Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 32 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 33 | ‘ while the relation of a husband to his wife is not one of influence , and no presumption exists of undue influence , it has never been divested completely of what may be called equitable presumptions of an invalidating tendency . |
| 34 | Some of the fruits of his literary labours are gathered here in an anthology sourced from newspaper writings and his previous books , with scrutinies of most of the top players of the past few years , Test and county . |
| 35 | Be careful , he warned , when buying bulbs such as cyclamen — some rarer varieties are gathered indiscriminately from certain parts of the Mediterranean and Turkey area and are in danger of disappearing . |
| 36 | The young wheat is streaked by silver lines of water running between the ridges , the sheep are gathered together on the slopes . |
| 37 | Subject subdivisions are gathered together into tables in some schedules , such as Language and Literature . |
| 38 | Instead of just inspecting records within the Input range you can define n output range so that all the records found as a result of the search are gathered together into a separate table . |
| 39 | What aims , objectives , hopes , wishes and intentions are gathered together under the broad heading of resource-based learning ? |
| 40 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 41 | He concludes with a formal oath : ‘ I , the Lord , have spoken ; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall come to a full end , and there they shall die . ’ |
| 42 | The statistics for these and other places are gathered together in V. A. Hatley and J. Rajczonek , Shoemakers in Northamptonshire , 1762–1911 , published as the Northampton Historical Series no.6 in 1971 . |
| 43 | They are gathered together from all over the retina into a single bundle , which is the optic nerve for that eye . |
| 44 | The data are gathered mainly by intensive interviewing and observation of systems and management staff in ten organisations from the private and public sectors . |
| 45 | it is clear justice has already been meted out to you . |
| 46 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 47 | All four bedrooms have en suite facilities and are furnished individually with great care , the prettiest is perhaps the Waterwitch room , with its low bay window looking over the garden . |
| 48 | The drawing room and dining room are furnished prettily in Laura Ashley décor and have very fine views . |
| 49 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 50 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 51 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 52 | David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning . |
| 53 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 54 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 55 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 56 | With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose . |
| 57 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 58 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 59 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 60 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |