Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Abstract nouns , participles , and relative pronouns are italicized in the above passage . ) |
| 2 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 3 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 4 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 5 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 6 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 7 | I reflected that I was not sure if I had ever been filled with the Holy Spirit , let alone spoken the word of God boldly . |
| 8 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 9 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 10 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 11 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 12 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 13 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 14 | Saturday was sunny and bright , and any claim that the match would be settled by tomorrow evening would have been dismissed with a scornful cackle . |
| 15 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy announced on Oct. 16 that the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff and the Commander of the Development Forces of the army had been dismissed following the late delivery of fuel to the capital . |
| 16 | Seven players have been dismissed in the latest intercontinental group stages and last night the organising committee of four officials each from Italy and England , chaired by Bristol City 's Leslie Kew , held a crisis meeting in Pisa . |
| 17 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 18 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 19 | The book had been published in March 1990 , and the case against Hamid had previously been dismissed by a civil court in May 1991 . |
| 20 | Appeal lost AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB , to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 21 | AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 22 | The following day , the Committee issued a manifesto expounding its justification for the rising , and appointed General Franco — who , it will be remembered , had been dismissed by the legitimate government of the nation — as chief of the Armies of Morocco and southern Spain . |
| 23 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 24 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 25 | I am fascinated by every single bar . |
| 26 | I am fascinated by the sculptural elements in nature . |
| 27 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 28 | ( In practice , the differences are not that great : " presidential wars " have been waged without a congressional declaration of war , while in Britain a government taking military action abroad will seek the consent of Parliament . ) |
| 29 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |
| 30 | It has also been examined as a potential animal feed . |