Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Ewe of Bé called for guns , the Kabye said they would find guns too . |
| 2 | I knew I 'd see the facades of Nabataean temples chiselled into the rock and that the cliff-walls would be riddled with empty tombs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But those innocent-looking sarnies could be riddled with bacteria , such as listeria , Salmonella and Staphylococcus . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She must be riddled , |
| 9 | His wife 's body was exhumed and found to be riddled with arsenic . |
| 10 | These dogs look happy enough , but they could be riddled with canine complexes . |
| 11 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 12 | The Italian showman ( left ) will be roared on this weekend by a huge home crowd in the northern Italian resort as he launches his defence of the giant slalom and slalom titles he won with ease last year . |
| 13 | Last night 400 bikers were drifting away from Pier Head to other ports after being told extra boats would be chartered from alternative ports today . |
| 14 | He secured permission from the Home Secretary for Lizzy to be disinterred but , unlike Berlioz , he could not face the grisly spectacle , and delegated the task to his lawyer . |
| 15 | Just what makes an environment appropriate to be gazed upon as tourists ? |
| 16 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 17 | First , the crumbling structure must be stabilised . |
| 18 | My reason for mentioning queues , however , is that there are ways in which a human queue might be stabilised which are unlikely to operate among animals . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Anxious to proceed as carefully as possible the Procuratia has engaged the conservation firm Syremont ( part of the Ferruzzi-Montedison group ) to assess the damage and how it can be stabilised . |
| 21 | Ideally , opioid dependent prisoners in custody should be stabilised with the right dose . |
| 22 | This might well be stabilised as the main course and result in the construction of a new delta segment , until the gradient advantage of the distributaries over it was nullified by the extent of the segment . |
| 23 | The liquid paints , it was decreed , must first be stabilised and turned into solids . |
| 24 | Carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) emmission levels are to be stabilised by 1994 , and reduced by three to four per cent by 2000 . |
| 25 | This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction . |
| 26 | For more on how these roles can be blended into a successful group , see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 . |
| 27 | This may take several weeks , depending on the volume of wine to be blended . |
| 28 | Here your lines should be fine , light and crisp and areas of colour must be blended carefully for a smooth result . |
| 29 | A total of 500 tonnes of HEU will be blended into 15,000 tonnes of fuel , which makes the deal worth $12 billion . |
| 30 | He did n't want to usurp any announcement by SCO ( see page one ) and was still talking in terms of how SCO might gracefully go to SVR4 and whether the companies ' two technologies might be blended . |