Example sentences of "[verb] and [adj] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 2 | Well certainly at times of stress erm all sorts of things are revealed and that 's one of the reasons why the current situation and the anxiety and level of stress around has resulted in people feeling a whole range of things that perhaps has actually surprised them erm and therefore it 's not surprising that children are equally filled with all sorts of the mixed emotions about what 's going on . |
| 3 | About half of the central committee offered to resign and 14 were relieved of their duties . |
| 4 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 5 | There are many such occasions when this phrase is used and these are familiar to everyone engaged in fieldwork . |
| 6 | The , another point is that that having raised the hopes of the housing associations the council is now actually trying to close a door that that we ourselves opened and this is tantamount to paying lip service to the health and the housing associations , yes , we 'll support you but not if it means that we have to sell you our houses . |
| 7 | Most of them are locally based and each is responsible for a group of schools or colleges ; they are under seven divisional inspectors . |
| 8 | There are occasions , when the sun is shining and all is well with the world , when I fancy he might recognise the rudiments of el thwing . |
| 9 | Many of her friends were in politics or belonged to political families , it was the era of the Liberal reforms and that was what fired her most : she went to dinner-parties where she sat next to men who were going to make a speech that night and there were weeks when she went to the House every day , it was what she had always wanted , it was history , it was important , immensely important and she was seeing it , seeing it happen and that was important to her . |
| 10 | Despite the enormous amount of information we have already accumulated there remains a great deal to be learned and this is one of the special pleasures of animal-watching . |
| 11 | ‘ He is extremely lucky to have survived and that 's due to the expert resuscitation he got . ’ |
| 12 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |