Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I was put with foster parents , staying with them in the country for about nine months . |
| 2 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 3 | Their first set move broke down through an elementary forward pass , and throughout the first half they were plagued by basic errors . |
| 4 | In this he is advised by English Heritage and the Ancient Monuments Boards for Scotland and Wales . |
| 5 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 6 | In 1985 he was charged with other offences which were to be tried in the High Court of Hong Kong , but the prosecution encountered difficulties in bringing the case to trial . |
| 7 | First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility . |
| 8 | I make this declaration because one of my aims in this discussion is to show that we do not need to share other people 's beliefs in order to understand them sympathetically : we can see the sense in beliefs even when we are convinced they are based upon false premisses . |
| 9 | To this day many are convinced they were kept in separate dining rooms . |
| 10 | On 26 March 1991 he was returned to Safi Prison and in protest he began a hunger-strike which resulted in his falling into a coma , due to his illness , a few days later . |
| 11 | It was n't possible she was attached to young Geoffrey — whenever she mentioned him her voice had an edge of contempt . |
| 12 | Yes , you can rely on the various methods by which you draw a shape on a chart and it tells you automatically how many stitches and rows you need but for those machines that are not so sophisticated you are left with simple maths . |
| 13 | In 1862 she was appointed by royal warrant ‘ printer and publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty ’ , a personal distinction , and in November the press moved to 83a Farringdon Street , where steam was used . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm just so glad they 're settled with good , respectable boys for husbands . ’ |
| 15 | Piermarini 's new theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 with the work L'Europe Riconsciuta by Antonio Salieri In its earliest days — when the theatre was used for balls and as a gaming house of , at one time , ill repute — the theatre was decorated in Baroque style , but in 1807 it was redecorated in Neo-Classical style only to be redecorated yet again in 1830 by |
| 16 | In 1946 he was promoted to senior principal scientific officer and became assistant director of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment , subsequently becoming director . |
| 17 | Make sure yours are fitted with adequate locks |
| 18 | I think we 've got to put them back under the home office and make sure they 're treated as young criminals and not as social cases . |
| 19 | Use the best quality paper , and if you are getting several photocopies made make sure they are done on good quality paper and not ordinary photocopy paper . |
| 20 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 21 | If dysplasia was present it was classified as low grade , high grade , or carcinoma . |
| 22 | Involvement of the central nervous system is common in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) ; in many it is caused by opportunistic pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii . |
| 23 | No further such attacks on Armenian territory were reported for the rest of May , but on May 11 it was reported by Armenian officials that Getashen and Martunashen had been razed , and their populations of several thousand people deported . |
| 24 | By 1930 she was represented in various public collections ( Tate Gallery , London ; City of Manchester Art Galleries ; Whitworth Art Gallery , University of Manchester ; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art , Dublin ; Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo ; Art Institute of Chicago ) . |
| 25 | When Vice-President Nixon toured the area in 1958 he was pelted with rotten eggs and jostled by angry demonstrators . |
| 26 | In chapter 4 , the lexical access component is tested against input from the RM1 front-end , and in chapters 5 and 6 it is tested against simulated data . |
| 27 | In June 1883 he was appointed as parliamentary secretary to the Local Government Board ; his investigations of the London slums were partly responsible for the appointment of a royal commission on the housing of the poor in 1884 . |
| 28 | And then they were raked into Well we just er If they were dry they were raked into big swathes , to be near where you could build the tramp coles But if they were n't you would put them into little coles and the and then they were the little coles was put up t t together to make a bigger one . |
| 29 | When things go wrong we tend to assume that the police have offended , rather than that they were defeated by real cognitive problems . |
| 30 | First they were pursued by Iraqi government agents , then war broke out and they are carpet bombed in Iraq , and once more they are being pursued , but this time by the British government . |