Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standards for this should be made available . |
| 2 | More than £20 million of this would be made available to carry the measures through in Scotland , according to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 3 | All of these could be called private fears — they arise out of your own life pattern and needs . |
| 4 | Many in Israel will fall and rise again because of him , and thus the secret thoughts of many will be laid bare ( Luke 2:35 ) . |
| 5 | All the important pieces were contested by trade and private buyers and most of the prices for these should be considered equivalent to retail prices . |
| 6 | There are no hard and fast rules determining the exact knot-count required to justify a rug being referred to as " fine " or " finely knotted " , but anything over c. 150 knots per in 2 can be considered medium grade ( reasonably finely knotted ) and anything over 250 or 300 would generally be acknowledged as top grade ( fine ) . |
| 7 | Much is contingent on the intelligence of our political systems and the chances of world history which may yet give us such a fright that something commensurable to the strides made by the creation of the UN in 1945 will be made possible . |
| 8 | To this can be added simple verbal interjections such as , ‘ Yes , I see ’ , ‘ I understand ’ . |
| 9 | To these may be added cheap food and tokens of improvement in our staple trade . |
| 10 | To these may be added other negative expressions such as insignificance , no sign , without a tremor . |
| 11 | To these can be added rough figures from Staincline wapentake in Yorkshire , where status had to be inferred as it was not recorded . |
| 12 | The sort of oddness exhibited by 28 may be termed expressive paradox , since the expressive meaning carried by but is inappropriately deployed . |