Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he aware that , under British Shipbuilders , Laird 's was classified as a naval yard , and other yards not so classified were given intervention funding ? |
| 2 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 3 | It was lovely actually , we all did was read stories nice little stories so |
| 4 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 5 | Madder has chiefly been grown to supply the colour red , and as it is a native of southern Europe and western Asia , it is not surprising that the shade of red so obtained is called Turkey red . |
| 6 | So damage is concentrated in.the cells of the liver . |
| 7 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 8 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 9 | The executive transporter bay was a chaos of foam and whirling shapes which might or might not have been armed troopers . |
| 10 | John Wayne somehow survived being christened Marion to become the living embodiment of How The West Was Won |
| 11 | Without these , military power can not long be supported Duncan Sandys , 1957 Defence White Paper . |
| 12 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 13 | The tribunal said it appeared that Ms Oruene had brought the complaint in the mistaken but genuine belief that graduates of English or Scottish universities who did not have passes in the compulsory subjects set by the faculty would still have been granted exemptions from the exams . |
| 14 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 15 | Beyond these , who are almost automatically involved in the process , stand librarians who make efforts to ensure that early reading is given prominence in both public and school library collections , social workers who know the importance of gearing the mind and interest of parents to the needs and interests of their children , and health visitors who encourage new mothers to talk and play with their babies in ways which allow growth and development to be marked by natural milestones of awareness and understanding . |
| 16 | If this were correct , Aldfrith would probably have been born c . |
| 17 | His preaching was scholarly and evangelical and he would probably have been elected Vice-President of the Conference but for the onset of ill-health . |
| 18 | They marched in three ranks of ten , which Charlie later learned were called sections , arms swinging to waist height , heads held high , one hundred and twenty paces to the minute . |
| 19 | ‘ Also , I really hate being called Bambi . |
| 20 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 21 | The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us . |
| 22 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 23 | The daughter of an Oxfordshire couple murdered four years ago has been awarded compensation . |
| 24 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 25 | So I know you wo n't mind being made use of . |
| 26 | On–y the other day she was saying to me that people with no parents did n't like being asked questions . ’ |
| 27 | Goldie — I do n't like being called Xanthe . |
| 28 | She does n't like being called Melanie ! |
| 29 | I do n't like being called sir , and the way he said it made my flesh grue . |
| 30 | Actually , she was beginning to decide that she did n't like being called Linda at all . |