Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have been dismissed you may be falling behind with mortgage payments , rent or other debts . |
| 2 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 3 | If these intuitions are justified it follows that some exhaustive analyses of the concepts of excuse misconceive the social function and thereby distort the nature and operation of the criminal law . |
| 4 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 5 | It suggests at once beauty and brutality for some are born with black eyes and some are given them . |
| 6 | But whatever name they are given they make fascinating aquarium inhabitants . |
| 7 | When dates for particular artefact-types are given it is rarely made clear whether that date is one of manufacture of the artefacts , its period of use or the context in which it was found . |
| 8 | This difference distinguishes causal circumstances and their effects from the other instances of necessary connection , the nomic correlates. ( 1.5 ) All necessary connections are open to forms of mathematical expression , and typically are given it in science . |
| 9 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 10 | Another possible version of foundationalism holds that there are some beliefs which are given us as ‘ data ’ , and which are fully justified unless something arises to defeat their justification ( cf. the use of defeasibility in 2.3 ) . |
| 11 | Mr Macmillan echoed the same thinking about the H-bomb : ‘ When the tests are completed we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia … |
| 12 | The Bypass is divided into five sections , namely : and when all sections are completed it will extend from the Glasgow/Edinburgh Road ( A8 ) in the west , to the Musselburgh Bypass in the east , providing a continuous route around the city . |
| 13 | if I had n't of been blinded he was out the door |
| 14 | Once geodesic dome tents are erected they can be moved in one piece |
| 15 | But however often these theories have been mooted they have never been adhered to for long . |
| 16 | Going out to the outlying part of town in which the creche had been situated you now travelled along a metalled road . |
| 17 | She laughed at the thought of his face next morning when he realised he 'd been outwitted it was n't hard to do . |
| 18 | Er they had them all back like when the pits was nationalized , all these people who 'd been sacked you know got back on . |
| 19 | Also once a vaccination programme has been undertaken it must be continued annually for each calf crop . |
| 20 | Once the tagged text has been placed it is possible to alter the tag 's definition in the stylesheet and have all the occurrences of that tag change . |
| 21 | They might have been treated them , to come up earlier . |
| 22 | If timbers have not already been treated you must call in a wood treatment specialist for a report . |
| 23 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 24 | Ward says when the forms are revised they will also include more questions about sexual abuse and the therapeutic work being undertaken . |
| 25 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 26 | After we are registered we go into assembly and listen to one of the teachers or a guest speaking for ten minutes . |
| 27 | You may find that Social Services will put your name on their vacancy list , and once you are registered you can advertise . |
| 28 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 29 | Yet if the dances of Vera and Natalia in A Month in the Country and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet are examined it will be discovered how the technical content is so designed that the steps , poses and gestures show how changing circumstances are affecting the individuals . |
| 30 | When Chadwick 's comments on the trade are examined it becomes abundantly clear why hire companies such as Robert Green 's were required : ‘ The number of persons whose sole business is that of undertaker , whose names are enumerated in the post-office directory for the year 1843 for the metropolis , is 275 . |