Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dogs look happy enough , but they could be riddled with canine complexes . |
| 2 | I knew I 'd see the facades of Nabataean temples chiselled into the rock and that the cliff-walls would be riddled with empty tombs . |
| 3 | The Italian showman ( left ) will be roared on this weekend by a huge home crowd in the northern Italian resort as he launches his defence of the giant slalom and slalom titles he won with ease last year . |
| 4 | Last night 400 bikers were drifting away from Pier Head to other ports after being told extra boats would be chartered from alternative ports today . |
| 5 | This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction . |
| 6 | It can be blended with other fibres too . |
| 7 | A total of 500 tonnes of HEU will be blended into 15,000 tonnes of fuel , which makes the deal worth $12 billion . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , in its emphases on Aegidius and on the Thuringians , the story of Childeric 's exile does seem to be drawing on real events . |
| 9 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 10 | In conducting this study the researcher will be drawing on previous work on the relationship between science , technology , industry and the military in Britain |
| 11 | We shall be drawing upon this case further , but for the moment we want to draw attention only to the way in which the reporter , by a particular choice of descriptive vocabulary , conveyed the impression that the actions of the group were meaningless . |
| 12 | Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept . |
| 13 | However , he refused to attach too much importance to these since they could be withdrawn at any time unless they were passed into law . |
| 14 | They earn interest in dinars , calculated at the current exchange rate , and the principal can normally be withdrawn at any time in the given foreign currency . |
| 15 | The Pathfinder Force should be on a different basis and these should consist of 45 sorties , but crews could be withdrawn at any time after the completion of 30 sorties . |
| 16 | Although the rates on GIBs do tend to lag behind general market rates , fast action is often necessary to take advantage of opportunities — when interest rates fall , issues can be withdrawn without any notice , and replaced by a new issue offering a much lower return . |
| 17 | New evidence of ozone layer thinning in the Northern Hemisphere has spurred governments to tighten still further their timetables for CFCs to be withdrawn from industrial use . |
| 18 | Kleymenov , deputy head of General Headquarters of the Soviet Armed Forces in Ulan Bator , ended with an agreement in early March that all remaining Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Mongolian soil ; the operation would begin in 1991 and be completed by 1992 . |
| 19 | Government subsidies would be withdrawn from loss-making parastatals , which would have to become self-financing . |
| 20 | Counsel may be briefed with the approval of the Area Director ; assistance may be withdrawn in certain circumstances ; costs may be awarded out of the legal aid fund to an unassisted party ; the statutory charge operates subject to specified exceptions . |
| 21 | It was felt that this would enable more rail services to be withdrawn in rural areas without ‘ undue hardship ’ ( an ill-defined term ) being caused to the communities currently served by rail . |
| 22 | All American forces would be withdrawn by 30 June 1949 . |
| 23 | Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year . |
| 24 | It was also agreed that Zimbabwean troops guarding the two strategic corridors across the country be withdrawn within one month . |
| 25 | Attendance allowances will be withdrawn after four weeks . |
| 26 | Ideally the MIS should be operated on the basis of ‘ management by exception ’ , ie it should enable managers to delegate confidently in the sure knowledge that significant variances in actual performance compared with standard performance will be highlighted in timely fashion by the system . |
| 27 | Unusual terms may need to be given special prominence , or be highlighted in some way , otherwise they may not be incorporated in the contract ( Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 348 ) . |
| 28 | To account for them by subsidence , it must be assumed that preglacial subsidence was so slow that any breaches could be healed by new coral growth , while the Post-glacial rise of sea level was so rapid that any breaches formed could not be filled . |
| 29 | And now , even if the Muscovite hierarchy felt Ukrainian methods to be tinged with Latin heresy , they could no longer ignore the issues raised . |
| 30 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |