Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 2 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 3 | Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then , evidence to the contrary has been slight . |
| 4 | How could his enthusiasm not have been aroused by so inspiring a personality ? |
| 5 | Middlesbrough midfield player Andy Peake has been recalled to today 's team with Mark Proctor expected to be on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 6 | Why is it then that these halls have been recalled with so much pleasure in so much twentieth-century writing ? |
| 7 | If American advisers are present ( even on Regimental and Division level ) it will do an even better job , for we have found Americans are leaned on heavily the rougher it gets . |
| 8 | A capital intensive fruit plantation in the valley floor of a central American Republic can ‘ cause ’ soil erosion on hillsides which are being cultivated by peasants who have been dispossessed of more suitable land for cultivation . |
| 9 | This group has been joined for yesterday 's deal by Montagu Private Equity and Samuel Montagu , as well as the Bank of Scotland on the debt side . |
| 10 | The occasional discussion period , in which pupils express their current level of thinking about God , is no substitute for study in depth of how religious people understand " God " , why they do , and whether they are justified in so doing . |
| 11 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 12 | Facts : Limits are placed on how much the bank can lend to its securities division . |
| 13 | Consultation items are placed on formally separate agendas , but in practice the distinction between consultation and negotiation is blurred and the relative strengths of the unions and management may determine the agenda on which a particular item is placed , especially at LDC level ( see Edwards and Lloyd 1981 : 21–5 ) . |
| 14 | He called a meeting of senior Cabinet members and energy ministers in an attempt to get agreement on the proposed white paper on energy , which has been delayed for more than two months . |
| 15 | Erm , I think the scheme has been delayed for quite a long , well , I mean obviously it 's important to get this scheme off the ground and when people , and I 've had lots of phone calls and discussions about this , and when people have spoken to me I said , it 's important to bear in mind two things . |
| 16 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 17 | We had hoped to announce the new scheme for consultation today , but that has been delayed until tomorrow or perhaps the end of the week . |
| 18 | But the start of the scheme has been delayed until later this year . |
| 19 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 20 | Mr Guerin was to have been sentenced yesterday but this has now been delayed by up to two months . |
| 21 | Marlowe had been tricked into vividly illuminating the miracle of the Incarnation . |
| 22 | Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances . |
| 23 | But the narrow out-crops on either side of Scotland have been honoured by comparatively few publications , though their story is much more exciting . |
| 24 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
| 25 | The same is true of Russian and French , where reflexive structures are relied on much more heavily to fulfil similar functions . |
| 26 | The bulk modulus K and shear modulus G are given as where subscripts 1 and 2 refer to spheres and matrix respectively , and c is the concentration of spheres . |
| 27 | At the end of the instruction manual , details are given of how to form the angles for five , six , eight and 12-sided frames , useful for mirror or picture framers who wish to experiment . |
| 28 | There is an unresolved tension between the fact that the perceptions of mystics are seen as fundamentally important to the human condition and the fact that they are given to so few . |
| 29 | Regulations are given for both normal ( seminal and menstrual ) and abnormal , possibly malignant , discharges . |
| 30 | When empirical mode explanations are given for naturally occurring causal sequences , causes do precede their effects , as was the case in the artificial experimental sequences . |