Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [det] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have been filled with all the previous beatitudes of Christ now overflow in mercy to those around them . |
| 2 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 3 | During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia . |
| 4 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 5 | This has not been developed into such a standard technique but has been used to investigate both laminar and turbulent flows . |
| 6 | I say planned and agreed , because , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows , more than one public inquiry has taken place and the go-ahead has been given after all the proper formalities have been gone through . |
| 7 | Important loans have been trawled from all the major international collections . |
| 8 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 9 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 10 | Complete has now been listed by all the major supermarkets and sales have built steadily . |
| 11 | He ca n't have been so crap otherwise he would n't have been picked in such a brilliant side but the mistakes I 've seen were just appalling , and in the most important games e.g. the first Chelsea 70 Cup Final game when the ball went right under his body . |
| 12 | This is exemplified by Dritherm — the cavity wall insulation with the 100 year guarantee that 's been installed in half a million homes . |
| 13 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 14 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 15 | The knowledge explosion means what it implies ; the task of producing a scheme that would really satisfy all needs , and avoid the criticisms which had very rightly been levied at all the previous schemes , was enormous . |
| 16 | With the exception of the higher rate of SSP to which I have already referred , this has been applied to all the relevant main benefits rates — notably retirement pensions , war pensions , widows ' pensions , invalidity benefit , severe disablement allowance , the disability living allowance rates equivalent to the present mobility and attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , industrial injuries benefits , and the national insurance benefits for unemployment , sickness and maternity . |
| 17 | It is not often that two such good books are written within such a short space of each other . |
| 18 | I am particularly encouraged by the references to better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists , and to see that routes for them have been incorporated into all the major development sites where appropriate — and indeed given some prominence in the site maps . |
| 19 | Caringolat and the other tutors at Por Tanssie would surely have been stupefied by such a lewd spectacle . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 21 | so I followed her and of course , we 're going past all the blooming classrooms ! |
| 22 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 23 | We 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen , ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in the streamed situation . |
| 24 | Perhaps too many all-embracing laws are drafted in such a slipshod manner that police may think it gives them authority to frame any charge and judges are given the power to determine the law according to their own opinions . |
| 25 | has attached to it one or more Design Changes ( DCs ) which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 26 | has associated with it one or more DCs which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 27 | A Design Change state indicating that the modifications proposed in the DC have now been agreed by all the interested parties , and the individual agreements entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 28 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 29 | John Aubrey records how Thomas Hobbes , the philosopher , was ‘ put into a Woollen shroud ’ at his death in 1679 , arguing that had Hobbes received the £100 per annum pension granted by Charles II in 1660 — ‘ At the Restoration , Charles II awarded him a pension of £100 a year — which , however , His Majesty forgot to pay ’ — then he might not have been buried in such a common shift . |
| 30 | It was the home of the Red Arrows but has never been used for such a major excercise as the one this week . |