Example sentences of "be [verb] and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been conserved and in the main appear green . |
| 2 | Well we , we ca n't because the thing is the , the national decision has been made and within the final report to , to all the conferences this year . |
| 3 | Some commentators have gone further and pointed to the relatively high proportion of UK production which has been exported and to the high ratio of exports of GDP in international terms . |
| 4 | Yeah , they put it all in a computer and then all the words are analyzed and from the different accents and all that sort of , pronunciation . |
| 5 | This is in line with the tougher market conditions we are experiencing and like the hard hit retail sector , the contract and hospitality business ( in which Runcorn majors ) has also been squeezed . |
| 6 | I delivered it to my agent to be framed and for the final hanging in the boardroom . |
| 7 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 8 | In the former case D18 will be lit and in the latter case it will be extinguished . |
| 9 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 10 | The degree structure maintained at Edinburgh allows a student to leave decisions on the subjects to be followed and on the final degree to quite a late stage . |
| 11 | If the Emperor was to make any progress in pursuing the English alliance , it was essential that some way be found to produce a common enemy against whom a common front could be established and in the mid-19th century Britain 's only apparent enemy , that is the only one which seemed to threaten her interests , was the Russian Empire . |
| 12 | At higher speeds it is difficult to dissipate sufficient of the energy of motion of the Moon for it to be captured and at the same time yield an Earth-Moon system that resembles the one that actually exists . |
| 13 | In order to understand their significance and the ways in which money supply can be controlled , it is first necessary to look at the various types of account in which money can be held and at the various financial institutions involved . |
| 14 | And the Committee was satisfied both with the way the guidelines had been observed and with the resulting coverage . |
| 15 | One common reason is ignorance of the processes in which they are involved and of the potential consequences of their actions . |
| 16 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 17 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 18 | The upper storeys had not yet been floored and through the concrete joists and beams above the sky was visible . |
| 19 | Finally , all is prepared and as the second hand ticks over into 8.30 pm the command ‘ Run Tape ’ is given . |
| 20 | In 1515 , we find a cow being left to provide a light before the rood to burn from the second peal to matins , and till high mass is done and from the second peal to evensong till evensong be done for ever more . |
| 21 | On replay with a correcting network , the signal is normalised and at the same time , the signal to noise ratio is improved . |
| 22 | Arthur Andersen is downsizing and over the next two years will be replacing its Wang minicomputers with a PC-based system running Notes . |
| 23 | The advance bookings diary or chart is checked for the guest 's arrival date , a note is made in the diary that mail is awaiting and on the appropriate date it is placed in the letter rack . |
| 24 | Now the situation is changing and for the first time two excellent books have appeared on pain in children . |
| 25 | In all nasal consonants , the soft palate is lowered and at the same time the mouth passage is blocked at some point , so that all the air is pushed out of the nose . |
| 26 | To the right there were farm buildings which had been refurbished and through the open door of one of them he could glimpse open shelving displaying rows of pots . |
| 27 | For the second time since the 19th century the value of the try has been changed and for the second time this century the drop goal value has been altered . |
| 28 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 29 | In the former case the profits arose where the property was situated and in the latter case where the rights were exercisable . |
| 30 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |