Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 2 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 3 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 4 | He woke on top of her , she might 've been a beach , he might 've been abandoned there by waves . |
| 5 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 6 | You know without the women 's support group especially and without other support you know , we would 've been starved back to work . |
| 7 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 8 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 9 | I shall also ensure that the merits and advantages of Almondbank , to which my hon. Friend rightly referred are taken fully into account . |
| 10 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 11 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 12 | Fourthly , in setting out the contract which may be oral or written , the activities to be undertaken are sorted out into individual tasks , and allocated between the worker and the client . |
| 13 | The differences which remain are enforced mainly by differences in average income and in style of government . |
| 14 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 15 | Learning , singing , and praying are rolled up into one : catechesis , as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters . |
| 16 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 17 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 18 | This one is a truly beautiful model of an American ‘ ten-wheeler ’ called ‘ Sequoia ’ which has been completed recently in his railway 's own workshops . |
| 19 | The section has been amended recently by new section 62A , which , by virtue of secondary legislation , makes clear that s.62 is intended , inter alia , to cover insider dealing . |
| 20 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 21 | The 700 sq ft shop , called Ottakars Children 's , has a range of around 4,000 titles , and has been fitted out with children 's play and adult seating areas . |
| 22 | Britain 's loss of overseas markets has been explained largely in terms of the qualitative factors such as design and poor delivery , to which reference has been made [ Caves , 1968 ; Stout , 1976 ] . |
| 23 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 24 | Although the term ‘ untrainable ’ may still be found in official classifications of mental handicap to describe the profoundly handicapped , it has been recognised officially since 1971 that no child is ineducable . |
| 25 | The importance of the matrimonial home has been recognised increasingly by the legislature . |
| 26 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 27 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 28 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 29 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 30 | Our tool kit has been built up over many years and we did n't have to buy much : a long tape measure , a new pickaxe handle , some new screwdriver bits ( we lost one down the cavity ) . |