Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRISONERS of Conscience Orton and Vera Chirwa , whose case was highlighted by Amnesty 's 30th Anniversary Campaign , are still in detention after being unfairly tried and jailed in 1983 for expressing their non-violent political beliefs . |
| 2 | The attack on the woman , left to die after being savagely beaten and sexually attacked has outraged detectives used to dealing with the most horrific crimes . |
| 3 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 4 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |
| 5 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 6 | They are not legally defined values but are recognised as levels of good working practice and have the advantage of being easily amended if necessary in the light of new evidence as to the toxicity of a particular substance . |
| 7 | So little irritations get filed away instead of being openly expressed and before long a boiling cauldron of repressed anger has extinguished their sexual fire . |
| 8 | Some of this work has been informed from personal experience either because of being physically challenged or from having worked as a therapist , as an artist in residence within a hospital complex , in a mental institution , or has a counsellor in a hospice . |
| 9 | This stone built hotel has the reputation of being well run and offers light , spacious rooms . |
| 10 | In spite of being well fed and cared for , some dogs will steal food and scavenge at every opportunity . |
| 11 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 12 | Under thunderheads , beneath cloudcover like a coated tongue with a doctor 's pencil-torch playing on it , as in A dark carnival , we protest the Vietnam War , with vivified , uplifted faces , with the press of bodies all moving the same way , and with that sense of being both lost and right , lost and right . |
| 13 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 14 | If fire fighting is to be undertaken in such circumstances it would appear that a range of pre-planned , pre-positioned equipment is necessary , capable of being independently controlled and deployed . |
| 15 | The challenge for us is not so stark ; I do n't suppose that anyone here faces the risk of being falsely arrested and given an unjust trial . |
| 16 | The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine . |
| 17 | The classic Chaplin figure was never a worker , never a member of a class and never in danger of being politically motivated and divisive . |
| 18 | Then there 's ‘ the secret of being totally relaxed while talking to anyone ’ ( er … get drunk ? ) |
| 19 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 20 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
| 21 | Hastings affirms his loyalty to ‘ my master 's heirs in true descent ’ , despite being explicitly told that Richard intends to be king ( III.ii.36–55 ) , and in the face of ominous dreams and omens ( III.ii.10ff. , III.iv.81ff . ) . |
| 22 | In other words , the type of critical and political self-analysis which New Historicists claim to be aware of is insufficiently foregrounded when reading a Renaissance text . |
| 23 | The Consultants at least have to recognise , they could n't fix that the closure of was strongly opposed but it was a mystery to all of us except obviously Mr on the December how they were unable to nevertheless , to accept a little dissimilar rejection of part of my and the associated increased in the despite the fact that seven different people are of the same several different people same margin Mr but not . |
| 24 | Integration of was quickly effected and rationalisation , including the closure of five mills , took place before the year end . |
| 25 | The aircraft at the club I fly ( train ) from are well maintained and do have silencers — albeit they do point downwards . |
| 26 | A conveyancer is just as much dependent upon being well organised and having a methodical mind as upon his or her knowledge of the law . |
| 27 | It was such men who had to be galvanised into action by a pressing personal letter from the leader of the political interest to which they adhered , and , as Panmure was advised , it was ‘ getting such good friends to take a troublesome jaunt on them ’ which would ‘ save a sett of friends from being either affronted or over run ’ . |
| 28 | Democracy , alas , though still far from being universally practised or accepted , was already out of date . |
| 29 | Apart from being well written and a pleasure to read the overall feeling of this book is that the Author has a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject , and it is based on personal experience . |
| 30 | Curiously , at precisely the same time as the Rosenstein archive slipped through the letter box at Collectair a really superb flying model of an Etrich Taube arrived fresh from being fully restored and re-rigged ( F ) . |