Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 2 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 3 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 4 | Over the years the original anti-Common Marketeers have been joined by several other groups . |
| 5 | If you are dismissed for some other reason unconnected with redundancy , you will have to consider whether the circumstances justify an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 6 | Non-basic beliefs are justified in terms of the basic and the basic are justified in some other way ; the asymmetry lies in the fact that justification is all one way , from non-basic to basic . |
| 7 | As soon as the operation has been performed and while they are still bleeding , the young warriors are placed on this mukula log . |
| 8 | It is characteristic of the metabolism of a cell that the relative amounts of the different substances remain roughly constant , and that if these proportions are altered by some outside disturbance , they tend to return to their initial values when the disturbance is removed . |
| 9 | In parallel with civilianisation of the police , will my hon. Friend ensure that instructions are given to all chief constables to increase further the designation of special constables and to increase the special constabulary , which would lead to more bobbies on the beat ? |
| 10 | Figures are given for each local authority , showing numbers and proportions of residents aged under 65 , and 65+ , supported in each type of accommodation . |
| 11 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 12 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 13 | The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing , as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon . |
| 14 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 15 | The notion of fact is apt to cause difficulties only if facts are treated as some special species of existences . |
| 16 | Squig Hoppers are treated like any other cavalry when hit by missile fire . |
| 17 | For tax purposes , zeros are treated like any other share with capital gains after the annual exemption and indexation relief for inflation are taken into account . |
| 18 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 19 | Iran has always been inhabited by many different people or tribes . |
| 20 | The major breed societies and their representatives are listed in many good books and in publications like the Horse and Hound Diary . |
| 21 | This information has proved invaluable and could not have been gathered in any other way . |
| 22 | Right from the introduction of the smoking habit to Europe , there have been doubts about the effect on health ; only since the 1920s has evidence been gathered in any purposeful way . |
| 23 | This is possible because the ability of even very young children to engage in reflective thought has now been recognized in many educational circles ( see Chapters 5 and 7 for discussion of this ) . |
| 24 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 25 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 26 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 27 | Instead , some examples will be given of the type of claims that have been made in the courts of the United Kingdom , Australia , and the United States , and of the responses that have been favoured by these domestic courts . |
| 28 | In the late fourth century Bagadates and Ariaramnes , two more , obvious , Persians , are honoured at another Karian sanctuary , Amyzon ( J. and L. Robert , 1983 , Amyzon , i. p. 97 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Sheffield ’ type parking stands have been placed at several public cycle parking places in central Edinburgh marked overleaf by . |
| 30 | Under the Belfast Urban Area Plan strict restrictions have been placed on any further office development outside the city centre . |