Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’
2 Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ?
3 Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ?
4 Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 .
5 The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic
6 The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic
7 But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin .
8 The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults .
9 Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas .
10 It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls .
11 The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina .
12 The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse .
13 Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section .
14 A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms .
15 A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery .
16 Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist .
17 Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired .
18 She has been excavated out of the mud that preserved her in La Plata , they say , and virtually rebuilt .
19 A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line .
20 A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line .
21 In orthodox psychoanalysis , after the repressions of pre-genital and genital sexuality had been pointed out to the analysand , the choice was then either to sublimate these impulses or to reject them rationally .
22 If this legal consequence had been pointed out to the bank at the time , they might have said that that was not what they intended , but that is a factor common probably to all cases in which a release is given to one of two joint debtors .
23 It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them .
24 That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house .
25 Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological .
26 So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left .
27 It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious .
28 Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds .
29 Although they have been pencilled in for the Cymru Alliance next season , Llani have faint hopes of winning a reprieve if a present club pulls out of the Konica League .
30 Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend .
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