Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of the properties Citalia has secured are in an old farmhouse on the estate about two miles away from the castle . |
| 2 | I think probably many of you are familiar with the concepts that Phill described and what those concepts what the client server approach has done is to really bring about quite a revolutionary new breed of systems since the term was first coined in fact by in ninety eighty seven . |
| 3 | Another breakthrough Chris has made is with Neon Tetra Disease . |
| 4 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 5 | The extent to which this has occurred is to be investigated . |
| 6 | In fact what has happened is by approving their constitutions the Charity Trustees have delegated the management of the affairs of the local branches to freely elected committees of local members . |
| 7 | Birmingham has a fascinating heritage which has left is with a wealth of attractions for the visitor . |
| 8 | Clearly there is more to memory than the reproduction of numbers or lists and another distinction which has arisen is between episodic and semantic memory . |
| 9 | Where the divergence has arisen is in the statement of dogma into which educators have been lured . |
| 10 | Despite this assertion of confidence in the judiciary , there must be some doubt as to whether the law as it has evolved is in the best interests of the victim . |
| 11 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 12 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 13 | He made a sweeping movement with his hand , as if what she 'd said was of no interest . |
| 14 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 15 | It appeared that the roof Billy had fallen off was in one Coroner 's jurisdiction , but where he 'd landed was in another 's . |
| 16 | The most common , but least obvious , way that sites get buried is through the natural processes of decay and renewal . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd have hated being in one of those old people 's flats , and they 're miles from the centre . |
| 18 | But his hand was up , silencing me and what he must have guessed were to be my thanks . |
| 19 | Heron can not have enjoyed being on his list but the prospect of negotiating with Mr Klesch can only encourage the company to settle quickly and generously . |
| 20 | He 'd have enjoyed being on this trip with us today , you know . ’ |
| 21 | Nevertheless the rough tone , irregular rhythms and ‘ dirty ’ intonation that most blues singers would have used are for the most part conspicuously absent in Elvis 's performance ; his tone is full , rich and well produced , his intonation is precise , stable and ‘ correct ’ , the notes are sustained and held right through , and the phrasing is legato . |
| 22 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 23 | Because I think one of the extraordinary changes that have taken place in history at professional level is the much greater interest in things that older historian would have thought was outside their province . |
| 24 | Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash . |
| 25 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 26 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 27 | In other words the protest would need to involve activity which , it could be fairly held , the protesters should have known was against the law . |
| 28 | JEAN-MARIE Yacoubou , a former prisoner of conscience in Benin , told the Hammersmith & Fulham Group recently that he could never have imagined being among the people with whom he had corresponded while in prison . |
| 29 | The last thing I would have wanted was for you to become emotionally involved with me . ’ |
| 30 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |