Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | People are angry and are pitching hard because of the polarisation of the debate between the status quo or independence . |
2 | His orders are to kill as many people as he can , ’ I answered . |
3 | WEST : New voices and opinions will be vying to be heard in Westminster now the Conservatives ' grip on the region has been eased slightly , especially by the defeat of the Tory chairman , Mr Patten , in Bath , writes Paul Stokes . |
4 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
5 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
6 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
7 | Well , we recognized that two three years ago but it has n't been filled yet |
8 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
9 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
10 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |
11 | Then it had been filled again , but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land . |
12 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
13 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
14 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
15 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
16 | The mill pond still existed during the 1950s , but has now been filled in . |
17 | Pits have been filled in and tips levelled to form the ubiquitous British , urban , flat landscape of close-mown turf and lollipop trees . |
18 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
19 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
20 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
21 | On sites where there are no walls or other solid remains , those differences alone show the presence of archaeological features , such as pits and ditches that have silted up or have been filled in . |
22 | Today , no coal is exported from North Shields — the old Northumberland Dock has been filled in and is the site of a gas treatment station , an oil depot and Velva Liquids , which handles chemicals , etc . |
23 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
24 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
25 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
26 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
27 | In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid . |
28 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
29 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
30 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |