Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 2 | The Careers Service should be informed when the position has been filled whether by a Compact student or by another young person . |
| 3 | was promoted to the Chair in Accountancy and Finance and a number of vacancies in have been filled or are in the process of being filled . |
| 4 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 5 | I think there was a corner in the market that had n't been filled and we were there to do it . |
| 6 | Inside there is a piscina and in the bedrooms can be seen the outline of old windows that have been filled and plastered over . |
| 7 | The Preamble to the new recommendations acknowledged the changes : " Some important gaps in knowledge have been filled and new issues have emerged to challenge the international community . |
| 8 | More than 400 district council seats have been filled and although support for Alliance has improved , the anticipated fall in support for the DUP did not materialise . |
| 9 | It will not rest until the death has been avenged and the murderer punished , when it will fly to the Afterworld and inform the victim of his murderer 's fate . |
| 10 | Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed . |
| 11 | In muscles receiving delayed innervation , or muscles innervated at aberrant synaptic sites , both receptor clustering and receptor synthesis are delayed or redirected , consistent with the new pattern of innervation . |
| 12 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |
| 13 | 10.1 If either you or we are delayed or prevented from performing our obligations under this order , by circumstances beyond the reasonable control of either of us , ( including without limitation any form of government intervention , strikes and lock-outs relevant to this order , breakdown of plant or delays by sub-contractors concerned ) such performance shall be suspended , and if it can not be completed within a reasonable time after the due date as specified in this order , this order may be cancelled by either party . |
| 14 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 15 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 16 | Yesterday police were still combing the area for any similar devices which may have been hidden and for further clues . |
| 17 | The scratches had been hidden and it now shone like new . |
| 18 | But , being , a cunning old devil and a bit of a peeping tom , ( a purvoyeur ) , he knew where every valuable had been hidden and late one night he removed everything leaving the holes empty . |
| 19 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 20 | Mr Gould moved on to Brussels , where his anti-EEC inclinations — which have been hidden though never abandoned in recent years — became entrenched . |
| 21 | However the modish concept of " proto-industrialisation " ( above pp. 4 – 5 ) has led to a dominant image of women 's work as having been hidden because in rural cottage manufacturing it , as with the work of children , was subsumed in a family unit of production in which it was neither separately waged nor described . |
| 22 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 23 | Art for art 's sake has been dismissed as ‘ apolitical ’ , ‘ solipsistic ’ , ‘ bourgeois ’ . |
| 24 | Some of those who have recorded human rights violations have been dismissed as trouble-makers and on occasion have themselves been threatened , tortured and killed . |
| 25 | Babe-obsessed boys like Bill and Ted , Wayne and Garth and MTV 's Pauly Shore might once have been dismissed as metalhead wastoids , but now they 're big box office in a country seemingly intent on celebrating the stupidity of its youth . |
| 26 | Yet the Africanness of those wars has meanwhile been obscured by the outbreak in Europe of tribal fights that would once have been dismissed as typically African . |
| 27 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 28 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 29 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 30 | According to Cannistraro , the report had been dismissed as unreliable at the time but now , in the light of the ‘ proven ’ Libyan connection , was the missing link that placed the blame squarely on Gaddafi . |