Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides . |
| 2 | Had the kidnappers been tracked too clumsily and killed the boy as they fled ? |
| 3 | It is vitally important that canister filters are packed fairly loosely and maintained correctly to ensure that the correct amount of water reached the pump impeller . |
| 4 | They are a rather different animal , as far as the sorts of applications are concerned , from single chip microcomputers — a single integrated circuit that has all the features , including the processor , of a computer that can be made very cheaply and embodied particularly in things like low cost domestic goods . |
| 5 | The skimmed milk was fed to pigs but the Rowlands eventually decided it could be used more profitably and began to make low-fat yogurt and cottage cheese . |
| 6 | The two sets of decisions can be understood more easily if thought of in terms of , firstly , assessing need and , secondly , setting priorities . |
| 7 | These techniques allow the anisotropic parameters to be estimated more reliably and computed a hundred times as fast as previously . |
| 8 | She ordered the coffee della to be passed yet again and began to work . |
| 9 | If they are to be taken more seriously and tackled effectively in the future , there is much of practical value to be gleaned from the Australian experience . |
| 10 | But a spokesman said if any complaint was received it would be taken very seriously and investigated ; it would also be acted upon if found to have substance . |
| 11 | They had always been a task force in their own right and had a head start in this respect with their trained crews specialising in interceptions at sea and rummage duties , traditional skills which could now be deployed more swiftly and utilised more efficiently by use of new radio equipment and position finding navigational aids such as radar and Decca Navigators . |
| 12 | The ladies are monitored very carefully and scanned and sometimes they pick up cancer in another part of the body which |
| 13 | The baby had been taken away immediately and wired up in an incubator for three days . |
| 14 | They were made all right and used in even more subtle ways than I explained . |
| 15 | But there were probably a great many more who simply took advantage of too many of the free pints they were offered too often and slipped into alcoholism . |
| 16 | What he did n't tell us was that the boats were tied very loosely and had a disturbing tendency to drift apart as you were in the process of climbing from one to another . |
| 17 | Her eyes , of indeterminate colour , were set far apart and protruded slightly . |
| 18 | Anybody who scores more than 40 errors on that first drive is taken quietly aside and told to take the bus home . |
| 19 | In some patients ( e.g. Coltheart et al. , 1983 ) , only the first pattern is seen , so that the way a printed word is comprehended is via pronunciation ; in others ( e.g. Kay and Patterson , 1983 ) one does see examples where a word is read aloud wrongly but comprehended correctly . |
| 20 | Other authors were confronted with a much more puzzling radiological picture , especially in early stages of the disease : a nodular aspect or irregular narrowing of the oesophagus due to submucosal tumours was mentioned most often and interpreted as either peptic stricture , radiation stricture , or external compression . |