Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But at first you did n't realise that was what it was , that it was the novelty of ice cream wrappers and sweet papers and carrier bags and plastic bags strewn about that had changed the appearance of your childhood home , where nothing was ever discarded , but all returned into the cycle of sustenance . |
| 2 | If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect ? |
| 3 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 4 | Watching at the scene was one of the unfortunate residents , Mr. Worby , manager of the Co-operative Society 's Outfitting Department where I was often taken to buy clothes . |
| 5 | The ease with which patients are managed in these settings contrasts with the chaos that commonly ensues when a single anorexia nervosa patient is treated on a general psychiatric or medical ward , where she is either afforded special status or rejected because her illness is seen as self-inflicted . |
| 6 | Jodie Foster , fresh from her triumphs in The Accused ( released on video last month ) , is the only reason to bother , as with Five Corners ( 15 Pathe 13 Oct ) , where she is almost raped again and is carted about , unconscious , by a psychopath . |
| 7 | Mother , on the other head , goes to Bernard of Anlaby Road once a fortnight , where she 's ceremonially washed , lotioned , rollered , dried , combed-out and lacquered for roughly the price of my pansy-brain shampoo . |
| 8 | So Anna was taken to her new home , where she was well cared for , and her new owner tried patiently to handle and groom her . |
| 9 | Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for . |
| 10 | She was asked to step next door where she was cursorily examined by a female Indian doctor who offered no opinion . |
| 11 | Quite clearly , if you have a strong need for the company of others then a technical research job where you are largely left to your own devices may prove stressful — unless you do a lot of extra-curricular socialising as compensation . |
| 12 | After 5 days in Rotorua we went south to Taupo , a disappointing touristy place except for a lovely walk to the Huka Falls beside the crystal-clear , swirling waters of the Waikato River , and a visit to Cherry Island ( in the river ) where you are warmly greeted by numerous tame animals and birds as you roam around . |
| 13 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 14 | He or she is best placed to give you legal advice , and to liaise with the other professional agencies involved . |
| 15 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 16 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 17 | In most universities , he or she is often called the vice-chancellor — the title " chancellor " being reserved for another notable figure who fills that largely ceremonial and dignified office . |
| 18 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 19 | When he or she is perhaps overwhelmed by events , offers of practical help may be exactly what the person could do with , rather than being asked to confront difficult emotional reactions . |
| 20 | ‘ Honda 's fitment of airbags , ahead of its competitors , meets the greatest remaining problem with current seatbelts — that of the driver 's face striking the steering wheel even when he or she is correctly restrained ’ |
| 21 | Where a registered foreign lawyer who would , apart from this rule , be required to pay an annual contribution or special levy , claims , and the Council agrees , that he or she is so covered in respect of dishonesty or failure to account , whether by a compensation fund other than the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund , or by an indemnity fund other than the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund , or by compulsory insurance , that there is a substantial reduction in the risk to the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund in respect of his or her practice in comparison with the risk presented by a solicitor practising in a like manner , the Council may reduce that annual contribution or special levy to such amount as the Council thinks fit or to zero . |
| 22 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |
| 23 | If the idea originator wishes to proceed , he or she is then asked to prepare a brief , one or two page description , sometimes referred to as an idea memorandum ( IM ) . |
| 24 | The Scotch Whisky Association and its member companies fund research and support educational measures aimed at those who are most at risk or who are best placed to influence them . |
| 25 | They care for short-term patients who can afford to pay or who are privately insured . |
| 26 | Those linked in any way with the half-dozen Marxist guerrilla groups , or who are vaguely suspected of being ‘ subversives ’ by the country 's right-wing extremists , may be shot at , bombed , tortured or killed . |
| 27 | The protected class must also admit to its membership those who are not presently disabled but who have a previous history of disability , or who are wrongly perceived as being disabled . |
| 28 | Any one of us may arrest a person who is , or who is reasonably suspected to be , in the act of committing an ‘ arrestable ’ offence . |
| 29 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |
| 30 | We had already negotiated long stretches of the Cherwell where we were completely hidden from view . |