Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too ! |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH I welcome any move towards a more open society I am a little disturbed by the relentless way in which childhood is being forced to be politically correct . |
| 3 | I am a little lost . |
| 4 | I am a little stuck . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm a little disturbed with the news media , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 7 | I confess that I 'm a little taken aback that a proof is something that you ‘ do ’ : it seems to me you build it , construct it , devise it , or cobble it together . |
| 8 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 9 | ’ His is a closely argued polemic and in it he cites The Machine Gunners as a classic instance of just such a book . |
| 10 | When I knew it , in 1941 , I was a newly commissioned , very nervous officer billeted up the road in a cotton-mill-owner 's abandoned mansion on a hillside in a suburb called Ramsbottom ( locally known as Tupsarse because it was at the ‘ end of everything ’ ) . |
| 11 | I confess I was a little shaken by my playmate 's tone . |
| 12 | I was a little unsettled by the fury of the blizzard , and hugged the top of the ridge all the way along , but avoided taking in the top due west of Cairn Gorm in case I was blown off my feet . |
| 13 | I really enjoyed the day , and I was a little put out by the articles I read in a couple of daily newspapers throughout the week , which criticised the tournament for staging what they called ‘ just a one-woman show ’ . |
| 14 | I recall I was a little taken aback when Miss Kenton opened the door and entered before I had bidden her to do so . |
| 15 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 16 | ‘ , ‘ Probably I was a little overwrought , but I 've weathered the crisis now … |
| 17 | I was a fully equipped birdwatcher , very inexperienced , perhaps , but with a one-track mind . |
| 18 | I was the worst affected . |
| 19 | After all , thought I , I was the best qualified of those present to speak on the subject of the future . |
| 20 | I was the lowest paid person on the refinery . |
| 21 | Also it must he said that Jurassic zones , which are the best known , are now being recognised on something approaching a world-wide scale . |
| 22 | The oldest fossil fish , which are the earliest known vertebrates , lack jaws — the mouth is a simple opening — and are covered on the outside with bony skeleton . |
| 23 | It came from human tissues , and so could reasonably be expected to be harmless to them , unlike the synthetic antibacterial substances such as arsenicals and flavines which were the best known at the time . |
| 24 | The company , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of AGB Research , had been chosen by Ben Lowe partly because it had done market research for other papers , including an abortive workers ' co-operative , the Scottish Daily News . |
| 25 | The PEP invests exclusively in the Capital House Income & Growth Trust , an authorised unit trust managed by Capital House Unit Trust Managers Limited [ Member of IMRO , Lautro and AUTIF ] , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital House Investment Management Limited ] |
| 26 | Consent is not required of the shareholders of any company which is a wholly owned subsidiary . |
| 27 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 28 | In Chapter II , the reference is only to the taking of ‘ evidence ’ , which is a well recognised function of consuls , as reflected , e.g. , in United Kingdom bilateral conventions and in the 1954 Convention , and not the performance of ‘ other judicial acts ’ ( regarded as exclusively judicial functions ) . |
| 29 | The possibility of endometritis should be considered in all young women with intermenstrual bleeding and , in particular , Chlamydia trachomatis infection , which is a well recognised cause of endometritis and is currently the commonest sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | ‘ He had had a thunderclap headache which is a well recognised benign symptom after sexual intercourse requiring analgesic and observation . |