Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | However , where , as was the case with Akzo 's pricing policy , the prices charged were below average total cost ( that is , including fixed costs ) but above average variable cost , they could only be considered predatory if they were established as part of a plan to eliminate competitors . |
| 3 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 4 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 5 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 6 | The sample used was of large companies that were known to be at the leading edge in terms of corporate planning practices . |
| 7 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The impression they created was of two young men , very smart , well-spoken , trading high-value stones for far too much money , ’ Mr Curtis told the jury . |
| 10 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 12 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 13 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 14 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 15 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 16 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 17 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 18 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 19 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 20 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 21 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 22 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 23 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 24 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 25 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 26 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 27 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 28 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 29 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 30 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |