Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , then , are the interests typically threatened or destroyed by sexual assaults ? |
| 2 | Where are the products actually bought and sold ? |
| 3 | Nowadays I am a lot better placed and able to eat better because of the electric cooker . |
| 4 | It has been a point frequently made that the characters exposed to ridicule are never given attributes that can have been designed to evoke sympathy from the reader ; frequently quite the contrary . |
| 5 | Not a recognized route , it had been a track much used and he was willing to bet it was still there . |
| 6 | ‘ We are a lot further advanced than some in this respect . |
| 7 | But in no way were the results properly analysed and taken into account by those who seek , and are paid , to quantify such matters , before the event . |
| 8 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 9 | Only when it is exposed to chemicals that harden the tissue and inhibit decay , a method known as fixation , is the brain easily studied and only then will it reveal the complexities of its organization . |
| 10 | In a shared property , is the tenancy jointly held or are residents individual licensees ? |
| 11 | Not only is the creature convincingly modelled and animated , but ray tracing and lighting effects are used to give accurate refraction and reflection so that it really does look as if it is made of water . |
| 12 | As in much of Eliot 's drama , the issue of The Family Reunion lies in the revelation of a secret : his world is one in which disclosure is the thing most needed and also most feared . |
| 13 | Is the area well lit and well policed ? |
| 14 | This is a technique often used that leads to a quick and simple answer . |
| 15 | As far as the Church is concerned , Jennifer is a mistake best forgotten and not worth sacrificing a priest for . |
| 16 | It matters only that it is a tribute well deserved and well located . |
| 17 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) It is not argued that under English company law , or under the English law of mortgage , a foreign company , that is a company not formed and registered under the Companies Acts , lacks the requisite legal capacity to enter into a debenture secured by a floating charge on property both in England and abroad and conferring a power to appoint a receiver and manager over the whole , or substantially the whole , of its property . |
| 19 | Opposite was a photograph of a large country house and the lines : ‘ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife . ’ |
| 20 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that readers of Business have a wide range of abilities . |
| 21 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you are trying to clinch a tricky deal , alcohol will lubricate the wheels of diplomacy , quell tempers and deflect dissent . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife , ’ said James . |
| 23 | She might , however , reach the conclusion which Hapgood finds it hard to take on board — that espionage is a game best understood and appreciated by small boys . |
| 24 | This awesome aspect of An Teallach is a highlight never forgotten and well repays the five miles of rough walking before regaining the smooth road . |
| 25 | It is a charge never withdrawn and it is one which stuck . |
| 26 | Come 's stint on the toilet trail may be short-lived if the critical hoo-hah they 've elicited thus far translates into sales , but actually this is a band better suited than most to the world 's more fetid punk rock bunkers . |
| 27 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 28 | Here was a man easily ridiculed because of the words he has been forced to eat . |
| 29 | ‘ But , I 'll be honest with you , Sir Ralph was a man more feared and respected than loved . ’ |
| 30 | It was a remedy frequently recommended but less often applied . |