Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WEST : New voices and opinions will be vying to be heard in Westminster now the Conservatives ' grip on the region has been eased slightly , especially by the defeat of the Tory chairman , Mr Patten , in Bath , writes Paul Stokes . |
| 2 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 3 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
| 4 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 5 | Well , we recognized that two three years ago but it has n't been filled yet |
| 6 | By 1914 the exchanges were filling 3,000 vacancies a day , but these would perhaps have been filled even in their absence . |
| 7 | Then it had been filled again , but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land . |
| 8 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
| 9 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 10 | The big cup with the chipped handle had been filled almost to its brim with milky cocoa . |
| 11 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 12 | In addition , if you are delayed more than 12 hours and you have chosen to take the recommended Holiday Insurance Policy that Club 18–20 has arranged with Eagle Star , you have the right to cancel and receive a refund , or , at your preference , continue on your holiday and receive compensation of up to £65 per person . |
| 13 | Smiling broadly , and displaying the naughty element of her nature , which had been hidden previously behind the candy-coated exterior , she teased reporters . |
| 14 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 15 | The crossbow bolts and the arbalest have been hidden away . |
| 16 | You can even scan for viruses that would normally be missed by a standard scanner because it would have been hidden away in an archive file . |
| 17 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 18 | These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’ |
| 19 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 20 | ‘ Something small , which might have been hidden almost anywhere . |
| 21 | Some quality which had previously been hidden now shone through them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Too much had been hidden too long . |
| 24 | He swept off his black fur cap and his heavy cloak , revealing the scarlet velvet and golden armour which had been hidden beneath . |
| 25 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 26 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 27 | In Litster , even though the sale was by a receiver , it was clear that the employees had been dismissed immediately prior to completing the sale of a business solely to avoid the effect of the Transfer Regulations on the sale . |
| 28 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
| 29 | The mines had suffered disruption since July and 220 workers had been dismissed earlier for taking industrial action , and according to the managing director at least two weeks ' production had been lost . |
| 30 | Moreover , the fundamental social structures and traditional land-management practices of many indigenous populations have often been dismissed as more or less irrelevant to modern-day needs . |