Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 2 | If the smallest doses are given then even if the remedy is inappropriate the harm done is insignificant and the appropriate remedy quickly puts the case in order . |
| 3 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 4 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 5 | If , however , the studies are pursued more widely and the research becomes deeper , the need for ready-to-hand volumes and essays will increase geometrically . |
| 6 | Preference shares usually carry a right to fixed dividends , but if on any dividend payment date Newco has insufficient distributable profits to meet these , they are rolled forward so that the shares may accrue a right to a premium , representing rolled-up dividends , payable on redemption . |
| 7 | The fringes of the carpet had been teased out so that the individual strands could be seen . |
| 8 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 9 | As the repair had been carried out negligently and the plaintiff was a consumer , the action succeeded . |
| 10 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 11 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 12 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 13 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 14 | In the opposite case the transistors 12 and are turned on so that the current direction in the phase winding is reversed . |
| 15 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 16 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 17 | It has recently been argued very convincingly that the Cenomanian transgression can be blamed On a pulse of rapid ocean-floor spreading with the expansion of the mid-ocean ridges and consequent displacement of water . |
| 18 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 19 | ‘ Few principles of statutory interpretation are applied as frequently as the presumption against alterations in the common law . |
| 20 | The buildings would once have been the stables to the bigger houses out on the street , but now the bigger houses would all have been subdivided long ago and the stables leased off and converted . |
| 21 | Assemble edits are made much easier if the camera-originals are all shot on one cassette . |
| 22 | Plainly the clause was not on this occasion incorporated by virtue of the sold note , which had been handed over only after the bargain was struck . |
| 23 | Have they been dusted off now that the war is over ? |
| 24 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 25 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 26 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 27 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 28 | He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States . |
| 29 | The girl 's body had been laid out just as the others , and it had been the work of a moment to discover the tiny stab wound under the soft left breast . |
| 30 | For the last century the Tay has been known not only as the largest , but also arguably as the best salmon river in Britain . |