Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 2 | The only muniments which had been catalogued were those dating from before about 1650 . |
| 3 | The words which are emphasized are vital for understanding question analysis and essay writing . |
| 4 | The way that university library budgets are calculated is changing , and there is no reliable overview of current practice . |
| 5 | However , giving rules for determining where the boundaries are placed is not easy , except in cases where a clear pause separates tone-units . |
| 6 | The CAA newspaper Airway reports that a passenger whose holiday flight from Manchester International to Spain had been delayed was discovered by airport police making a start on his tan on the airport tarmac . |
| 7 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 8 | When the condition you refer to as ‘ the burning ’ surges through your flesh , what you are given is the capacity to step beyond the strictures of the logical universe humans have inflicted upon themselves . |
| 9 | You 're then taken down into the operating theatre and the first injection you are given is usually something on the lines of erm er special K , ketomine or the most common one is |
| 10 | His popularity , and the seriousness with which his views are treated is a measure of his achievement . |
| 11 | Secondly , how well those made redundant are treated is an important factor in maintaining the morale of those who stay behind . |
| 12 | For policymakers the key point to recognise is that the way that people whom the organisation wishes to lose are treated is paramount , not just for their sakes , but also for those whom the organisation wishes to keep . |
| 13 | Where murmurs have been heard is in the area of bouncer-restriction . |
| 14 | What had been recognized was a kind of mismatch between the very different elements in the work of services for families and children , and the unhelpfulness of the legalistic and adversarial approach to most of this work . |
| 15 | The extent to which insect flight-muscles are developed is , as one would expect , correlated with the capacity for flight . |
| 16 | The glacial drifts on which many soils are developed are widespread in Lewis and occur sporadically in Harris , North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist . |
| 17 | d ) Changing conceptions of professionalism — finally , it should not pass without comment that the traditional concept of professionalism on which successive generations of solicitors have been reared was not uncommonly perceived to have been undermined by the dominant political and economic ideology of the last decade , with its emphasis on consumerism and market forces . |
| 18 | If the soil that has been excavated is in poor physical condition , discard it and backfill with sand or pea gravel . |
| 19 | The mean age of the patients was 48 years ( SD 13 years ) and the mean age at which the first duodenal ulcer had been diagnosed was 36 ( SD 13 ) years with a mean disease duration of 12 ( SD 10 ) years and 3 ( SD 2 ) ulcer relapses during the previous two years . |
| 20 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |
| 21 | For these ‘ immigrants ’ to start demanding having a say in the way their pupils are taught and what they are taught is viewed with great disdain … |
| 22 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 23 | The ways in which resources are partitioned are many , as , for example , on Barro Colorado Island where there are as many as eight variables of importance in just the food of coexisting ‘ surface-gleaning ’ bats . |
| 24 | The second important factor that has been highlighted is the need for progression . |
| 25 | The only prediction which it could be claimed has been validated is that the rate of profit would fall . |
| 26 | The mere fact that the idea of by-passing Parliament has been floated is an indication that the Government , in spite of putting on a brave face , is worried about losing to a combination of Opposition MPs and Tory Euro-rebels . |
| 27 | Ian Slater Calverton 's U D M branch delegate says the speed at which the meeting has been arranged is another attempt by British Coal to reduce the review period which could give the mine a nine month life line . |
| 28 | At school the importance of baptism was stressed and , once , all those who had not been baptised were asked to put up their hands . |
| 29 | Another area in which new technology has been developed is in the manufacture of dyestuffs used in the coatings of carbonless papers ( the Ciba-Geigy Pergascript range of colour formers ) . |
| 30 | The lexicon that has been developed is based on the vocabulary of a learners dictionary ( the OALDCE ) and supplemented by words from the LOB corpus . |