Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases that depend on the result of this one will be left open , and methods of valuing benefits previously agreed or accepted in practice will not be disturbed for 1991/92 or earlier years ( p 103 ) . |
| 2 | Since reform was now unavoidable it must be made certain that Ireland would be included under the redistribution clauses and that the House of Lords should be restored to entrench resistance to Labour . |
| 3 | Each one may be made responsible for a specific task . |
| 4 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 5 | When you see what 's on offer , we 're sure you 'll be left speechless . |
| 6 | ( For example Manu the lawgiver recommended to Hindu society more than twelve centuries ago that ‘ the chief function of a woman is to give birth , nurse those who are born and attend daily duties ' or ‘ A girl must be married before she attains puberty and after she is married she must be kept busy looking after elders , cooking , cleaning , keeping accounts and saving money and of course doing Dharma ) . |
| 7 | These included soya products , dried haricot beans , baked beans , dried eggs which were very popular and tinned pressed meats of vague origins branded Spam , Prem and Tang somebody 's grinning there , do you remember those which could be eaten cold or cooked in various ways . |
| 8 | Thirdly , there are those which can be called abstract ballets , among which are Symphonic Variations and Monotones I and II . |
| 9 | It means that patients , in their ignorance , blame already overstressed medical staff for delays or treatment withheld while those who should be held accountable are cushioned from the consequence of their actions . |
| 10 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 11 | In this study an effort will be made to focus on North Shields in terms of the OPCS-defined urban area , but where this is not possible it will be made clear just what space is being referred to . |
| 12 | It might be thought , for example , that the arbitrator is typical of adjudicative authorities , and that what might be called legislative authorities differ from them in precisely these respects . |
| 13 | Furthermore , if necessary they can be left unattended . |