Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 3 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 4 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 5 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 6 | The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot . |
| 7 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 9 | By now it was early afternoon and Rick ( who had been catching consistently on the corn ) and I decided we were getting peckish , so , being nominated ’ chef of the week ’ I had to sort out the dinner . |
| 10 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 11 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 12 | For appeals against sentences imposed by magistrates are heard not by the Court of Appeal , but by the Crown Court . |
| 13 | Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it . |
| 14 | The second band , with its very long progression of vibrational peaks , is assigned to both the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the π u level , while the third and fourth bands are assigned respectively to the quartet and doublet states formed by removal of an electron from the level ; both levels are expected to be strongly bonding , as suggested by the lower vibration frequencies of the ions . |
| 15 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 16 | The supply of all product to shops is in direct response to retailers ' orders , which are placed either with the distribution centre or with the company 's sales force on their monthly calls . |
| 17 | Marks are placed both in the text and in the margin . |
| 18 | The best example is creme caramel , where the dariole moulds are placed straight into the oven set at 85°C , and a perfect product results without any fear of honeycombing . |
| 19 | He did not believe that a long period of purdah was necessary , and the general rule that such a record could not be published until thirty years after the event was indeed ridiculous , since it has been honoured only in the breach . |
| 20 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 21 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 22 | Each word and its anticipated variations in pronunciation are given explicitly in the lexicon , as in the HWIM system , while the acoustic input to the lexical access process may be described in terms of broad- , mid- , or fine-class descriptions . |
| 23 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 24 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 25 | In this way , Gaussian , log-normal , sigmoidal , and sinewave data are treated just like the program 's other functions of X. Transformed equations , power-fit , exponential , hyperbolic , and others are also discussed in an appendix . |
| 26 | The Labour policy of ‘ ensuring that lesbianism and gayness are treated positively in the curriculum ’ was raised in such a way as to play on parents ' fears for the safety of their children . |
| 27 | And they are treated harshly by the form of the electoral system . |
| 28 | All the mail handled at Aberdeen carries the city 's postmark and the letter bombs could have been posted anywhere in the area . |
| 29 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |
| 30 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |