Example sentences of "be [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where murmurs have been heard is in the area of bouncer-restriction . |
| 2 | If the soil that has been excavated is in poor physical condition , discard it and backfill with sand or pea gravel . |
| 3 | Another area in which new technology has been developed is in the manufacture of dyestuffs used in the coatings of carbonless papers ( the Ciba-Geigy Pergascript range of colour formers ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The only figure we have been given is of £28,000 which was spent on the cleaning of the graffiti . ’ |
| 5 | Such craters are now known elsewhere in the Solar System as you have already seen in the case of Mars , and therefore the mechanism by which they are formed is of widespread relevance . |
| 6 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 7 | It is your responsibility to ensure that you and those for whom you are booking are in possession of valid passport and any appropriate visas ( please see Holiday Information on page 14 ) . |
| 8 | Secondly , as Knox argued after publication of the RAWP report , people who are dying are among the heaviest users of services . |
| 9 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 10 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 11 | Assuming it to be out there somewhere they have joined forces with the Utopians and Marxists and missed the fact that the spiritual galaxy for which they are searching is like the Milky Way . |
| 12 | Its report refers to the ‘ few minutes ’ in which broadcasters can consider whether what has been said is on the wrong side of the law . |
| 13 | However , such progress as has been made is in areas that are well defined in advance — which , by definition is not usually the case in the are a of strategic decision making . |
| 14 | So much of what has been written is of the doom and gloom variety . |
| 15 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |
| 16 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , just ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 17 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 18 | However , the questions and issues this material raises about the way primary classrooms are organized are worth presenting as an extension of those above . |
| 19 | ‘ Currently the most important influence we 're seeing is from athletic sportswear . |
| 20 | It 's a pity in a way that we did n't have this discussion before , because I do think it 's important and I think parties these days , goodness knows what we 're matching is to , should be a bit and they want more , sort of less than putting in less fifty percent . |
| 21 | This bridge we 're guarding is of great strategic importance . |
| 22 | ‘ Celeste may attend every Grand Prix , but — ’ his dark brown eyes met hers ‘ — that wo n't stop the gossips assuming that the next place we 're heading is into bed . ’ |
| 23 | TIP Get several estimates , or recommendations from friends or consult Which ? magazine before deciding whether any goods or services you 're offered are in fact good value . |
| 24 | So what you 're really saying is that the computers of the kind you 're describing are for the ordinary person . |
| 25 | The property is inspected by a valuer who tells us whether the place you 're buying is worth what we 'll be lending — not what you 're paying for it . |
| 26 | So , on the seventh floor the floor tiles are next and the next job they 're doing is on the eighth which is more floor tiling . |
| 27 | Whatever they 're doing is by their own choice . ’ |
| 28 | Councillor regrets that er we 're bringing council rents up by nine and half percent but what we 're doing is in fact precisely what his government is recommending us to do , so I 'm a little sup so would councillor kindly at some point explain why he regrets his own government 's policy . |
| 29 | Housework and organizing a home and looking after small children is very much context creating all the time , and you 're doing is in your capacity as a relation of , you know , certain males , other people of your family . |
| 30 | That 's right if you er so this point two quantifies the effect of the war on our equation , and where is the so the intercept , well what you 're saying is in peacetime the intercept is equation three point one seven , however , in war time the intercept shifts up and is now three point one seven plus point two , |