Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The first three have already been handed over and are by artists not formerly represented in east German museums : Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Emil Schumacher and Fritz Winter .
2 According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live .
3 However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered .
4 However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered .
5 Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers .
6 On such an index , bacterial pneumonia , which is regarded as a ‘ real ’ illness , would indubitably outrank peptic ulcers , which are viewed suspiciously as being of psychosomatic ’ origin , and all illnesses known to man would outrank hypochondria …
7 An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such .
8 A substa substantial area of open land which is shown there as being within the inset of the village ?
9 There he became a renowned ornithologist where his work is recognised to-day as being of immense scientific value and he is accepted as being the father of American Ornithology .
10 On one side of the vehicle ( unspecified ) , suspended on a silver chain , was a ‘ Time Piece by which the watches of the Army are regulated ; in form it resembles a huge hunting watch and weighs four pounds ; it is jewelled throughout and is of the finest workmanship : it was made by Mugmer , horloger de l'Empereur et Roi . ’
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