Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 2 | The use of a bar-line stave ( not shown ) ensures that bar-lines are placed automatically every time the screen is refreshed , highlighting mistakes . |
| 3 | PLAYER : Between " just deserts " and " tragic irony " we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent . |
| 4 | There is extensive empirical evidence to show that if people who are leaving are treated well the quality of the service or product is maintained . |
| 5 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 6 | . You 'd you 'd probably come in the daytime , and you 'd find some of the tin 's been ripped off a bit , you might find a find a corner 's been ripped off . |
| 7 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 8 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 9 | Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups . |
| 10 | When a whole number of Landau levels are filled in a MOSFET , the Fermi energy , EF , lies in a mobility gap . |
| 11 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 12 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 13 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 14 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 15 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 16 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 17 | The two staircases that are situated just a couple of yards from each other are another curious remnant from the past . |
| 18 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 19 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 20 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 21 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 22 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 23 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 24 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 25 | My guess is that most have been discarded once an aircraft goes out of service , or even worse , confined to the skip when a travel agent or airline goes out of business . |
| 26 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 27 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 28 | If other variables , such as blood pressure response , exercise duration and induced ventricular ectopics or arrhythmias , are included then the value of the test as a prognostic indicator increases markedly . |
| 29 | ‘ Some people are booked quite a way in advance and others we do n't get a lot of notice of at all … |
| 30 | If two values of probability density are nominated then the area they define under the curve is the probability that any item drawn from the sample will lie between them . |