Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being found not guilty , a member of the jury called Mrs Aimsley offered Imamu the chance to live with her and her family in Brooklyn . |
| 2 | People felt cheated : they were encouraged to use locally available plants for many common complaints instead of being given more expensive , and therefore more desirable , pharmaceutical drugs . |
| 3 | The base , a tent camp which is operated by Adventure Network International , is in the process of being run down ready to close down for the Antarctic winter . |
| 4 | It is this knowledge , coupled with the fear of being considered too unfit to undergo such a traumatic operation , that makes open heart surgery such an ordeal , say members . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) If you are still unfit for work after this period of being paid either Statutory Sick Pay or Sickness Benefit you will transfer to Invalidity Benefit which will be paid for as long as you remain unfit for work . |
| 6 | Competent limestones in the allochthonous Devonian and Carboniferous section can be expected to have been fractured extensively where they were distorted in being forced up tectonic ramps . |
| 7 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 8 | In her last public statement , issued through a publicity agent , Mrs Helmsley described her final evening at home as ‘ lying in bed , cuddling and necking ’ with her husband , Mr Harry Helmsley , 83 , the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building and who was also charged with tax evasion before being deemed too frail to stand trial . |
| 9 | Russell ( 1986 ) prefers a model in which mineralising fluids were generated by Carboniferous seawater penetrating , and reacting with , the underlying Caledonian basement to increasing depths ( up to 10 km ) under a normal geothermal gradient during basin extension before being discharged up listric faults . |
| 10 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 11 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 12 | He does n't understand the Tory Party is about to be split wide open . ’ |
| 13 | We are also developing the handbook and expect to be breaking really new ground there . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that the Soviet political process produces tendencies for problems to be faced too late and for decision-makers then to push too fast and too far paying little heed to the impact of their decisions in other realms . |
| 15 | This hypothesis is consistent with two observations : firstly , the VSG promoter region is smaller than that of the procyclin/PARP promoter ( 22 , 36-38 ) ; secondly , the procyclin/PARP promoter appears to be positioned just downstream of a region transcribed by a different RNA polymerase , which terminates in close proximity to the procyclin/PARP promoter ( 33 , 39 , 40 ) . |
| 16 | Victor concentrated ; asked for the lamp to be turned down low . |
| 17 | She seemed to be getting quite violent as I could feel the van sway from her leaning against it . |
| 18 | Hilda seemed to be getting more animated as her own bafflement and distress increased . |
| 19 | There had always been a possibility that the telephone call had been a hoax and this seemed to be getting more likely all the time . |
| 20 | ‘ Music seems to be getting more expressive now and a bit more rocky . |
| 21 | It does n't seem to be getting very warm in here to me . |
| 22 | use the word black seems to be getting very black . |
| 23 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 24 | He seemed to be getting very religious all of a sudden . |
| 25 | ‘ She seems to be getting very good care where she is . |
| 26 | You seem to be getting very little thanks for all your hard work . |
| 27 | Milk vans had to be kept scrupulously clean , and were 50ft long , 8ft wide , and 7ft 10in high in the centre , carried on two standard four-wheeled bogies . |
| 28 | Of course , these generations had , at all costs , to be kept racially clean through the exclusion of non-Aryan blood . |
| 29 | I remember cold days , when both back and front doors had to be kept wide open to cause a through-draught , or clear a smoke-filled room . |
| 30 | Each side had to be kept reasonably satisfied . |