Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 3 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 4 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 5 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 6 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 7 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 8 | Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time . |
| 9 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 10 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 11 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 12 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 13 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 14 | Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption . |
| 15 | In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more . |
| 16 | Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor . |
| 17 | Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat . |
| 18 | Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient . |
| 19 | They dispense justice , settle land disputes , give orders to civil servants ( which are carried out with an alacrity unknown earlier ) . |
| 20 | While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase . |
| 21 | The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer . |
| 22 | This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered . |
| 23 | The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not . |
| 24 | NEW WAYS TO DIP INTO INFORMATION Document image processing can only fulfil vendors ' claims if the right analysis and preparation are carried out before a decision to buy is made |
| 25 | These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension . |
| 26 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 27 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 28 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 29 | Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution … others face prosecution . |
| 30 | If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit . |