Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 2 | The information had been furnished by the French underground , and , as the crews had been told , there was no way of knowing if the information was correct . |
| 3 | These expressions have been italicized in the diagram above . |
| 4 | The Police Complaints Authority may direct that disciplinary charges are heard by a tribunal rather than by a chief officer sitting alone . |
| 5 | For trousers , socks and shoes , the garments are placed on a stool slightly to the side of the patient . |
| 6 | The written test success rates are given in the table below . |
| 7 | The populations of two towns A and B and the number of persons who die in them in a certain year are given in the table below . |
| 8 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 9 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 10 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 11 | Vulnerable currencies — and denominations of note — are listed in the table below . |
| 12 | Ziemian says there is more to come ; only the portion that requires new laws enacted by Congress has been leaked to the public so far . |
| 13 | Cope reckons that the album of B-sides will emerge one day but , with a ‘ Best Of … ’ currently on sale , the idea has been placed on the back-burner indefinitely . |
| 14 | His splendidly preserved antique desk had been placed like a barrier solidly across the room about two thirds of the way up . |
| 15 | We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again . |
| 16 | It is a rare but recognised phenomenon that headaches as a result of sexual intercourse might indicate his condition which could have been treated by an operation regularly performed by neurosurgeons . ’ |
| 17 | Pegs are limited on the day so in order to guarantee to fish this popular event please confirm attendance with Dave Gunson on Ipswich 716530 . |
| 18 | IN the Dales , history and legend are welded into the landscape as firmly as the rocks beneath . |
| 19 | These have been calculated by a technique misleadingly known as ‘ programme budgeting ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Been hanging round the theatre again , darling ? |
| 21 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 22 | Many things that a decade ago would have been regarded as the province exclusively of the statutory sector now fall into the voluntary sector . |
| 23 | Anthony Caro 's ‘ Tower of Discovery ’ has already been erected in a plaza close to the entrance to Expo 's site . |
| 24 | Whereas this job , although it centres around the similar sort of thing , has become much more diverse particularly in the last three or four years with our involvement with deposit of poisonous waste and site licensing … ; planning applications are referred to a lot more now than when I first started . |
| 25 | In reality heavy drinking is far more pervasive than is commonly realized and most drugs which are consumed to excess are prescribed by a GP rather than bought illegally . |
| 26 | However , Mr Graham said the secretaries of state for energy and the environment would be fully aware of how many objections had been received concerning the scheme more than 7,000 . |
| 27 | Lawyers ' appeals to fairness and justice do not necessarily mean that economic indicators such as efficiency are banished from the debate altogether ; rather , economic and noneconomic factors must both be taken into account . |
| 28 | Bushes sagged loosely beneath it ; and the masonry at the crown of the arch showed paler than on either curve , as though it had been exposed to the air longer , perhaps concealed by the sheltering broom . |
| 29 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 30 | Dick 's fighter was not without its problems , the primary one being that the fuselage had been modified with a hacksaw so that there would be room to put a second seat in the airframe . |