Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted that the industry — which the Government has pledged will be privatised in the early 1990s — would be broken up before being sold , with each package containing a mixture of profit and loss-making pits . |
| 2 | Each side panel can also be gathered in to be used as a doorway . |
| 3 | Nancy could always be relied on to be there in an emergency . |
| 4 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 5 | And that 's left us in some er , difficulties frankly , because one of the things that er , the C E C was recommending , that work of a strategic nature , which at the moment is undertaken by industrial conferences should be moved over to be dealt with by section conferences and that meant that a number of industrial conferences need not meet any longer , so we would avoid the duplication , the overlap and the waste . |
| 6 | To mess around with them is to court death , to allow them to be messed around with is a breach of our social duties towards each other … |
| 7 | Kirk then stated that he could not concur in the order and that Robertson expressed his disappointment , but stated that he could not " bother at this time who might or might not be handed over to be shot " and would send his telegram anyway . |
| 8 | And that is why we 're asking for officers to form a report on whether or not a small building maintenance team should be set up to be able to carry out that work . |
| 9 | Tait will be ruled out after being sent off for two bookable offences against Chester City in Saturday 's 1–1 draw at Feethams . |
| 10 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 11 | They claim thousands of dogs are currently having to be put down after being found wandering on the streets around the country . |
| 12 | Again then , knowing these people somewhat , I feel they would follow the apparent winner and South Korea would be gobbled up to be added to the rest of Red Asia . |
| 13 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |
| 14 | ‘ Mummy wants some shoes to be taken in to be stitched , and I can call in at Jessica Turvey 's . |
| 15 | Conventional male-oriented values are buried in the very foundations of sociology and have to be dug up to be seen ( but not believed ) . |
| 16 | ( Why be beaten up for nothing when you can be beaten up for being a smart-arse ? ) |
| 17 | It is suggested that defective receipts should not be accepted , but should be sent back to be corrected . |