Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 2 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 3 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 4 | The Nuclear Waste Executive NAREX are to carry out tests at Sellafield and to select the best site to build a dump for nuclear waste . |
| 5 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 6 | Many are speeding up investment in technology to make their water gathering facilities more efficient . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been bashing out plans for care management and for better discharge procedures , and on paper we can offer community care very well , ’ said Jim Walker , acting director of Bassetlaw trust 's mental health services . |
| 8 | Any debate will persuade them they 're whipping up interest in fiction . |
| 9 | Computer printers everywhere are turning out miles of paper , but until recently the right quality of environment-friendly could n't be made . |
| 10 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of them are holding up signs with names on them . ’ |
| 12 | Since the beginning of March , we have been running down production at Warwick . |
| 13 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 14 | SUPERMARKET chains are ripping off customers by packaging joints of beef with extra fat . |
| 15 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 16 | The redraft and the original are set out side by side so that typography and language may be compared . |
| 17 | Since the 1970s it had been fending off pressure from Scandinavia . |
| 18 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 19 | He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen . |
| 20 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
| 21 | Because of these complexities , friendships with the Willses tend to be built up step by step and to become all the more valued because their qualities are seldom revealed all at one time . |
| 22 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |
| 23 | For instance , sugar came in huge blocks , so that before weighing it out , sufficient must be chipped off with a knife ; and black treacle must be ladled out spoonful by spoonful into the customer 's jar . |
| 24 | The resolution authorising the purchase will not be effective if the shareholder proposed to be bought out votes in respect of the resolution and the resolution would not have been passed if he had not done so ( s164(5) ) . |
| 25 | DANI has also erected safety signs at strategic points and rangers from the Lagan Valley Regional Park will be giving out leaflets to cyclists . |
| 26 | The bird will be brought on stage by Arthur Johnson , marketing editor of the Echo , and Brian Hall , PR Executive of Liverpool FC . |
| 27 | In this way , every corner of our life is able to be brought in worship to God . |
| 28 | We are also establishing a regional presence in the Middle East and Graham Hillier is soon to be taking up residence in Dubai to promote our activities in this region . |
| 29 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 30 | Furthermore , as the French kings developed and extended their legal powers they increasingly intervened in the affairs of the duchy , and cases arising in the duchy might be taken on appeal to Paris , thus undermining the authority of the duke . |