Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also continued to write , producing one work of fiction , Haroun and the Sea of Stories , and a collection of essays and other pieces , Imaginary Homelands , which Michael Foot argued are fit to stand alongside some of the very best work in defence of the artist 's right to free expression . |
| 2 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 3 | The companies I mentioned are important acquisitions . ’ |
| 4 | The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate . |
| 5 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 6 | I tried being quiet . ’ |
| 7 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 8 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 9 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 10 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 11 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 12 | Although DNs said they applied compression bandages to 73 per cent of affected limbs , 35 per cent of bandages used were inadequate to reverse the effects of chronic venous insufficiency . |
| 13 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 14 | The inhibiting antibodies used were monospecific , showed on cross reactivity , and blocked maximum standard urokinase type plasminogen activator and tissue type plasminogen activator activity completely . |
| 15 | The routes the Sweepers used were restricted access , so he had little fear of detection . |
| 16 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 17 | The competitor species used were 20- and 100-fold excesses of ds LTR , single stranded LTR , a short single ( ML1 ) or double ( ML1:ML2 ) stranded DNA of 49 bp , tRNA Pro , tRNA Lys and a 415 base HIV-1 RNA . |
| 18 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 19 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 20 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 21 | It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read . |
| 22 | Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters . |
| 23 | Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) . |
| 24 | Mike said that the chemicals involved were mobile as well as being potent and their ability is a potential explanation for lack of results in the Council 's study . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought the people involved were Calabrian shepherds . ’ |
| 26 | The Bible account makes it plain that the numbers involved were considerable . |
| 27 | ‘ The people involved were wonderful though . |
| 28 | But if the person involved were prepared to take a chance , he would be even less so at six o'clock . ’ |
| 29 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 30 | However , the cultural negotiations involved were problematic since they generated tensions between individualism and the investment of cultural authority in the state . |