Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 2 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 3 | Positivists , of all varieties , have consequently been caught up in an endless quest for a universal , objective but non-legal concept of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 4 | Here again they state that the form is for use where works are carried out for an agreed lump sum and where an architect or supervising officer has been appointed on behalf of the employer . |
| 5 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 6 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 8 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 9 | The major part of the nominee 's work must have been carried out in an academic institution in the UK or Republic of Ireland and the person must currently work in such an institution . |
| 10 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 11 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 12 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 13 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 14 | To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment . |
| 15 | Large British forces had been tied up in an expensive operation to which there seemed to be no obvious military solution other than counter-guerrilla operations in Sabah and Sarawak and the deployment of large forces to discourage further escalation of the conflict . |
| 16 | In the earlier work the circular , arching and swinging elements are played off against an angular , somewhat disjointed pictorial armature . |
| 17 | a wide variety of travel texts and periodicals to supplement sets of specialist textbooks are provided along with an adequate supply of up to date technical directories , guides and brochures to support practical exercises and assignments . |
| 18 | Without Anna for her mother she would have been brought up like an Italian girl of the time , like her aunts . |
| 19 | In her reactionary way — for Lili had been brought up by an independent , feminist mother — she thought it all right for men to carry suitcases but not bags of washing . |
| 20 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 21 | Savognia had been brought up in an anglicised fashion . |
| 22 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 23 | Today will be the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 24 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
| 25 | These are visible by phase-contrast and polarization microscopy and occur in many Pterygote insects ; such layers are not found in Apterygotes and are laid down with an irregular rhythm in the Coleoptera . |
| 26 | In common with many other low-pay industries the minimum standards of pay and conditions are laid down by an industrial council , the Agricultural Wages Board . |
| 27 | The flight controls and other options are laid out in an unusual way , not following the normal conventions and taking some time to learn . |
| 28 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 29 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 30 | Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage . |