Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way he 's been treated since he came to Elland Road would be enough to do anyone 's confidence in . |
| 2 | Admitting to a lack of knowledge or competence is embarrassing and difficult , particularly if time and staff are limited and something needs to be done quickly . |
| 3 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |
| 4 | She 'd been taught that it paid to be passive . |
| 5 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 6 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 7 | She has been coughing but she worked with sufficient sparkle at Lambourn on Saturday to persuade trainer Barry Hills that she is ready to put her reputation on the line . |
| 8 | EC officials said that the areas , which are regarded as among those most in need of aid , had been omitted because they fell outside the administrative boundary of the Highland and Island region . |
| 9 | The story of victims number 37,38 and 39 was : ‘ In an apparent ambush , a gang member , fourteen , is killed and two others are wounded as they stand at a bus stop . ’ |
| 10 | Full structural survey fees are included if you buy through us and detailed advice about the property will be prepared for your solicitor to check . |
| 11 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 12 | Col. Iafai Camara was reported to be under house arrest in November [ see p. 37842 ] , but charges were reported to have been dropped and he remained in post . |
| 13 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's been reported that they centre on fraud and sexual harassment at Redoaks . |
| 14 | According to folklore if a traveller on horseback leaves a horse needing a new shoe together with a coin , the horse will have been shod when they return to the spot . |
| 15 | Happily all four engines had been spared the attention of the Ju88 but I was soon to learn from the flight engineer that the aileron control cable had been severed and he went into the wing root to find the two ends and make some sort of connection . |
| 16 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 17 | In addition to this short formal session issued related to culture and race are considered as they arise in other parts of the course . |
| 18 | It has also been claimed that they acted as Rome 's representatives in areas devoid of large towns or cities , or military garrisons , but this hardly equates with the known distribution of most of the British-based officials in or near auxiliary forts . |
| 19 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 20 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 21 | Although we are convinced we are under no ob ] igation to make additional payments which you ask , we are prepared as you demand in your telex of the 26th June , 1973 , and in order to maintain an amicable relationship and without prejudice to our rights , to make an increase of 10 per cent . |
| 22 | With a few minor amendments ( such as the deletion of paragraph numbers and cross-references to the relevant numbered paragraphs in earlier chapters ) they are presented as they appeared in the final report . |
| 23 | Chart 13 shows Mr Moore 's findings : in the successful sample the average ratio of long-term debt to assets was 62.4% after the LBO had been made but it fell to 37.6% by the third year as assets were sold and debt paid off . |
| 24 | The patient had been living before she came to London on the outskirts of a town in Bangladesh . |
| 25 | Of course play may well be slowed down if the new rules are imposed and there has to be a ballot before every strike , but while that is being negotiated Mr Christie may well resort to the block vote at the back to defend his resolutions . |
| 26 | Come , we are grown and we talk like children bickering over gleanings . ’ |
| 27 | We may use physical methods of measuring light intensity that are apparently independent of our subjective experience — for instance photosensitive cells — but these are accepted because they correlate to a greater or lesser degree , under normal circumstances , with subjective experiences of brightness . |
| 28 | A widow who 's only just been allowed home from hospital after suffering a stroke has been robbed as she lay in bed . |
| 29 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to make it absolutely clear , ’ said Angalo slowly , as a great feathery head nabbled in the water a few inches away , ‘ that if you 're suggesting that we ride on a geese — ‘ |