Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff are alert and responding to the needs of their guests and are dressed appropriately to support the scene . |
| 2 | For example , most abduction experiences , which often take place in childhood , are repressed and have to be recovered using hypnosis . |
| 3 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 4 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 5 | But the young are resilient and Ensign in Italy : a Platoon Commander 's Story ( Leo Cooper , £19.95 ) is without a trace of self-pity or mock heroism . |
| 6 | The familiar carcrash sculptures have now been hand-painted and christened with punning titles : ‘ Headly Lamarr ’ ; ‘ A Spear de Corps ’ ; ‘ Advice Squad ’ . |
| 7 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 8 | I am shy when faced with people I do not know |
| 9 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 10 | His behaviour has n't been odd and speaking to his cell mate this morning it seems that he did n't speak to very many people either . |
| 11 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 12 | It should be stressed that the pay and allowances provided at Westminster are low when compared with those at other legislatures of similar status . |
| 13 | Though wages are low and living in London is difficult , he encounters Susan , a would-be singer ( Emer McCourt ) . |
| 14 | So as prostitutes are being deterred from Swindon by big fines and clear up campaigns , they 're taking the problem elsewhere ; to the cities like London , where the fines are low and demand for their work is high . |
| 15 | All are strong and made to high-quality standards , and provide a useful means of securing valuables such as workshops , tool sheds , tool boxes , etc . |
| 16 | Shakes are possible if confined to notes within the treble stave , but opportunities for their appropriate use are very rare and the inexperienced orchestrator is advised to keep his horn parts in general as simple as possible and to avoid wide and ‘ unvocal ’ leaps . |
| 17 | All the tanks in the house are unheated and rely on the room temperature — which was 74°F while we were there . |
| 18 | My experience suggests that many lesions that are macular and blanch on direct pressure respond more favourably to pulsed dye lasers than to alternatives such as copper vapour lasers , although in many cases responses are similar . |
| 19 | He had always been friendly but reserved with the townsfolk who , in the main , accepted his reclusive lifestyle without question . |
| 20 | Do it when other people are around so that someone will see that you are upset and listen to you . |
| 21 | Underneath are the primary feathers which are harsher and used for steering ; the secondary feathers are on the top and used for catching the wind and for balance . |
| 22 | Most of the vines are east-facing and located to the north of the village , with the best sites found at heights between 140 and 220 metres . |
| 23 | Mr Timms resigned but Mr Cooke denied he had been dishonest and stayed for two years until he was fired in August last year . |
| 24 | A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down . |
| 25 | In the year of German reunification and national congratulation , Michael Verhoeven insists that ghosts from the past are alive and kicking in the ‘ mature democracy ’ of the west . |
| 26 | Why these particular prints stand out in my opinion from so many produced for the tourists of the time , is because the artist has not just reproduced his drawings on to plates but he has been able to produce marks that are alive and work within the context of the print . |
| 27 | Some of the larger local authorities , as we have seen , are now appointing specialist advisers to the chief executive 's office , or even to the leader of the council , who can give advice divorced from the service-providing departments , but such posts are few and regarded with some suspicion by mainstream local government officers . |
| 28 | Nor have reforms been meagre or lacking in ingenuity . |
| 29 | In addition , by considering scalar wave perturbations in the impulsive wave case , they have also shown that the quasiregular singularities are unstable and convert to scalar curvature singularities . |
| 30 | These parts of the file are interrelated as shown in Fig. 7.1 . |