Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Here your lines should be fine , light and crisp and areas of colour must be blended carefully for a smooth result . |
| 3 | A mixture of clay and graphite are used for these pencils which produces an extremely soft dense black mark which can be blended further with water . |
| 4 | Bolder colours need to be blended smoothly , as faults in application will always be more obvious . |
| 5 | Machines , computers , materials of all kinds , and labour all have to be blended together to enable the production system to carry out its operations in a cost-effective way . |
| 6 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 7 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 8 | In return for the high interest you earn , your money is tied up and can not be withdrawn easily if you need some of it in a hurry . |
| 9 | At the same time , where demand is low , services can be withdrawn easily , and this has been the most characteristic trend in recent years . |
| 10 | Since their savings were completely liquid ( ie , they could be withdrawn immediately from banks ) , they were equivalent to cash . |
| 11 | THE STIFF plastic sheet in police officers ' notebooks , said by some lawyers to be ‘ a manoeuvre ’ to make testing for note-doctoring impossible , is to be withdrawn immediately . |
| 12 | If you make two or more claims in any period of insurance , any no claim bonus you have earned will be withdrawn completely . |
| 13 | Hungary 's Prime Minister , Miklós Németh , told parliament on Jan. 23 that in recent conversations with his Soviet counterpart , Nikolai Ryzhkov , it had been agreed in principle that Soviet troops could be withdrawn completely from Hungary , and that negotiations on a timetable would begin shortly . |
| 14 | ‘ Train services between Darlington and Hartlepool have been drastically reduced and are expected to be withdrawn completely later this year . |
| 15 | Soviet forces were not , at least in the first instance , to be withdrawn unconditionally . |
| 16 | The voluntary bodies complained they would be forced to incur unreasonable costs preparing their case for Parliament if the bill was to be withdrawn yet again . |
| 17 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 18 | Supplies became so critical that by March 3rd several batteries of howitzers had to be withdrawn altogether . |
| 19 | It is highly desirable that from every product in regular production , samples be withdrawn periodically and put on long-term stability test . |
| 20 | In contrast , when he was forced to admit , in early June 1977 , that the trooPs concentrated in response to the UUAC general strike were to be withdrawn as soon as possible , he endeavoured to reassure the public with the remark , ‘ More is being done in the field of SAS-type activities than is realised and this will now be intensified . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , British forces will be withdrawn once the territorial integrity of the island has been restored . |
| 22 | Managers in Surrey sent letters to all their ambulance workers threatening to use outside contractors to carry out non-emergency work and refused to guarantee that they would be withdrawn once deployed . |
| 23 | A tranquillizer may help to reduce anxiety so that the person is better able to start tackling his problems , but the drug should only be used for a short time ( up to 2 weeks ) , and should be withdrawn once improvement in coping ability has begun to develop . |
| 24 | A pencil mark should be made on the pipe around the mouth of the fitting after the pipe has been pushed fully home so that the pipe can then be withdrawn about 10mm from the fitting on installation . |
| 25 | Since money is less likely to be withdrawn quickly from time accounts , banks may feel the need to hold less liquidity , and therefore may decide to increase credit , thus expanding the money supply . |
| 26 | A whole set of disagreements on trade , notably over North American free trade and the GATT , could be smoothed over under that rubric : to be open and unbelligerent on trade is not weak-minded , but is in America 's interests . |
| 27 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 28 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 29 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 30 | The main purpose of the costings for the latter years is to identify probable peaks and troughs in the overall programme , which can be smoothed out by phasing in major projects so as to avoid clashes . |