Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 2 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 3 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 4 | Sometimes these forms are overtly referred to and talked about , for example in those communities which have clear notions of " correct " grammar and " standard " language . |
| 5 | and it will take some of those runners … a few days … a few weeks to recover but believe it or not they 're already talking about and planning next year 's race |
| 6 | In some localities market prices of residential property are directly linked to and affected by school catchment areas , where a school has a very good or very bad reputation . |
| 7 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 8 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 9 | In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed , with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness . |
| 10 | The manager himself seemed like a distant god to be both wondered at and feared . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've got to be carefully looked after and tested . |
| 12 | Again in Capital Marx set out to demonstrate that the workings of an entire economic system could be logically derived from and explained by a few materialist premises and the theory of class struggle . |
| 13 | This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer . |
| 14 | All of our departments are built round customer needs therefore they need to be regularly looked at and updated . |
| 15 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 16 | This is especially so where ‘ recitation ’ or transmission patterns of teaching are strongly approved of and supported by other members of the school community , not least the pupils themselves . |
| 17 | Those too poor to qualify for this pension were further discriminated against and left to poor relief . |
| 18 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 19 | Of the two , I found the former much the more useful ; its alphabetical list of foods is easily referred to and includes such ‘ new ’ foods as quorn , fromage frais , hummus and tofu . |
| 20 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 21 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 22 | In these social security provisions we see a set of values and institutional arrangements which condition the position and experience of those out of work , and which is both premised upon and reinforces a male-dominated notion of unemployment . |
| 23 | ‘ It is raining ’ is typically caused by and causes the belief that it is raining , and therefore has primarily descriptive meaning . |
| 24 | In spite of all this , the design process itself is often thought about and executed without any formal considerations about people . |
| 25 | But again there need be no problem in the marriage if the partner is equally committed to and supports the career climb . |
| 26 | Given that social order is continuously worked at and achieved by members , the question arises , ‘ How is this done ? ’ |
| 27 | Hewlett-Packard Moscow head of representation Nick Rossiter says the contract is fully paid for and took 18 months to negotiate . |
| 28 | The expression is sometimes represented by and referred to as the bank credit multiplier . |
| 29 | Conceptualizations of police work are therefore derived from and embedded in such phenomena as the day-to-day experience of police duties , which is itself contextually related to the sorts of crime that occur in the area in which the station is located , common-sense notions about policing contained in the occupational culture , and stereotypes of policing found in the wider culture . |
| 30 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |