Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 2 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 3 | Stage I sleep is defined in terms of the EEG and EOG records as consisting of a low voltage EEG with some slow activity , and occasional vertex sharp waves , and slow rolling eye movements ( see example . ) |
| 4 | Furthermore , almost all of the residential care they supply is provided under contract to local authority social services departments . |
| 5 | All calls cost are charged at 36p per minute ( cheap rate ) and 48p ( at all other times ) |
| 6 | When the systems manger is stressed by complaints about the slowing access times on the system he may send out warning messages and then complete a tape dump of all documents last accessed before a certain date . |
| 7 | Recall was aided by use of a pictorial daily health diary , on which mothers were taught to record that the child was healthy or to mark the occurrence of diarrhoea , cough , or any other illness . |
| 8 | Recall was scored in terms of the number of ideas expressed in the passage which a subject was able to remember . |
| 9 | If students can argue for the project 's viability , through research and costings , then finance is released for production by a commercial printer and the students follow through their marketing plan in order to recoup the investment . |
| 10 | Miller ( 1951 ) states that " the information we convey is coded into patterns of words . |
| 11 | Now they import flax , mainly from Scandinavia , and much of the cloth they weave is made from mixtures of flax or cotton and artificial fibres such as nylon , Terylene and Acrilan . |
| 12 | The most important fund was the theoric , from which pay was given for attendance at festivals . |
| 13 | The case of Martin Smid — the student whom thousands believe was beaten to death by the riot police just down the road last Friday — was raised . |
| 14 | People who want to keep their hard-won independence and who fear being betrayed into union with Europe by treacherous politicians . |
| 15 | It is possible to consider a situation where most franchises remain being run by groups of B R managers and a few franchises are run by private sector companies . |
| 16 | It was obviously not made clear to you that the so called Collateral Agreement should have been signed ‘ Under Seal ’ , by which I presume is meant in front of a Notary Public . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 18 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 19 | A family who 've been saved from eviction by an anonymous donor say it 's the best Christmas present they could have hoped for . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been pestered by reporters for days , and it really is getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been hooked on crisps for years . |
| 22 | There 's an in er a strong tendency to call the the testimony of people who 've been abused into question in this way . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 24 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 25 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 26 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 28 | When you 're dealing with people who may want to buy retirement homes , er how do you describe them ? , they 've been described by Mr as the punters you see , how 'd you , what do you call them ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face . |
| 30 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |