Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when parenting is shared the lines of responsibility are blurred and formal assessments can lead to resentment . |
| 2 | Good negotiating discipline is to sum regularly , thereby ensuring points of progress are agreed and noted stage by stage . |
| 3 | By experiencing beauty in such things , the contrasts and rhymes they present to perception are clarified and balanced . |
| 4 | Three women hit by the runaway car were cut and bruised — and one suffered a broken leg . |
| 5 | Never a big man , overnight his frame seemed to have become almost frail and the sinews in his neck were raised and stringy above the cotton roll-neck . |
| 6 | Brothers Sefic and Safet Alic and father-of three Ramo Besic were exhausted and ill when they arrived at Stansted in September last year . |
| 7 | And they 're offering a £5,000 reward for information leading to the killer being found and convicted . |
| 8 | It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place . |
| 9 | ‘ Naturally I want to be sure that we have very precise data about radon 's limited and localised occurrence . |
| 10 | Kun is quickwitted and charming ; his easy grace and sweet but never cloying tone are a real boon in the playful little Rosenkavalier -like inflexions which characterize so much of the score ( Bernstein was always so Viennese at heart ) ; his quiet contemplative manner pays rich dividends in the slow movement , ‘ Agathon ’ ( seven of Bernstein 's most poised and affecting minutes ) . |
| 11 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 12 | The mood has been very different from Labour 's controlled and skilfully-packaged press conferences , where Mr Kinnock and his shadow Cabinet colleagues have presented themselves as a government-in-waiting . |
| 13 | Such research is systematised and operationalised as therapy through the application of bereavement theory , developed as a way of conceptualising normal and ‘ healthy ’ mourning of the loss of a loved one , to disablement : |
| 14 | But this poses a dilemma for the vigneron because the vine , once pruned , is at its most vulnerable to frost , while to wait for the danger of frost to subside would be to waste the vine 's limited and precious energy : the decision of when to prune can prove an expensive one . |
| 15 | our sensibility is deepened and enlarged and thereby our capacity for responding sensitively to the world . |
| 16 | Bounce light is diffused and soft in character , and hence similar to normal room lighting . |
| 17 | A vast number of frequent marginal improvements are more effective than one large single improvement as the momentum is maintained and realistic manageable change is always on the agenda . |
| 18 | The distal most papilla is enlarged and block-like . |
| 19 | Here … a portion of the social labour is liberated and devoted to an extension of social production ( new production branches ; extension of old branches ) . |
| 20 | In contrast , exploitation tends to involve the rapid diminution of resources , often to such an extent that the capacity for renewal is destroyed and optimum returns are short-lived . |
| 21 | Much of our talk is veiled and indirect . |
| 22 | There were 18 medals at stake there , and this Grove-based club took twelve of them , proof again of how well their top talent is coached and motivated . |
| 23 | Breath methane was monitored and metabolic activities of methanogenic bacteria and sulphate reducing bacteria studied in faecal samples . |
| 24 | Breath methane was measured and viable counts and metabolic activities of methanogenic bacteria and sulphate reducing bacteria determined in faeces . |
| 25 | Now its own rhythm was strained and sluggish . |
| 26 | After the breakdown of relations with China in 1978/79 , conditions deteriorated further as Chinese and Western aid was withdrawn and military resources were committed to toppling the Pol Pot government in Cambodia and defending the Chinese border . |
| 27 | In fact , once the investment was completed and operational , the accounting data were highly aggregated , designed merely to keep a more general watch on total operating costs . |
| 28 | In one extraordinary case in 1987 , the defendant was charged and convicted of an offence , called abusing a constable in the execution of his office , contrary to the Justices of the Peace Act 1361 . |
| 29 | Ceramic polychrome was introduced and coloured tiling for roofs . |
| 30 | His reply was measured and strong . |