Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | We are gathered here a little before Christmas to perform our annual fishing industry pre-ministerial Council season 's service — that litany of woe from every corner of the kingdom — telling of sad tidings of discomfort and no joy in the industry . |
| 3 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 4 | PLAYER : Between " just deserts " and " tragic irony " we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent . |
| 5 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 6 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 7 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 8 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 9 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 10 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 11 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 12 | The two staircases that are situated just a couple of yards from each other are another curious remnant from the past . |
| 13 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 14 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
| 15 | My guess is that most have been discarded once an aircraft goes out of service , or even worse , confined to the skip when a travel agent or airline goes out of business . |
| 16 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 17 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 18 | ‘ Some people are booked quite a way in advance and others we do n't get a lot of notice of at all … |
| 19 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 20 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 21 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 22 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 23 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 24 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 25 | The Allied line had been pushed forward an average of 823m/900yds and , at the farthest , near Langemarck , about 1.6km/1ml . |
| 26 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 27 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 28 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 29 | Visits to local chateaux and places of interest ( Saumur and Fontevraud ) are organized twice a week as part of the summer group vacation course , and a party and a disco evening are held during the course . |
| 30 | Unscheduled Okay , this is er , it 's , it 's a diagnostic sheet if you find that you 're interrupted quite a lot over time , for you know , at a particular time , and you want to find out why you 're becoming less effective , you use this to log interruptions . |