Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details are widely advertised and we hope that new members of the University will discover something of interest and visit the Chaplaincy Centre . |
| 2 | ‘ The BBC has always been classified as the station which tells the truth and they should make sure their research has been properly done before they publish anything else . ’ |
| 3 | Her ankle had been properly bandaged and she had been given pain-killers and ordered to keep off her foot as much as possible . |
| 4 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 5 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 6 | In retrospect Adenauer 's personal reputation would have been better served if he had retired gracefully in 1961 . |
| 7 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 8 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 9 | My Thanks are due , ’ Prince wrote to Jardine on 7 April 1840 , ‘ for your instructions respecting the specimens in spirits , which I have since carefully examined , separated and supplied with fresh spirit ; many of them I regret to add are much decomposed and I fear some may at last prove useless . ’ |
| 10 | Ripe Oregon strawberries are especially selected as we feel it best compliments the rich cream flavour of Häagen-Dazs . |
| 11 | Our children need to be aware that the more sexual partners a person has , the more likely they are to have sex with someone who is HIV+ , although the risks of infection are greatly reduced if they practise Safer Sex . |
| 12 | I was able to tell him that Nottingham children are better educated than he realised ! ’ he recalls happily . |
| 13 | The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems . |
| 14 | It is important to accept our children , single or married , without making them feel that they are less valued if they remain single , or if they marry someone who is not our choice . |
| 15 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 16 | Anna had been suddenly struck as she pushed open Pricewell 's double glass doors , by the ‘ Vacancy ’ notice pasted to the inside of it . |
| 17 | Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies . |
| 18 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 19 | Ransom strips are so called because they change hands at high values , often up to one third of the total site value . |
| 20 | The clearing banks are so called because they operate a central clearing house in London . |
| 21 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 22 | The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds . |
| 23 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 24 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 25 | ‘ I hope you are so humiliated that you commit suicide . ’ |
| 26 | Some people have average abilities , but are so driven that they get their way . |
| 27 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
| 28 | Apart from Max Klinger 's superb etchings , the rest of his work has been much neglected since it fell out of fashion . |
| 29 | Since then , urea glues have been much improved and we have two new synthetics in particular , resorcinol formaldehyde and epoxy resins which , though they are rather expensive , have nearly all the technical virtues , bearing in mind however that epoxy resins frequently cause dermatitis . |
| 30 | As with the P.A.F. your support has been much appreciated and we hope that by keeping the fees the same you will do the same next year . |