Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Eagle Star has been badly hit for the same reason ; their profits are down 170,000,000 to just 9,000,000 . |
| 2 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | The special methods of sensitivity analysis are only used in the former step so we shall concentrate on that . |
| 4 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 5 | Medved also examines values within television and popular music , which are largely controlled by the same giant corporations that run the film business . |
| 6 | In addition , senior executives are largely drawn from the same narrow background as company directors . |
| 7 | Coins are generally found in the same region as their mint , since the function of a mint was usually to supply that region with coinage . |
| 8 | When you 've done it you 're still left with the same vacuum inside you waiting to be filled . |
| 9 | But even if I did , we 're still left with the same question : What are we going to do about it ? |
| 10 | A volley consists of 4 separate bolts , but these are always fired towards the same target in the same way as a unit of archers or crossbowmen . |
| 11 | Those accusations are always made by the same people who have all but destroyed public support for the local authority concept because of their blindness to the requirements of good financial management within local authorities . |
| 12 | Parents turn up to see their own children doing something so attendance is bound to fall off if the major parts in the service are always taken by the same one or two children . |
| 13 | The same is time for visits to schools and for the school quiz , where Catholic schools are always paired on the same side as Protestant ones in order to facilitate , again momentarily , some intercommunal co-operation . |
| 14 | It rises in the Vaults and its fast flowing waters are further augmented by the many streams flowing from the eastern edge of the Grey Mountains . |
| 15 | In contrast , rugs produced in India , Pakistan , the Soviet Union , Afghanistan and the Balkans are often extremely difficult to distinguish from one another because they are usually based on the same range of traditional Persian , Turkoman or Caucasian designs ; often the only difference in their appearance is the fineness of the knotting and the skill with which the composition has been achieved . |
| 16 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
| 17 | In some parts of the country spur and snag can mean the same thing , and in others have quite different meanings — but they are still caused by the same thing : bad pruning . |
| 18 | Glass paperweights are still made in the same style today . |
| 19 | Changes in the marginal distribution of the response variable will always produce changes in differences in proportions , even if the cells are still distributed in the same proportion ; if , for example , the supply of selective school places doubled but the class composition of the schools remained the same , d would change . |
| 20 | Thus the industrial relations outcomes of external pressures on state enterprises will be filtered through existing industrial relations structures ( which may themselves have been partly determined by the same external pressures ) . |
| 21 | By the time the men put their " memorial " to the employers in November 1909 , the situation was acute : " Not only has hand composition been lately going over more and more to female labour , but the operating on the type-composing machines has also been practically monopolised by the same class of cheap labour , to the consequent injury of our members . " |
| 22 | We are both heated by the same fire . |
| 23 | The colouring of the mosaics was almost identical and , although the guilloche of the former is simpler , they are both enclosed by the same outer border of white " T " shapes on a red background . |
| 24 | In other words , the two meanings ‘ male cousin ’ and ‘ female cousin ’ are both associated with the same lexical unit cousin , whose meaning is more general than either ; they therefore do not represent distinct senses of cousin . |
| 25 | The fact that the vendor company and my client are both controlled by the same individual is , I believe , irrelevant , as the unexpired portion of the lease was professionally valued by an independent third party . |
| 26 | Smoked trout , mackerel and smoked cod 's roe paste ( not to be confused with the Greek taramasalata in which the cod 's roe is mixed with olive oil and garlic ) are also made in the same way , except that the boiling water treatment is superfluous . |
| 27 | Samples of stream waters and heavy mineral concentrates are also taken at the same sites . |
| 28 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 29 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |
| 30 | Your cars spare parts and accessories are also insured in the same way as long as they are kept in or on your car or in your private garage and fall within the maximum amount we will pay . |