Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 2 | Inside there is a piscina and in the bedrooms can be seen the outline of old windows that have been filled and plastered over . |
| 3 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 4 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 5 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 6 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |
| 7 | He 's been stopped and told not to write to us . |
| 8 | Any coach leaving the city at this time of night should have been stopped and searched anyway . |
| 9 | The attacks continued after ibuprofen and cimetidine had been stopped and recurred three days later , after chemotherapy in conjunction with intravenous dexamethasone , metoclopramide , and oral dexamethasone . |
| 10 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 11 | The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to this image , conveying an image of quiet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury . |
| 12 | The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to the same image , conveying an image of discreet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury . |
| 13 | All objects have been catalogued and vetted by Chinese experts and the results discussed with experts from Brussels , Paris and Hong Kong , the names of whom Mr van Halder would not disclose . |
| 14 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 15 | Professional advisers who are members of drug and therapeutic committees can ensure that primary care concerns are heard and addressed and that they are informed of any changes in hospital prescribing that affect them . |
| 16 | If these cries are heard and met , and therefore effective , the cry can , when the ability is acquired , be transferred into words : ‘ I want ’ ; ‘ I am hungry ’ ; ‘ I am hurt . ’ |
| 17 | Of course one wants to avoid situations where the conflict reaches excessive levels and actually gets in the way of running the business , but if the right decisions are to be taken it is essential that conflicting views are heard and thrashed out . |
| 18 | It is obvious that the genes themselves had not been blended and passed through the F1 generation to the F2 generation unaffected . |
| 19 | The Los Angeles communities are demanding that they are policed and patrolled by individuals who live in the community and the commanding officers by ten-year residents of the community in which they serve . |
| 20 | In the rat small intestine , many drugs are acetylated and excreted into the lumen . |
| 21 | They profess wholehearted support for clean coal technology , but , by forcing British Coal to search for private sector money , the potentially world-beating topping cycle developments at Grimethorpe have been delayed and delayed . |
| 22 | The planning process has been delayed and made more expensive by the need for constant negotiations between authorities responsible for two separate parts of a process which was intended in the Town and County Planning Acts of 1968 and 1971 to be fully integrated . |
| 23 | The calculation of additional financing costs may also be carried out on a comparative basis , comparing what the costs would have been had the project not been delayed and disrupted compared with actual costs . |
| 24 | The drafter should bear in mind that statutes and standard form documents , such as Incoterms , are altered and updated from time to time . |
| 25 | In despair John Pringle accepted a blackmail deal which , however irksome , seems to have been honoured and left him unmolested afterwards . |
| 26 | Since the National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948 , the education system has been one of the principal instruments through which the apartheid system has been sustained and perpetuated . |
| 27 | The messages from researchers and families alike have been heard and understood . |
| 28 | Carpal tunnel syndrome has recently been recognized and added to the list of prescribed industrial diseases but only when linked to vibrating hand tools . |
| 29 | Her eyebrows had been plucked and pencilled , and her mouth was unnaturally red . |
| 30 | The advent of Park User Groups will promote residents ' involvement in the way the parks are developed and managed . |