Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 2 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 3 | Instead , wear several light layers of clothing that can easily be added or removed as you walk . |
| 4 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 5 | In addition they must always be muzzled and leashed when taken out in public and owners , who must have third party insurance , have to take adequate precautions to stop dogs escaping . |
| 6 | Children were still being imprisoned and deported when Mill wrote that disclaimer . |
| 7 | I used to think , That 's a woman 's lot — forever being prodded and poked and looked up by doctors who are total strangers . |
| 8 | When I first began the work that I am doing now , I decided to keep an open mind about the topic ; but , as time has progressed , I have been able to record details of fact , time and place given to me by my patients which have later been checked and confirmed and found to be wholly accurate . |
| 9 | The 1966 inquiry plodded its way through an incredible number of excuses as to why Blake had not also been transferred and concluded that if Blake had been moved , and the child murderer left at Wormwood Scrubs had then escaped ( rather than Blake ) , there would have been great public criticism . |
| 10 | Babies ' feeding equipment can also be cleaned and sterilised as usual . |
| 11 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 12 | The human enzyme has now been purified and characterised and its properties suggest that , at the high ethanol concentrations in the stomach after drinking , s-ADH is probably the ADH form with the largest contribution to gastric alcohol metabolism . |
| 13 | ( This is not of course to say that assignment amounts to assertion ; assignment is a necessary move in forming a syntactic-semantic construction , which may then be asserted or questioned or even indicated as the situation that the speaker desires to bring about . ) |
| 14 | The small disc is inserted into the floppy drive of the computer and the program can then be run or installed or data read from the disk . |
| 15 | These will then be transcribed and computered and built into a database which will contain several million words . |
| 16 | These graphics can then be enlarged or reduced and positioned anywhere on the page . |
| 17 | Within a few days most of the patrols had either been killed or captured and the enemy occupied their rendezvous at Bir Fascia . |
| 18 | Any material gathered on board the craft can either be recorded and saved as evidence or can be transmitted directly to the police control room . |
| 19 | But doctrine exists in the belief system arid can therefore be replaced or atrophied but not attacked . |
| 20 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |