Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked quite good with Crombies & trilbies & was sometimes lacquered . |
| 2 | She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners . |
| 3 | ‘ Managing by the numbers ’ collapses time-frames : individual businesses have to show quick returns on minimal outlays or be deliberately run down and liquidated as ‘ cash cows ’ ; in conglomerates , individual businesses are reduced to bargaining chips , quickly acquired and shed . |
| 4 | The project is concerned with identifying those household characteristics that are systematically related to their position in the income or living standard distribution . |
| 5 | They might , therefore , reasonably be expected to share characteristics that were also possessed by those common ancestors , even if they have unique characteristics as well . |
| 6 | Characteristics that were significantly related to increased mortality included diastolic blood pressure less than 60 mm Hg ( p=0.01 ) , haematocrit of less than 35% ( p=0.0001 ) , and a body-mass index of less than 22 kg/m ( p=0.001 ) . |
| 7 | With a stifled cry , she dropped the bolt , stepping back on legs that were suddenly made of water . |
| 8 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 9 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 10 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 11 | The empowered organisation , emphasises Kinsley Lord , is held together by forces different from those that bind the command organisation : ‘ If the conventional metaphor for the command organisation is a dinosaur , with the brain at the top issuing instructions to the ponderous body , then that for the empowered organisation might be a shoal of fish , moving rapidly and constantly adjusting its shape through signals that are instantly understood . ’ |
| 12 | This has been a minority view for 15 years or more , but one kept alive by the persistent efforts of Chip Arp , of the California Institute of Technology , who has over the years produced a series of photographs which show objects with very different redshifts that are physically connected by streamers of material . |
| 13 | ‘ They both have trades that are drastically needed and felt that it was something they could offer to help these children , ’ explained Mark 's girlfriend , Sarah Howe . |
| 14 | In silent single file they walked down the narrow corridor , Lisa staring at his back through eyes that were barely focused . |
| 15 | With eyes that were n't set in sockets but instead hung loose . |
| 16 | I had caught a glimpse of the Indian 's face in the rear mirror , a flat , rather moon-shaped face with high cheekbones , blackened teeth and dark eyes that were so slitted he had a Mongol look . |
| 17 | The black man momentarily took off his sunglasses as though to examine Ellen more closely and I saw he had very hard and very cynical eyes that were suddenly turned full on me . |
| 18 | 5 Exclusive fashion cosmetics and skincare formulations that are specially selected to suit you — and delivered directly to your door |
| 19 | Well that is the , that is the erm the government guidelines that are actually set down and that 's what they pay out is fifty six pounds ten pence per week |
| 20 | They manufacture this liquid in nectaries that are usually located in the farthest depths of a flower . |
| 21 | A walk around Aarau brings one face to face with two architectural styles that are clearly defined , quite different , but which make a genial harmony . |
| 22 | This was preferred to the normal process of simply making the hair greyer , and the stars did not like the set of wigs that was originally intended to be used . |
| 23 | Capital investment is rarely a solution to complex problems , and the recurrent cost implications may be detrimental to health ministries that are already over-committed . |
| 24 | Today a great deal of local politics is arranged along party lines , and most councillors represent the political parties that are also found at Westminster . |
| 25 | Those parties that were not forced into clandestinity demonstrated scant ability to formulate new strategies or even to adapt existing ones to contemporary situations . |
| 26 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 27 | It is important to recognise that the research itself , and its setting , inflicts its own contingencies on the choice of indicators : research using interviews will have to use indicators that are largely constructed out of respondents ' answers to questionnaire items whereas observational studies , and Lazarsfeld did not preclude them from variable analysis in principle , would have to use others . |
| 28 | The indicators that are traditionally used are the money spent on health care or the number of health workers per head of population . |
| 29 | This is invariably from small-scale farmhouse producers , using just the milk of their own herd , be it cattle , sheep or goats , fed on pastures that are organically fertilised with farmyard manure or a natural material such as seaweed . |
| 30 | But it is not only the general practice units that are often mismanaged . |