Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 3 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 4 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 5 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 8 | I am plunged back into robust adventures with my sturdy sea-horse . |
| 9 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 10 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 11 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 12 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 13 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 14 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps . |
| 17 | In order to cover this range of variation , the figures in table 3.13 are broken down into mandibular incisor digestion ( columns 13 ) , maxillary incisor digestion ( columns 4–6 ) , isolated incisor digestion ( columns 7–10 ) , and all these combined in columns 11 to 13 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 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 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 23 | The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage . |
| 24 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 25 | Some of the functionality that lets it be sold for over $10,000 has been stripped out like technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages over 11 x 17 . |
| 26 | Many cognitive processes are carried through without conscious awareness . |
| 27 | If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer . |
| 28 | appropriate safety and environmental analyses are carried out at defined stages of exploration , development and production ; |
| 29 | Reactions are carried out at high pressure and temperature and the processes involve large scale filtration , drying , milling and packing . |
| 30 | The four major subsystems are carried out at different locations , by different personnel , and therefore formed ‘ natural ’ boundaries . |