Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first step , joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river , one of the main polluters of the Black Sea . |
| 2 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 3 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 4 | Both InsP 3 and DAG have been implicated in setting up the dorso-ventral axis in Xenopus embryos . |
| 5 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 6 | Has a corrosion-inhibitor been added after cleaning out the system ? |
| 7 | Sister Imelda , the only nun in the convent who was good with the needle , had been in her sick bed so a very poor job had been done on taking up the hem . |
| 8 | Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school . |
| 9 | And that is what we 're talking about , we 're talking about taking out the two or three hundred really active people , the control and the command structure of the I R A and of the other terrorist organizations and putting them in . |
| 10 | two amps or erm five years if you 're talking about charging up a capacitor or something . |
| 11 | We 're thinking of saving up a deposit for a little house . ’ |
| 12 | This leaflet answers some of the most common questions people ask when they 're thinking of taking out a policy : |
| 13 | Because if you 're thinking of nipping back a century or two and uncreating this interesting aberration of yours , I think I 'd rather be somewhere else at the moment of uncreation , if it 's all the same to you . ’ |
| 14 | So when you 're setting about setting up an evaluation project you consider it very important to get the co-operation of the teachers and staff involved . |
| 15 | So we have and erm we 're gon na open up the top bar , top bar and ripping up the carpet |
| 16 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 17 | ‘ I du n no 'ow we 're gon na pay off the bank if there is a strike , ’ Fred said with concern in his voice . |
| 18 | So you 're gon na write up the list ? |
| 19 | Now we 're gon na fill in the top half of the board , are n't we ? |
| 20 | A journalist who hid in a jail for fifteen hours to expose its lack of security has been accused of setting up a media stunt . |
| 21 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 22 | Mendoza had been accused of covering up the 1985 kidnapping and murder , allegedly by a police intelligence unit , of three members of the Chilean Communist party [ for April 1992 arrest of Mendoza see pp. 38860-61 ] . |
| 23 | A second hospital has been accused of mixing up a baby 's name tag , making the mother fear she had the wrong child . |
| 24 | F. Many skilled workmen and parts are needed in fitting out a ship , particularly a passenger liner . |
| 25 | Experiments have shown that the most flawless surfaces are produced by carrying out the final lapping stages on a lead lap . |
| 26 | Er right Mary Whitehouse to come we 'll be talking about sex and the Buddha of Suburbia and er whatever else sort of takes her fancy and we are going to liven up the traffic I think at er round about one twenty five and find out what 's happening there . |
| 27 | The agreement became possible when Spain lifted its veto after agreement had been reached on setting up a fund to help the Community 's poorer members to pay for environmental protection measures . |
| 28 | Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed . |
| 29 | Finally , RACs should be asked to consider what the paper inelegantly described as ‘ resource availability and future coordination in respect of training for education management ’ , and consideration should be given to setting up a national advisory and consultative group . |
| 30 | Many straight edges can be joined by picking up the edges , right sides together , on to the needlebed . |