Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 3 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 4 | Instead of just inspecting records within the Input range you can define n output range so that all the records found as a result of the search are gathered together into a separate table . |
| 5 | Theses are assigned exclusively to a single category in all of the above lists . |
| 6 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 7 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 8 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 9 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 11 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 12 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 13 | Economic questions have been left largely to social policy analysts to look at , and much of their writing has been placed squarely within a radical framework often described by the term ‘ the political economy of ageing ’ . |
| 14 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 15 | On the village green is a stone block said to have been placed there by a local lord of short stature , to help him mount his horse . |
| 16 | Three species of arctic residents , Lapland longspurs , snow buntings and rock ptarmigan , are joined annually by a dozen species of long-distance migrants — red-throated divers ( loons ) Gavia stellata , arctic terns Sterna paradisaea , oldsquaw Clangula hyemalis , common and king eider Somateria mollissima and S . |
| 17 | letters which are joined together as a single unit of type such as oe and fi . |
| 18 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 19 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 20 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
| 21 | I have argued elsewhere that these ideological failures have been compounded firstly by a reductive conception of culture and secondly by a culturalist conception of race and ethnic identity ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 23 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 24 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 25 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 26 | Leaves which are small , round or elliptic , fleshy , glossy , bright green , tapering towards the base without leaf-stalks , are arranged opposite on a stiff , round , fleshy stem . |
| 27 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 28 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 29 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 30 | It is greatly helped by a pragmatic government who , as it showed over the Rainbow Warrior affair , is quite prepared openly to back its security services even when they have been caught red-handed in a straightforward act of overt terrorism . |