Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no totally ‘ green ’ energy source and if we want to help the environment we must be sparing with what we use and campaign for renewable energy sources — like wind , wave and solar power — to be invested in and taken more seriously . |
| 2 | It is rather expensive — there are so many competing demands for the raw material — so you will naturally be sparing with it . |
| 3 | If there were large regions of anti-matter in our galaxy , we would expect to observe large quantities of radiation from the borders between the regions of matter and antimatter , where many particles would be colliding with their antiparticles , annihilating each other and giving off high energy radiation . |
| 4 | The Trust will be drawing on its experience of upland erosion and repair work in the Lake District ; it will also be liaising with the many bodies which take an interest in the Mournes , including Down District Council , the Mournes Advisory Council and the education and library boards . |
| 5 | After half a century , the Hashemite adventure in Palestine seems to be drawing to its close . |
| 6 | The day that would soon be drawing to its close had been one of the most wonderful he had experienced : the theft , the murder , the link between the theft and the murder — yes , all now known . |
| 7 | Those remaining open may be drawing upon their stock for the summer programme . |
| 8 | Indeed , Russia seemed to be drawing in her horns on the eastern edge of her dominions . |
| 9 | If he wins a subsequent bout also by disqualification , then he must be withdrawn for his own safety , since it is obvious that , in this tournament at least , he is not protecting himself adequately . |
| 10 | While leaders of all the main political parties expressed their condemnation of the March 31 violence , David Waddington , the Home Secretary , asserted on April 1 that certain Labour MPs who advocated non-payment must bear some of the blame for the events of the previous day , and Patten called for the Labour whip to be withdrawn from them . |
| 11 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 12 | Turning and seeing her , he affirms her deed as an act of faith : ‘ Daughter , your faith has made you well ; go in peace and be healed of your disease . ’ |
| 13 | The priest was the only one who could declare a person to be healed from their leprosy . |
| 14 | If we observe a pile of books hanging in the air , we might say : ‘ They must be resting on something . |
| 15 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 16 | The hand does not have to be on the table ; it could , for example , be resting on your chin . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're supposed to be resting on your side , ’ she said sternly . |
| 18 | By ensuring rejection in this way he was also ensuring that he would not be enslaved by anyone else 's methods of work . |
| 19 | ‘ The plane will be guarded from its arrival in Paris , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Whale ( 1977 , p. 80 ) has justified unregulated commercial control of the press by arguing that ‘ a newspaper controlled by a commercial group writes inhibitedly about a handful of concerns at most ; a paper owned by the state , the effective alternative , would be guarded in its outlook on whole areas of the national life ’ . |
| 21 | Such self-indulgence needs to be guarded against what is pleasurable for teachers is not necessarily beneficial to children . |
| 22 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 23 | He may be disgusted , offended , annoyed , angered and no doubt a number of other things as well ; and he may be provoked by what he sees and hears into breaking the peace . |
| 24 | Only where the person using the foul language makes it plain that he has no intention of resorting to violence , and there is no bystander who is likely to be provoked by what the defendant is doing , is no offence committed under this section . |
| 25 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 26 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 27 | Biological response modifiers such as cytokines and growth factors released in peritumoral tissues , perhaps by the neoplastic cells themselves , may well be implicated in their activation . |
| 28 | It will be intriguing to see whether Romania 's rather conservative tactics will be altered under their new manager , Mircea Paraschiv , and new coach , Florin Popovici , who both took over last month . |
| 29 | It is only justice that the laws should be altered in their favour . |
| 30 | Its meaning can be altered by its altered context . |