Example sentences of "and be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 2 | Durie scored with just over 10 minutes remaining to complete a remarkable comeback by Tottenham , who had trailed and been outplayed for prolonged spells . |
| 3 | There was an air-raid shelter in the front garden which at home would have provoked embarrassment and been subjected to vigorous camouflage with hardy perennials ; here it evoked no more than amused pride . |
| 4 | The movie might have been truer to the actor if Hoffman had rejected retaliation and been left with physical ruin and intact theorems . ’ |
| 5 | They both have a wider perspective of life and are blessed with good manners . |
| 6 | Its beaches and terraces nestle in the arm of the spectacular Dolomite mountain range and are blessed by perfect wind conditions for both sailing and wind-surfing . |
| 7 | Basic magmas , however , which are predominantly of basaltic composition , have a much lower silica content and are erupted at high temperatures . |
| 8 | I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue . |
| 9 | Those social services that come under local government housing , personal social services and education — have their control devolved to the Scottish Office and are regulated by separate legislation . |
| 10 | That is to say that some changes are believed to arise internally within the system and are motivated by system-internal factors , whereas others are said to arise from the influence of neighbouring languages or dialects . |
| 11 | Pupils can become fascinated by mathematical contradictions and absurdities and are motivated by mathematical activity itself . |
| 12 | Three of these samples are from a single area close to the Gomakwe intrusion and are represented by open symbols in the figures , whereas the remainder ( solid symbols ) are from more widely spaced localities . |
| 13 | Most of the world 's nuclear reactors are termed thermal reactors and are fuelled by natural or enriched uranium . |
| 14 | ( ii ) smaller Student Houses in which cooking facilities are provided ; these accommodate 9 to 62 students and are situated in different parts of the city ; |
| 15 | DRAWERS are manufactured from solid beech hardwood and are mounted on easy glide telescopic roller slides |
| 16 | Some concentrate on occupation and are run as industrial units . |
| 17 | These areas are dependent on South Africa economically , and are run by local political élites dependent on South African support , frequently with corrupt administrations . |
| 18 | Several pairs of quasars have been detected which have virtually identical red shifts and are separated by small angular intervals : these pairs are now interpreted as twin images of a single quasar . |
| 19 | This indicates the sandstones can be over 30 m thick and are separated by well-defined shale beds . |
| 20 | Those patients who present with metastatic disease and are treated with maximal endocrine treatment will have a median survival of 36 months . |
| 21 | Alison Assiter extends the notion of autonomy into the private realm where the tradition cautiously refrains from setting foot , and suggests that how we treat and are treated by other people in private has a direct bearing on our autonomy in the public sphere . |
| 22 | As well as the loss of two doors , the new ZXs also drop the sideglass behind the C-pillar , gain fillets in the waistline each side of a thickened B-pillar , have door handles turned through 90degs , and are fitted with new rear bumpers , fatter C-pillars and rounded rear wheelarches . |
| 23 | These have sturdy telescopic aluminium legs which are well braced to provide good support , and are fitted with pan-and-tilt heads to enable you to make smooth camera moves . |
| 24 | They are very important bodies indeed and are recognised by central government as the mouthpiece of their respective councils . |
| 25 | Already UK companies have developed some of the best technology in the world and are exporting to other countries . |
| 26 | Faced with examples like this , the semanticist has traditionally taken one of two tacks : he can either hold that there are two distinct senses of the word and , which is thus simply ambiguous , or he can claim that the meanings of words are in general vague and protean and are influenced by collocational environments . |
| 27 | Recipes for the delicious four-course home-cooked evening meal are often created by the Blooms themselves , and are influenced by Continental cuisine . |
| 28 | In industrialised societies , even in lower economic echelons , most people have access to and are influenced by mass media communications in the form of newspapers , radio and television . |
| 29 | It was agreed that chapters 15 to 17 should be printed on yellow-tinted paper , with the following explanation at the top of the contents page : ‘ For ease of reference , chapters 15 to 17 have been placed at the front of the report , adjacent to the proposals , and are printed on tinted paper . ’ |
| 30 | Whatever the criticisms that were and are levied against Nonconformist chapel building in the nineteenth century , no one can deny that it was a tremendous undertaking . |