Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 2 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 3 | The familiar carcrash sculptures have now been hand-painted and christened with punning titles : ‘ Headly Lamarr ’ ; ‘ A Spear de Corps ’ ; ‘ Advice Squad ’ . |
| 4 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 5 | I am shy when faced with people I do not know |
| 6 | Diana is said to have been upset and angered by phone calls between Camilla and Charles . |
| 7 | ( Although Billy had undoubtedly been guilty as charged , the evidence against him had been largely manufactured , and none of his family had ever recovered from the injustice of this . ) |
| 8 | One ingenious convict , Alfie Hinds , sued a police officer for stating in the " News of the World " that Hinds had been guilty as charged . |
| 9 | They are given the status of goddesses by virtue of their being , in a Swedeoborgian sense , vessels of symbolic love and so they are mystified and removed from the realms of real , whole , sexual beings . |
| 10 | It should be stressed that the pay and allowances provided at Westminster are low when compared with those at other legislatures of similar status . |
| 11 | All are strong and made to high-quality standards , and provide a useful means of securing valuables such as workshops , tool sheds , tool boxes , etc . |
| 12 | Shakes are possible if confined to notes within the treble stave , but opportunities for their appropriate use are very rare and the inexperienced orchestrator is advised to keep his horn parts in general as simple as possible and to avoid wide and ‘ unvocal ’ leaps . |
| 13 | Prisoner at the bar , you are guilty until proved innocent |
| 14 | We are helping to set up protected National Parks and helping communities to ‘ harvest ’ the forests , so they see how much more valuable the forests are intact than cut down . |
| 15 | ‘ At the moment you are weak and shaken . |
| 16 | Most of the vines are east-facing and located to the north of the village , with the best sites found at heights between 140 and 220 metres . |
| 17 | A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down . |
| 18 | The Directive requires the adoption of uniform rules of law by all member states in the matter of unfair terms , which should apply to all contracts between sellers or suppliers , of goods and services , and consumers , whether such contracts are oral or written . |
| 19 | His buildings are as exciting naked as they are sumptuous when adorned . |
| 20 | These parts of the file are interrelated as shown in Fig. 7.1 . |
| 21 | Carbon dioxide emissions per head of population may be low in the developing countries , but they are high when measured against units of GDP . |
| 22 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 23 | In Mozambique , more than two hundred thousand have been orphaned or separated from their families . |
| 24 | A candid confession to youthful pot-smoking , it is generally agreed , is no longer a disqualification for office , but the sore part of the latest wound — pretty mild by Clinton standards — was that he had been evasive when asked repeatedly about it for at least seven years and that even last week 's admission was shifty . |
| 25 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 26 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 27 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 28 | The sky , which had been clear and filled with stars , was clouding over and a moist wind blew in from the sea . |
| 29 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 30 | Some aposematic prey that are conspicuous when seen at close quarters appear cryptic when living in family groups and viewed from a distance . |