Example sentences of "be [num ord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they are first chipped out of the rock such fossils will often be partly concealed by matrix . |
| 2 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 3 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 4 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 5 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 7 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 8 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 9 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 10 | In the consultation document that was first put out to the public in nineteen ninety one , the public was only offered the yellow route . |
| 11 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 12 | The town centre , west of the Windrush river , was first laid out by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th. century , and is considered to be a fine example of medieval town planning . |
| 13 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |
| 14 | But erm it was diagnosed late , you see , having polyneuritis for three months , that the er the movement was last to come back in the toes and feet . |