Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 2 | . with a little help from her new friends who are proving very protective towards the brave youngster . |
| 3 | Panchromatic and false-colour infrared images , registered to the British National Grid , are proving very effective for the interpretation of both regional structures and geomorphology ( see frontispiece ) . |
| 4 | For a file of this size , no value has been altered materially due to the simplification of using Poisson values . |
| 5 | The foods which are consumed very much in the way they were grown — many of the fibre-rich foods — are rarely potentially fattening . |
| 6 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the things you learn in an exercise like that is that the odds are stacked very much against the aggressor . |
| 8 | The fact that we are situated right next to the park does not escape our notice and we have in fact had people in from the park who sleep rough there . |
| 9 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |
| 10 | They admit that some people are eating too much of the chemical plasticiser ( DEHA ) found in PVC clingfilm . |
| 11 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 12 | THE people at the Museum of the Moving Image are becoming rather excited about a new exhibit being installed on Monday Dec 11 : a full organza dress , lined with peach silk crepe de chine , and decorated with ivory re-embroidered lace , crystal beading , peach silk chiffon and some hand-dyed rosettes . |
| 13 | Particularly strong growth was achieved by the six weekly direct European container services which are becoming increasingly important to the Province in the lead up to 1992 and the implementation of the Single European Market . |
| 14 | Termites are becoming increasingly important to the whole world . |
| 15 | The final two factors that we wish to consider here seem to have more influence in the USA , although there are signs that they are becoming increasingly important in the UK . |
| 16 | The two farms have been unable to sell milk for nearly four weeks , and farmers ' leaders are becoming increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of progress in solving the mystery . |
| 17 | FINANCIAL consultants are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of North Star Ventures , an Isle of Man company collecting thousands of pounds in advance fees for cheap loans , a number of which have so far failed to turn up . |
| 18 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who has not been seen since she walked out of Broadgreen Hospital , Liverpool , two weeks ago . |
| 19 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who walked out of a hospital two weeks ago and has not been seen since . |
| 20 | First tonight , Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a fifteen year old Bathgate girl . |
| 21 | Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of fifteen year old Bathgate girl Lorna Dempsey . |
| 22 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a man who has been missing from Gartloch Hospital in Glasgow for six days . |
| 23 | In comparison there has been very little work on the psychology of masculinity and the nature of male identity , although both men ( and women ) are becoming increasingly interested in the forms masculinity might assume in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 24 | At present , the FDA has no firm criteria for judging genetically-altered foods , which are becoming increasingly common in the US . |
| 25 | Many people today are becoming increasingly conscious of the environmental factors of consumerism and are limiting their purchases to those which will not damage the environment . |
| 26 | Medical researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the health and weight-control benefits of dietary fibre in general — but the indications are that different forms of fibre may perform different beneficial functions . |
| 27 | People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take more care of our surroundings , to use our natural resources more economically and to improve the quality of life . |
| 28 | But pumpkins are becoming increasingly popular as a vegetable too . |
| 29 | And some are becoming too much of a good thing . |
| 30 | But I do think that we are becoming more involved in the Livesey affair than our legitimate interest justifies . |