Example sentences of "and [pron] be [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was asked this week if it is possible to make up your own , rather than buy one of these metal affairs on wheels . |
| 2 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 3 | After that , Mr Dance went away and I was given some food . |
| 4 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 5 | Oh , oh , it 's already 10 am and nobody 's posted last night 's result . |
| 6 | And you were allocated this house in The Chantry ? |
| 7 | She 's going around calling me a murderer and she 's invited this Cobalt in to turn over the place looking for drugs . ’ |
| 8 | Further results showed that her immunoglobulins were low , particularly IgG with a value of 5.11 g/l , and she was given intravenous immunoglobulin ( Gammimmune-N , 25 g ) to aid her recovery . |
| 9 | ‘ If the process is allowed to achieve a more relaxed rhythm of its own and we are given enough time to handle the international consequences , the Soviet leadership probably could live with the kind of confederal links between the two Germanys which are under discussion now . ’ |
| 10 | And we 're promised more winter weather tonight . |
| 11 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 12 | and we were informed last week that |
| 13 | If a joint is swollen and there is increased synovial fluid in the joint , a sample of this fluid can be taken by your vet and tested for the presence of white blood cells in the joint . |
| 14 | They 're anti-social , handicapped people , and they 're kept that way . |
| 15 | And they 're stretched far back you see . |
| 16 | The irises of his eyes were almost large enough to exclude the whites and they were coloured light green like grapes and flecked with gold . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , he saw the news of the Club and course as a good story and they were given generous coverage for many years . |
| 18 | Maamur showed , when winning a maiden race at Southwell last month by 10 lengths , that he has the potential to develop into a useful stayer and he is napped this afternoon . |
| 19 | But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he 's served two jail sentences . |
| 20 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 21 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 22 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 23 | He was Mr Geoffrey Pattie , and he was given special responsibility for space ; numerous bullish stories appeared in the press about the likelihood of increased British space expenditure . |
| 24 | The boat was gone completely , and he was tossed this way and that in the water . |
| 25 | Ladbroke acquired Hilton International in 1987 and he was appointed chief executive in 1990 . |
| 26 | There were found footprint evidences that young Brown had crossed and recrossed Hunder Beck , that he had been at the top of the high moor , and he was traced half way back , with probably thirty-six sheep which were recovered on Sunday . |
| 27 | Many others , however , ( and it 's believed this group included Orkney Islands Council ) would have liked to see the family leave South Ronaldsay altogether . |
| 28 | Yes lovely , amino acids , right , it 's one particular amino acid there are eight essential amino , amino acids and it 's one of these and it 's called venial alanine you do n't have to remember that , it 's very difficult to , to remember . |
| 29 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 30 | It is owned by the Rank Organisation and it is understood that bar boss Bary Faulkner , who owns Faulkner 's in the town 's Albert Road , is interested in buying it . |