Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 2 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 3 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 4 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 5 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 7 | In the spring , the same publisher will be bringing out the Mémoires of Charles Perrault , unobtainable since first published in 1906 , with an introduction by Antoine Picon . |
| 8 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 9 | Will you be under huge pressures or will you be winding down a bit by then ? |
| 10 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 11 | The crew will be volunteers from the Midlands and a special headboard will be carried on the front of the locomotive , one of the Ffestiniog 's unique double engines . |
| 12 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 13 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 14 | decided that by using a temporary coupler from the motor to the drive shaft some preparatory work for making the change could be carried out a year before the main change , reducing the delay . |
| 15 | Project appraisal involves many calculations which must be carried out a number of times to produce a proper sensitivity analysis . |
| 16 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 17 | I honestly do n't think that the public walking past the building will actually notice very much , except that in the foyer , they 're going to be knocking down the sort of glass partition , so you , people will see that a little bit is going on . |
| 18 | If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take . |
| 19 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 20 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 21 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 22 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 23 | It is possible , of course , to imagine that the first of these sentences describes one event and the second describes another , quite unrelated , event ( so the person identified as ‘ a mother ’ may be picking up a chair in the course of cleaning a room ) . |
| 24 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 25 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 26 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 27 | The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture . |
| 28 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 29 | We will take your pledge to the Earth Summit where it will be hung on the Tree of Life itself . |
| 30 | A set of pictures can be hung from ribbons or cords — for example , a set of two or three miniature ovals can be hung down a length of ribbon , with a velvet or silk bow positioned at the top of the strip . |