Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 2 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 3 | His wife 's body was exhumed and found to be riddled with arsenic . |
| 4 | And surviving missals and other documents of the Celtic Church prove to be riddled with excerpts from Judaic apocryphal books and additional texts which had long and rigorously been forbidden by Rome . |
| 5 | And , in all probability , their imaginations will , as they say , boggle because , as you have never seen that scene in your mind 's eye , it may well be riddled with improbabilities if it is not a downright impossibility . |
| 6 | But those innocent-looking sarnies could be riddled with bacteria , such as listeria , Salmonella and Staphylococcus . |
| 7 | One would expect existing sentence patterns to be stabilised in use , and to be only minimally disturbed upon being combined to form more complex syntactic units . |
| 8 | Provided that environmental concerns are met and are specifically addressed in the planning process , we believe that output from the opencast sector must be blended with output from the deep-mine sector . |
| 9 | The alcohol can be blended with petrol to a proportion of up to 20% alcohol and run in a conventional car engine without adjustment . |
| 10 | It will be drawing on sale catalogues , periodicals and modern books on English furniture . |
| 11 | The C.-in-C. of the CIS Armed Forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , who met US Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow on Jan. 29 , said in London on Jan. 30 that tactical nuclear weapons located in all former Soviet republics , except Ukraine and Byelarus , would be withdrawn to Russia by July . |
| 12 | The Committee ordered that the member 's Practising Certificate be withdrawn with effect from 1 February 1993 . |
| 13 | This kills the tiny parasite , which can then be withdrawn with tweezers and the wound treated by immersion in a solution of malachite green to prevent secondary fungal infection . |
| 14 | If the pupil needs to be withdrawn for specialist teaching for a substantial amount of schoolwork , unit provision has a lot to offer . |
| 15 | Now , less than 12 months later we are told it is to be withdrawn on February 23 . |
| 16 | Sight deposits are any deposits that can be withdrawn on demand by the depositor without penalty . |
| 17 | 63,000 claims to be withdrawn following investigation by Employment Service inspectors |
| 18 | The pilot scheme can only be used by consenting parties which consent can not be withdrawn without leave of the court . |
| 19 | All or part of the investment can be withdrawn without notice or penalty , provided the minimum balance stays at £10,000 . |
| 20 | – account , money deposited in a bank , not to be withdrawn without notice , on which interest is payable . |
| 21 | However , he emphasised that Ukraine wanted a share of the resources allocated to the former Soviet Union by Germany , for resettling on its territory some of the former Soviet servicemen who were to be withdrawn from Germany by 1994 [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 22 | Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 . |
| 23 | Therefore , because it is unlikely that there will ever be revised editions , and because I should just hate to see my name on anything that could not be relied on , the probability is that the books will progressively be withdrawn from publication after a currency of a few years . ’ |
| 24 | Russian troops were to be withdrawn from Manchuria . |
| 25 | At present , the Australian stations are served by three ageing chartered supply vessels — one of which is to be withdrawn from service in 1987/88 . |
| 26 | It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that the Iowa , together with its sister ship the New Jersey , was to be withdrawn from service after repairs had been completed [ see also p. 37178 ] . |
| 27 | If it did not , it could always argue that many more children would be withdrawn from school altogether . |
| 28 | American and Russian armed forces would have to be withdrawn from Korea as soon as possible and within three months of a Korean government being formed . |
| 29 | Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises . |
| 30 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |