Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings examined are interestingly compared with those featuring in films , whereas the exploration of middles and ends includes a study on theme patterning in " popstyling " , characterisation as it emerges from fictional discourse , and a functional typology of dialogue ( which is interesting , but unfortunately inadequately substantiated in terms of textual evidence ) in " actionbooks " . |
| 2 | The goods received are also posted to the individual stock record cards from the invoice which will show the prices ( Fig. 6.17 ) . |
| 3 | But various other bits of machinery which are now lying idle around the quarry probably would 've been better left in Italy or Spain or wherever they were acquired from . |
| 4 | Summer thunderstorms are common , but the torrential downpours which they often bring are soon evaporated in the hot sun and are of limited value to agriculture . |
| 5 | The radical consequences of relationism and what it overthrows are neatly described by Loader : |
| 6 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 7 | The fields which Miss Lockwood owned are also left to you , Sara , with the provision that Mr. Preston must have the use of them for as long as he requires for his horses . " |
| 8 | ( a ) Contents of the Register Established under the Land Charges Act 1925 , this is of importance to every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of any property in England and Wales , because the matters registered are not referred to in either the Registers of registered land nor in the Central Land Charges Register . |
| 9 | The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment . |
| 10 | When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ? |
| 11 | In mammals , about 50% of the carbohydrates consumed are normally oxidised to carbon dioxide and water to produce energy and about 30 to 40% are converted to fat . |
| 12 | In those languages that unequivocably exhibit it , tense is one of the main factors ensuring that nearly all sentences when uttered are deictically anchored to a context of utterance . |
| 13 | Transforms are thus rolled through the hierarchical spaces by construction of the coordinates in the next associated space , until the reference layer is reached ( see Figure 2.31 ) . |
| 14 | The fry of livebearers and the eggs of any fish which happen to spawn are quickly devoured by the other fish — often including the parents , which see them as a meal . |
| 15 | I accept this evidence , and it follows that there is no arguable case that the moneys sought to be traced are now situated in England . |
| 16 | Orders to kill are still issued by the drug barons . |
| 17 | If the last two clauses heard are syntactically related to one another then sufficient syntactic information about the penultimate clause needs to be retained in order for the larger linguistic unit they form to be understood . |
| 18 | Even so , prisoners do not normally riot unless this sense of injustice has been somehow inflamed beyond its normal simmering state . |
| 19 | This has been generously supported by the Department of Health , the Nuffield Foundation , Bearing Trust , Allied Dunbar and will be launching that early next year . |
| 20 | The zippy Toyota MR2 , which has been generously supplied by Northway Toyota of Bootle and Maghull , is a neat machine with a built-in ability to turn heads . |
| 21 | It has been persistently asserted by policy-makers , some administrative law scholars , and those concerned with the administration of tribunals , that the informality of tribunals , their simplicity , and their accessibility , have rendered representation both unnecessary and undesirable . |
| 22 | It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics . |
| 23 | Lyric poetry has been misleadingly categorized as " subjective " art . |
| 24 | Of course , the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof , but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and can not be lightly dismissed . |
| 25 | The law on the control over sexually violent images has been slightly strengthened with the introduction of legislation against the ‘ video nasties ’ and the banning of pornographic images from direct public view , although not preventing their availability . |
| 26 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 27 | This version has been slightly customized for a British audience . |
| 28 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 29 | In sociological and anthropological literature the phatic use of language has been frequently commented on — particularly the conventional use of language to open talk-exchanges and to close them . |
| 30 | Marxism has been frequently derided for its explanations of political behaviour in Western democracies . |