized with [ Ε : ] . |
| 20 | There were some quite sharp interchanges which unfortunately are still there in the literature and I fear are not doing an awful lot of good . |
| 21 | ‘ The teams I really fear are Arsenal and Leeds , ’ said the United manager . |
| 22 | In spite of mean and unworthy insinuations to the contrary-insinuations which I fear are always inevitable in the case of men who hold prominent but not primary positions in any administration-I have felt a strong personal attachment to you as my chief . |
| 23 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 24 | But Val 's message to the High Street stores that sell computers is still important — you have a duty to your customers to provide some guidance even if this means pointing out that some of the computers you sell are very limited ! |
| 25 | Our turn over is Rs 200 to Rs 300 per day , but then the items we sell are also expensive . |
| 26 | Hi-fi salespeople who confuse and infuriate customers with tedious descriptions of the electronic wizardry behind the products they sell are no less guilty of this sin . |
| 27 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 28 | Estimated models of the economy which do not allow for changes in expectations when policy regimes change are therefore likely to be seriously flawed , in that they will begin to predict the behaviour of the economy badly whenever a policy regime change occurs . |
| 29 | Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit . |
| 30 | The group of works in which large , often black , forms predominate are perhaps less successful . |