Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for his qualities and accomplishments , they can not be altogether passed over in what is intended to be , however inadequate , a whole-hearted tribute of affection , admiration and regard . |
| 2 | Although the Bank of England does not forbid them to do so , such stakes would have to be wholly written off against capital . |
| 3 | To this extent , of course , a synchronically divergent language state requires the same kind of treatment as a historically divergent state : in neither case can it be assumed that the norms of some ‘ standard ’ variety can be successfully projected on to it . |
| 4 | As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community . |
| 5 | George Stephen remembered how as a youth he heard ‘ many a semi-domestic debate as to the extent to which parliamentary manoeuvring could be successfully carried out with the ministerial benches ’ . |
| 6 | The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) . |
| 7 | The Area successfully tendered for another section of the M74 ( Elvanfoot ) which will be mostly carried out in 1993 . |
| 8 | In fact , that is allied to their one main fault : they are rather tender , do n't like exposed positions and can be badly cut about by cold winds . |
| 9 | Many different groups are involved in the pollination of modern angiosperms and , in rain forest , this seems to be rather bound up with the level in the forest at which the flowers are presented . |
| 10 | to be laughingly bundled up to the template , |
| 11 | If Balbinder was bussed to Cedars every day she would be effectively cut off from any real involvement in her children 's schooling , and from an important part of her own role within the community as the mother of a young child at the local school . |
| 12 | Thousands of people will be effectively priced out of the system , no matter how strong their cases may appear . |
| 13 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 14 | It adds that , at current rates , the forests ' will be effectively logged out within 40 years . |
| 15 | It could be that your owner might consider replacing you with a Basenji if you do n't quieten down , and your nose will be properly put out of joint . |
| 16 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 17 | Curtains can also be elegantly draped back over specially designed curtain-holders . |
| 18 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 19 | Large leaves may need support from a cane or , in the case of ficus , can be gently rolled up with an elastic band . |
| 20 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 21 | Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 22 | Atlanta , Georgia , the show site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . |
| 23 | Once or twice they 'd had to sleep down there , though not often because Gloria said it was n't nice to be all pressed up against people you did n't know . |
| 24 | ‘ The sandwiches 'll be all curled up at the edges , ’ his mum complained . |
| 25 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 26 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |
| 27 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 28 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 29 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 30 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |