Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made you sound worried and puzzled and angry all at the same time , and that was right for what was happening . |
| 2 | People should feel as if there is something wrong with this and be upset about what is happening to them . |
| 3 | Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei , President Suharto of Indonesia , Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed and Singapore 's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong met in Bali on March 3-5 for what was described as neither an informal summit meeting nor a mini-summit , but a seminar , with the theme " ASEAN and the world economy " . |
| 4 | The M15 follow-on to the current i860 XP has n't been cancelled , but Intel is n't being very specific about what is going to happen to it . |
| 5 | You were right about him being mentioned in the Eye ; appeared a few times and I got the cuts up … ’ |
| 6 | Suddenly everything shifted slightly out of focus , all the certainty that she was right about his being involved , and she was left feeling totally disorientated . |
| 7 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 8 | I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . |
| 9 | Walking across the Bonaparte Bridge , I looked in vain for what was marked by a giant cross on the tourist map . |
| 10 | There are implications in all of this for what are regarded as indices of success for enforcement officials and agencies . |
| 11 | Okay you 're not too bothered about what 's going on internally |
| 12 | ‘ According to the pathologist , the timing is wrong for her being poisoned except at the meal . |
| 13 | Finally , other people involved in the patient 's care should be clear about what is happening . |
| 14 | Tasks should be clearly defined and every pupil must be clear about what is expected of him . |
| 15 | ‘ It has provided a mechanism for formalising everything in writing so people are very clear about what is expected of them . |
| 16 | I am not clear about what was made available in the report last night and what was published in newspapers earlier . |
| 17 | Besides , women workers might be cheaper , but too many depressed breadwinners could damage national morale , and morale needed to be high for what was coming . |
| 18 | If you are in any way doubtful about what is happening , or are disorientated or confused , the first rule of model helicopter flying is to add power and go up . |
| 19 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 20 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 21 | Considering the Hay & Maddock results for human geography , where the authors found that 40% of social scientists rarely refer to theses , and 29% do not use them at all , it will be apparent that geological theses form a significant element in the communication process , since almost half of them are cited . |
| 22 | I do n't know why they do it , the screws , because half of them are bent as butchers ' hooks anyway . |
| 23 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 24 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 25 | During the subsequent forty years , witchcraft prosecutions reached unprecedented heights ; in Essex , where there was an unusually high incidence of trials , as many as 163 women were indicted between 1560 and 1600 , with roughly half of them being convicted and burnt . |
| 26 | Half of them were based in London and the rest in Scotland , East Anglia and the Midlands . |
| 27 | Half of them were given AZT and the rest got placebos or dummy capsules . |
| 28 | They had delivered the correct total quantity of tins but half of them were packed in cases of 24 tins each . |
| 29 | By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle , stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes . |
| 30 | Russians applied to enter this country and less than half of them were allowed in ? |