Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 2 | This allows for the entries to be made by machine accounting whereby several operations can be carried out at the same time . |
| 3 | New tasks for perception can only be carried out in the same way ‘ under the guidance of tactile appropriation ’ ( ibid : 242 ) . |
| 4 | Some business decisions can be carried out in the same way . |
| 5 | Perhaps random spot checks could be carried out in the same way as breathalyser tests . |
| 6 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 7 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 8 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 9 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 10 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 11 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 12 | It would seem that any other harmful fumes around would be drawn in by the same means , aerosols being a prime example . |
| 13 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 14 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
| 15 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
| 16 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 17 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 18 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 19 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 20 | Norman Cook will never be spoken about in the same breath as Jazzie B , yet ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is one of the hardest records you will ever hear seeping out of a Ford Escort at the traffic lights . |
| 21 | The majority , the huge majority , were to be shipped back in the same closed trains to the Motherland of Russia . |
| 22 | For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history . |
| 23 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 24 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 25 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 26 | ( The Soviet stance vis-à-vis Iraq had hardened noticeably during November with disillusionment over the expectation that 1,000 Soviet nationals would be allowed out within a few weeks following the Oct. 28-9 visit of Yevgeny Primakov [ see p. 37758 ] . |
| 27 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 28 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 29 | More than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , and all of the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) . |
| 30 | None of the following devices should , on any account , be switched on at the same time : the immersion heater in the master bathroom , the swimming-pool filter or the dishwashing machine . |