Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 3 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 4 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 5 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 6 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 7 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 8 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 9 | You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void . |
| 10 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 12 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 13 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 14 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 15 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 16 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 17 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 18 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 19 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 20 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 21 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 22 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 23 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 24 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 25 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 26 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 27 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 28 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 29 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 30 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |