Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was — and still is — an affront to those who respected the great classic guitars , having to see them being used as dispensable stage props ! |
| 2 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'm constructed for physical labour . |
| 4 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
| 5 | Some say she is robed in blue , others in yellow and red . |
| 6 | But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later . |
| 7 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 8 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 9 | After scooping the majority of prizes at the event the 24-man-troupe found themselves being booked for other carnivals which led to a whole summer 's bookings in 1990 . |
| 10 | All other methods involve what is known as accelerated depreciation because the depreciation is greater in the early years than the later years . |
| 11 | Nor has anything been said about precise method . |
| 12 | ‘ By all means let there be challenges for the promotion of better health , but let them be based on sound reasoning . |
| 13 | Let them be listed in increasing order as unc [ so that unc etc . ] . |
| 14 | Rogers says she was pushed towards independent living too seen . |
| 15 | Similar observations could be made about front-line paraprofessionals in all the countries we studied who are drawn from local communities or who share common experiences and characteristics with client groups . |
| 16 | Previously unpolluted ecosystems begin to change almost as soon as extra nitrogen arrives because the plants and animals living there are adapted to low-nitrogen conditions . |
| 17 | It says they 're based on actual interviews with the women involved and that some additional parts have been written to show how they are in fact involved in a global chain . |
| 18 | The management says they were closed for commercial reasons . |
| 19 | Once each set of packages are prepared they are ranked in descending order of importance ; that is , the more important the package the higher the ranking . |
| 20 | The applications of copper-based metals were extensive , and as new alloys became available through developments in smelting they were exploited in new ways . |
| 21 | In both , defendants say they were tortured in detention ; one says he was kidnapped from neighbouring Uganda . |
| 22 | He says he was captured by armed police and was probably planning an armed robbery . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union says it was used for nuclear fuel . |
| 24 | Once this is done it 's rinsed in distilled water , and is ready for testing . |
| 25 | But a spokesman for NatWest said : ‘ When the reference was prepared it was provided in good faith and was reasonable at the time it was prepared . |
| 26 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 27 | It will use secondary analysis of an existing database , collected in a longitudinal study of social support and childbearing , to explore what is meant by social support , both in terms of family and social networks and from the point of view of the health and welfare services . |
| 28 | For any attempt to define what is meant by spiritual is easily killed in infancy by pointing out how ridiculous such an attempt is : the spiritual automatically transcends all possible categories and definitions . |
| 29 | In Brutus v. Cozens , the House declined to attempt to define what is meant by insulting , and later courts have not sought to do what the House would not , although they have sought to give guidance as to what the term might mean . |
| 30 | Then the flames licked at her fingers and she dropped what was left of True Love at her high-heeled feet . |