Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the sediment in fact seems to be accumulating close inshore and very little gets to the outer shelf or the deeps . |
| 2 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 3 | Furthermore you will be helping conservation twofold as WWF and the David Shepherd Conservation Foundation both receive a proportion of the selling price . |
| 4 | ‘ This massive geophysical effort will continue for the rest of this year and well into 1993 , and for the next four months , we will be using two seismic crews to enable us to push ahead . |
| 5 | You may be using some particular part in the spreadsheet that you consider to be unusual , er you may want to include a page reference , so that er , you can understand it again |
| 6 | Soon I 'll be handling that magnificent specimen , I thought . |
| 7 | Instead of carrying the miserable burden of mass unemployment , we could be investing in new technology and in new skills , training and retraining our talented people to face a fiercely competitive world : instead of our education system declining and our health service fracturing , we could be building high-quality public services which extend security and opportunity to every family in the land ; instead of a society diminished by the violence and dishonesty of crime , we could be building strong communities which provided opportunity as well as protection for every citizen . |
| 8 | In that it joins other states like Iran , Israel , Pakistan and India who are all thought to be pursuing military nuclear programmes . |
| 9 | In future we will not be accepting any similar adverts and we 'll be donating the revenue from this advert to the RSPCA . |
| 10 | We recognise why that is , and it is a perfectly reasonable requirement that they should be given that free school meal , but it is producing a rather sudden burden for education authorities which they are finding difficult to accommodate at present . |
| 11 | I also conclude that , to enable him to make such representations , he should be given such relevant information as he does not already have . |
| 12 | However , the limitation of the sound guide is equally evident : only a small number of works can be given such exceptional treatment . |
| 13 | But I 'd much rather be given useful relevant information like where I am . ’ |
| 14 | The request for a deployment under this article ended weeks of political wrangling , during which the army had urged that it should be given wide martial law powers to act in Sind under Article 245 of the Constitution . |
| 15 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes which other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 16 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 17 | Whatever their condition , they should always be given appropriate loving care . |
| 18 | Nor does the Chancellor demand free elections for East Germans immediately , his aides say , but would first like to see them be given greater personal freedom and basic human rights . |
| 19 | They should not be given legal binding force . |
| 20 | He hoped that the government would set an example to the nation by inaugurating a period of change , but he did not believe that the estates of the realm should be given extensive political rights or that the power of the tsar should be dramatically reduced . |
| 21 | But why only males should be given this extra piece of breathing apparatus has not satisfactorily been explained . |
| 22 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |
| 23 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 24 | It also saw frequent proposals that diplomats should be given some systematic training to fit them for the posts they were to occupy . |
| 25 | A I think that the design considerations of your notice board should be given some careful thought . |
| 26 | Given that safety for passengers must be paramount , you might like to consider if such a code of practice should be given some statutory status , or how else the good practice it describes might be disseminated and enforced . |
| 27 | The Helsinki process should be institutionalised straight away with the formation of an Environmental Security Council which should be given some legislative powers as soon as possible . |
| 28 | ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top . |
| 29 | And third , ministers will not be given any detailed information about MI5 's work . |
| 30 | One merely has to read its wording to see that it can not be given any sensible meaning in a context such as the present , where the mind and will of the defendants are also treated in law as the mind and will of ‘ the other . ’ |