Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he thought the battery you know was running down but in fact it was n't |
| 2 | First , the safety and soundness of a financial institution ( and the financial system generally ) may be put in jeopardy ; and secondly , those who are consumers of financial services risk being treated unfairly because of the increased likelihood that conflict of interest situations will be abused . |
| 3 | Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 5 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 6 | They 've been running up and down the place doing all the good play . |
| 7 | The contradictions in Belsey 's text have been examined sharply and at some length by Patrick Parrinder . |
| 8 | Confined to West Africa , these species of shrews have been persecuted locally because of their strange internal armour . |
| 9 | Others have been singled out because of their involvement in a trade union or political party . |
| 10 | British filmmakers have been struggling ever since with the conflicts created by this critical manoeuvre . |
| 11 | Unfortunately they make admirable firewood , and vast numbers have been destroyed deliberately or by accident . |
| 12 | Many of the world 's leading doctors have been trained here and at the neighbouring Medical School of Edinburgh University . |
| 13 | He says we 've had alot of people round looking at the garden and alot of the Chelsea pensioners have been looking in and at the sign above the door and saying ’ Ah yes , I think I know that person ! . ’ |
| 14 | Mains supplies of potable water have been regarded generally as of reasonably high standard , apart from the suspended matter in some and the hardness of others . |
| 15 | That this is what happens can be demonstrated by playing recordings of the clicks to one batch of eggs and so inducing them to hatch well before others of the clutch that have been kept individually and in silence . |
| 16 | I bought it regardless , but have been watching ever since for scorch marks on the rucksack pocket where it lives . |
| 17 | Birds have been recorded singly except for two together flying west off Selsey Bill on 28 August 1965 , and three likewise off Langney Point on 12 September 1970 . |
| 18 | Anyone worrying — as dealers and Christie 's once did — that these thousands of 300-year-old pots will flood the market need only look at Harrods , where Nanking Cargo plates have been selling regularly and at increasing prices since the auction ( £195 for a good teabowl , £7,000 for an ‘ encrusted ’ tureen ) and where , after the Vung Tau auction , the new pieces will also be for sale from , they expect , £50 to £10,000 . |
| 19 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 20 | When an employee comes into the workplace , s/he no longer opens the paper mail first but will turn on the computer and read what messages have been left overnight or since the last viewing . |
| 21 | It is hoped that the plan will help to release funds that have been held up because of shortages of data or skilled staff in the East . |
| 22 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 23 | Most significantly , the persuasive interview techniques which used to be a feature of most interrogations have been abandoned partly because of the new requirement that there should be a verbatim contemporaneous record of every interview . |
| 24 | Thesauri have been used extensively since around the 1950s to index special collections of documents , abstracts , bulletins , current awareness tools , Selective Dissemination of Information Systems , online databases , encyclopaedias and a variety of other bibliographical tools . |
| 25 | Quantities of empty drinks cans have been found in and near the building . |
| 26 | After this time L4 and L5 have been found in and around the pancreas before their appearance in the large intestinal lumen . |
| 27 | The District Council considers that the sites may have a role to play in the long-term strategic land reserve , although at this stage as no calculations have been carried out as to the requirements it is difficult to assess what role they might play . |
| 28 | Many theories have been put forward as to the origin of AIDS but there is no scientific agreement . |
| 29 | The two cases analysed so far have been chosen so as to clearly reveal , in a very simple context , the method of determining transient response through Laplace transformation . |