Example sentences of "[adj] and be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , few farmers like this and are holding back from selling . |
| 2 | Luminescence chambers are designed to cope with this and are tested up to specified voltages with metal targets as samples . |
| 3 | The estimates from each department became more detailed and were spelt out for each of the future years . |
| 4 | It was withdrawn on 18 December 1979 and was cut up at Doncaster on 2 February 1980 . |
| 5 | The 27th Annual General Meeting was held at Rutherford School , Penfold Street , NW1 on Friday , 16th March 1979 and was attended by over seventy members despite a severe snow storm . |
| 6 | He lost his seat in 1979 and was snapped up by Thames TV as a reporter and presenter before returning to Westminster as MP for Dagenham . |
| 7 | The crew of the Arun and Mersey class lifeboats are pictured ready to Poole Quay on 23 May 1991 and being seen off by the director , Brian Miles ( centre ) flanked by the two coxswains , Staff Coxswain Mike Houchen ( right ) and divisional inspector Les Vipond ( left ) . |
| 8 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 9 | It is used by Tom Puddings , coal-carrying compartment boats which weigh about 40ft each and are towed up to 20 in a string , and is one of the most heavily used canals in the country , also carrying liquid fuels and general merchandise . |
| 10 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 11 | It is then Pip falls ill and is nursed back to good health by the good-natured health . |
| 12 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 13 | Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy . |
| 14 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 15 | They 're exclusive to Club 18–30 and are set back from the main road in t more peaceful location , although the busy centre of Benitses with all its bars , discos and tavernas is within easy walking distance . |
| 16 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 17 | They were frequently left out in the cold and were fobbed off with symbolic concessions — such as a tatty play space instead of a decent nursery . |
| 18 | He came from a family of fourteen and was brought up in Ramsgate . |
| 19 | The parcels carrying service proved unsatisfactory and was given up on 31 December 1911 . |
| 20 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 21 | She had no formal education at all and was brought up by her paternal grandmother at Myrtle Grove , Youghal , which had been the home of Sir Walter Raleigh when he was the Governor of Ireland . |
| 22 | The Prince was hurt in the fight , but got better and was hurried back to Ruritania . |
| 23 | What have drowning , suffocating , bleeding and being run over by a steam roller got in common ? |
| 24 | In many cultures this leads to an asymmetry between ways of offering agreements and disagreements in talk : agreements are given more immediately , are more frequent , and are given openly , while disagreements are relatively infrequent and are hedged about with hesitations and excuses : see Pomerantz ( 1984 ) for an extended discussion . |
| 25 | At the other pole , there is the case of boxer Cecil Williams , the eldest of a family of six , who moved from St Kitts to Handsworth in 1960 when aged 5 and was brought up by his grandparents . |
| 26 | Gagong Apang was re-elected leader of the Congress ( I ) legislative party on March 5 and was sworn in for his fourth term as Chief Minister on March 7 . |
| 27 | The orchestra is certainly very accomplished and is shown off to good advantage in quite a big bold and well-detailed recording made at St John 's , Smith Square . |
| 28 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 29 | The HSE 's propensity ( or more realistically reluctance ) to prosecute , except as a last resort or where there is no alternative , is well-known and is touched on by Phil James in ‘ Reforming British Health and Safety Law : a framework for discussion ’ ( 1992 ) 21 Industrial Law Journal 83–105 , together with the related area of penalties . |
| 30 | An RAF base which had been due to close next year as part of the Government 's defence cuts is stay open and be taken over by the army . |