Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 2 | Their heads had been eased into the yoke , and they were now locked into the system . |
| 3 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 4 | The water shortage faced by thousands of refugees in Jordan has been eased with the help of the Oxford based charity Oxfam . |
| 5 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 6 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 7 | Financial insecurity , once the big driving force , has been eased by the salary , perks and pension of the commissionership , according to his friends . |
| 8 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 9 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 10 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 11 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 12 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 13 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 14 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 15 | Before Nathan entered , her mind had been filled with the prospect of playing Lady Macbeth at last , and to all appearance she might still have been thinking of nothing but that . |
| 16 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 17 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 18 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 19 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 20 | Here , the intergranular pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement leaving only leached porosity , and the sonic log displays a very clear downward-decreasing porosity profile in the uppermost unit of oolitic grainstone ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 21 | In the second well , however , the sonic log indicates that the upper unit is much tighter and the core descriptions suggest that the pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement . |
| 22 | As each financial year passes , the bow-wave does , indeed , dissipate as research and development programmes meet snags ; as decisions are delayed in the labyrinth of Whitehall committees ; as procurement contracts slip behind schedule ; and as units expend less than they asked for due to similar delays in their day-to-day training and operations . |
| 23 | Who will pay compensation if one operators ' trains are delayed by a breakdown of a train by another operator ? |
| 24 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 25 | A hoard at Ardnave may have been hidden at the time of the Civil War , between 1638 and 1650 and certainly after 1640 . |
| 26 | In any case , if there was an innocent explanation of the existence of the photograph , why had it been hidden at the bottom of the drawer ? |
| 27 | Det Supt Ron Coutts , heading the investigation , said the devices found in the evening had been hidden outwith the areas searched in the morning . |
| 28 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 29 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 30 | His face had been hidden in the darkness , yet she thought she would recognise him if they met again . |