Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRISONERS of Conscience Orton and Vera Chirwa , whose case was highlighted by Amnesty 's 30th Anniversary Campaign , are still in detention after being unfairly tried and jailed in 1983 for expressing their non-violent political beliefs . |
| 2 | The attack on the woman , left to die after being savagely beaten and sexually attacked has outraged detectives used to dealing with the most horrific crimes . |
| 3 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 4 | So little irritations get filed away instead of being openly expressed and before long a boiling cauldron of repressed anger has extinguished their sexual fire . |
| 5 | This stone built hotel has the reputation of being well run and offers light , spacious rooms . |
| 6 | In spite of being well fed and cared for , some dogs will steal food and scavenge at every opportunity . |
| 7 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 8 | Under thunderheads , beneath cloudcover like a coated tongue with a doctor 's pencil-torch playing on it , as in A dark carnival , we protest the Vietnam War , with vivified , uplifted faces , with the press of bodies all moving the same way , and with that sense of being both lost and right , lost and right . |
| 9 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 10 | If fire fighting is to be undertaken in such circumstances it would appear that a range of pre-planned , pre-positioned equipment is necessary , capable of being independently controlled and deployed . |
| 11 | The challenge for us is not so stark ; I do n't suppose that anyone here faces the risk of being falsely arrested and given an unjust trial . |
| 12 | The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine . |
| 13 | The classic Chaplin figure was never a worker , never a member of a class and never in danger of being politically motivated and divisive . |
| 14 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
| 15 | Integration of was quickly effected and rationalisation , including the closure of five mills , took place before the year end . |
| 16 | The aircraft at the club I fly ( train ) from are well maintained and do have silencers — albeit they do point downwards . |
| 17 | A conveyancer is just as much dependent upon being well organised and having a methodical mind as upon his or her knowledge of the law . |
| 18 | Apart from being well written and a pleasure to read the overall feeling of this book is that the Author has a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject , and it is based on personal experience . |
| 19 | Curiously , at precisely the same time as the Rosenstein archive slipped through the letter box at Collectair a really superb flying model of an Etrich Taube arrived fresh from being fully restored and re-rigged ( F ) . |
| 20 | The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other . |
| 21 | All new ideas need to be strongly challenged and tested at the planning stage and the marketing agnostic on the staff will often usefully worry out unsuspected flaws . |
| 22 | They therefore need to be strongly managed and should not be left to the local office to undertake on their own . |
| 23 | With melodies , accompaniment figuration , choruses and arias on a par with Handel 's very best , Archiv has produced a recording to be strongly recommended and much enjoyed . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) They show the history department to be forward thinking and concerned about its students and their varied interests . |
| 25 | Quality standards require documents and correspondence on a case to be properly stored and readily accessible . |
| 26 | I want community care to be properly implemented and funded , with nurses prescribing as a part of their work in the care of people living at home . |
| 27 | It will take time for the implications of his work to be properly assimilated and understood ; the process involves transposition from a cultural context that is more remote than the French . |
| 28 | Where this is provided by employers it is important for the costs to be properly recognised and funded . |
| 29 | Now that I 'm a family member I 'll expect to be properly insured and have a maintenance contract . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ in the wreck of human affairs , indeed , God often makes His truth appear ; and causes His Gospel , like a plank thrown out to the perishing mariner , to be properly known and prized . ’ |