Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The PAN disputed the results after being awarded only three of the 20 seats in the Sinaloa Chamber of Deputies , and accused electoral officials of failing to recognize the victory of its candidate for mayor in Mazatlán .
2 The small living-room she took him into was made even smaller by the amount of stuff she had in there .
3 The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms .
4 All our work has to be prepared so much in advance , because then all the sets have to be constructed , all the statistics worked out , budgets have to be agreed and so on .
5 This hypothesis is consistent with two observations : firstly , the VSG promoter region is smaller than that of the procyclin/PARP promoter ( 22 , 36-38 ) ; secondly , the procyclin/PARP promoter appears to be positioned just downstream of a region transcribed by a different RNA polymerase , which terminates in close proximity to the procyclin/PARP promoter ( 33 , 39 , 40 ) .
6 oh he 's , he seems to be grown up all of a sudden
7 It does n't seem to be getting very warm in here to me .
8 In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue .
9 Of course , these generations had , at all costs , to be kept racially clean through the exclusion of non-Aryan blood .
10 As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained .
11 He agreed to hand over ‘ the castles , holds and fortresses of Scotland to the cardinal and the said earls , to cause them to be kept by such as they thought meet ’ .
12 We are likely to be seeing even more of him on television .
13 ‘ Must be one hell of a neighbour for you to be acting so twitchy about her . ’
14 Later , while Rachel was checking supplies , Nina happened to mention that the new MO seemed to be proving more popular with the staff than the previous one had been , then added , ‘ Just as long as they do n't think he 's a soft touch and that they can come in here with a finger ache and think he 'll send them home . ’
15 I 'm not supposed to be eating very much for lunch so .
16 In the Barlow Clowes case Millett J agreed , and added ‘ that the proper and efficient functioning of the process of compulsory liquidation would be jeopardised if transcripts of the formal interviews of witnesses carried out by liquidators were to be made generally available to defendants to criminal proceedings ’ .
17 The contractor is often in a difficult position , when payments to the nominated sub-contractor are only due to be made immediately prior to the next valuation , and insufficient time remains for receipts to be obtained .
18 Grammar is the set of rules which determine the way in which units such as words and phrases can be combined in a language and the kind of information which has to be made regularly explicit in utterances .
19 Its wide-ranging format allowed children 's costume drama , previously thought the sole preserve of the Classic Serials Division , to be made more appealing by means of a link to the space age .
20 Assumptions and expectations which lie behind an inter-agency approach require to be made more explicit in order that agencies , and individuals within agencies , are absolutely clear about where they stand , not only in relation to the paramount concern of protecting the child , but also in relation to each other .
21 Mr Hand adds : ‘ Although we have goods and services available here , they need to be made more accessible to the home shopper .
22 Clients will have to be made more aware of what information is needed and why certain tax computations decisions have been taken .
23 With the emphasis on whole school health , all staff/school workers will have to be made more aware of healthy living .
24 Further , that integration is to be made more seamless over the coming year when IBM will begin merging OS/2 and AIX , enabling them to use the same database and share application development tools .
25 Although they have always had responsibility for trainees , this is to be made more formal within the framework of the basic training common core .
26 Before very long , however , it was to be made abundantly clear to her that legal equality was not enough ; the ability to exert force was the key not merely to ascendancy , but also to genuine equality .
27 This is in contrast to that information which can be challenged and questioned which has to be made publicly available in support of quality assurance .
28 Data for liquid , solid and gaseous wastes from sites is to be made publicly available in summary form .
29 Criticisms of the same kind were also to be made by such as Philippe de Mézières , whose long reflective work on the state of French society , the Songe du vieil pèlerin , was written towards the end of the fourteenth century .
30 At present it is smothered with yellow varnish , and while conservation due to begin at the Rijksmuseum in the Spring will certainly improve it , it remains to be seen how much of the picture can be recovered , and to see if the Rijksmuseum 's money was well spent .
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