Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling broadly , and displaying the naughty element of her nature , which had been hidden previously behind the candy-coated exterior , she teased reporters . |
| 2 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 3 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 4 | The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries . |
| 5 | What aims , objectives , hopes , wishes and intentions are gathered together under the broad heading of resource-based learning ? |
| 6 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 7 | The dishwasher has been tucked away in the central island and is opposite the main sink , so dishes can be quickly rinsed and put out of sight . |
| 8 | So work has started to spread the ‘ learning difficulties ’ modules throughout the catalogue to ensure that they are placed firmly in the appropriate cognate group . |
| 9 | FOUR different countries are hidden away in the damp jungles of Panama . |
| 10 | Calculations for the sampling errors of some variables have been published in the individual WFS country reports , but the WFS data are given usually without the relevant confidence intervals . |
| 11 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 12 | Welcome back:The Princess of Wales will visit two groups for people with HIV and Aids tomorrow , drawing national attention to way sufferers are treated here in the Central region . |
| 13 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 14 | The subsurface form of the thrust zone has now been traced eastwards to the northern Rhenish Massif of Germany where it was described by Meissner , Bartelsen , and Murawski ( 1981 ) as a strong reflector 3.4 km deep , dipping slightly to the south-southeast ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 15 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 16 | Previous study of colonic pressures in paediatric patients has been limited mainly to the rectosigmoid area , because of relative inaccessibility of the proximal colon . |
| 17 | An earlier attempt had been withdrawn immediately after the 19 October 1987 Wall Street crash . |
| 18 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 19 | It was followed by a lunch party at a local restaurant where the tables had been placed outside in the cobbled square . |
| 20 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 21 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 22 | Their qualifications are validated either by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education ( BACIFHE ) or by one of the independent professional bodies such as the National Council for Drama Training or the Council for Dance Education , or are the college 's own non-validated certificates or diplomas . |
| 23 | I am sure that my hon. Friend is right , in that it makes sense to believe that if young people from both sides of the community are taught together in the same classrooms , they will value equally both traditions and will be more likely than some others to find common ground in later life . |
| 24 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 25 | These two approaches are examined separately in the following Sections . |
| 26 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 27 | The techniques referred to in the revised manual appear to have been developed particularly after the inner-city riots of 1981 . |
| 28 | The miracle accounts have been developed both by the early Church and the Evangelists to say something important about Jesus . |
| 29 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 30 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |