Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 3 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 4 | In the light of that report the local authority carried out what has been referred to as a radical re-examination of the position . |
| 5 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 6 | The position with regard to side letters ( setting out supplemental agreements ) is that they may not be binding as they probably will not have been referred to in the principal agreement . |
| 7 | The close relationship between criterion-referenced assessment and the curriculum has been referred to in the previous section . |
| 8 | Such parents know that it is something they have been socialised into by a segregated society , and that things could have been otherwise : that they ought to be otherwise ( It 's not fair … ’ ) . |
| 9 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 10 | These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively . |
| 11 | But these are official figures which do not include what are referred to as the hidden homeless — those sharing households and those living rough . |
| 12 | The aims of the legislation and the expectations of those responsible for it are referred to in the following passage : |
| 13 | Up to 6 display windows may be defined by the user on the Z88 ; they are referred to by a single ASCII character " 1 " to " 6 " . |
| 14 | Some languages quite openly exploit this belief : Janssen-Jurreit notes that in Konkani , a language of south India , there is a distinction between married women ( who are referred to by the feminine form ) and young or widowed women ( who get the neuter to mark their lesser status ) . |
| 15 | These are all the potential problems we are exposed to in the twentieth century . |
| 16 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 17 | The law has not been adhered to in the recent years , as it was in the past and every night when you 're out you usually see more than one cyclist driving without lights , often on the pavement . |
| 18 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 19 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 20 | Foundationers have a special place in the life of Heriot 's and are looked after by a senior member of Staff with responsibility for pastoral care . |
| 21 | The Children Act intended parental responsibility to be shared when children are looked after by a local authority , but practice is proving less than perfect as new dangers emerge for children who are ‘ accommodated ’ . |
| 22 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 23 | In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family . |
| 24 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 25 | Examination questions are unreal and unrelated to life , and are looked upon as an unwelcome imposition . |
| 26 | The General Assembly condemned the invasion and asserted the rights of the East Timorese people to self-determination , but the matter has not been voted upon in the General Assembly since 1982 . |
| 27 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 28 | It was much smaller than she 'd imagined , just a country house , she thought , which had been added to in a haphazard way over the centuries . |
| 29 | The standard set of Spectrum keys have been added to in an intelligent way too . |
| 30 | A DoH press release states that ‘ access to records will be free except when they have not been added to in the previous 40 days . |