Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 2 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 3 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 4 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 5 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 6 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 7 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 8 | Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives . |
| 9 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 10 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 11 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 12 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 13 | I am plunged back into robust adventures with my sturdy sea-horse . |
| 14 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 15 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 16 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 17 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 18 | Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps . |
| 19 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 20 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 21 | Scientists at Boston University , using remote sensing techniques , have found that the desert pavement of Kuwait , southern Iraq and Saudi Arabia has been broken up over large areas by the massed movement of vehicles during the war . |
| 22 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 23 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 24 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 25 | Neither Galley nor his friends have ever been caught up in any incidents in Lothian Road . |
| 26 | appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ; |
| 27 | The four major subsystems are carried out at different locations , by different personnel , and therefore formed ‘ natural ’ boundaries . |
| 28 | Cultivations are carried out for three reasons : to improve the soil crumb structure and so create an ideal seed-bed for the crop ; to uproot and kill weeds ; and to bury turf or crop residues where they will rot down and not compete with the ensuing crop . |
| 29 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 30 | Various investigations are carried out on surgical wards . |