Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [det] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal . |
| 2 | And by then the hunger was climbing within her , fighting all reason that was insisting she would be mad to let him take advantage of her . |
| 3 | She was thus well informed of the movements of her neighbours and managed to find out any gossip that was going . |
| 4 | Carefully they cut round the base with a knife , to free any wax that was sealing it down , and eased the skep up off the base stone . |
| 5 | Bad housing , overcrowding , underfeeding , low wages , for any work that is going , household incomes cut to the limit by public assistance , or Means Test or whatever is the cutting machine of the time … these mean disease and premature death . |