Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are angry and are pitching hard because of the polarisation of the debate between the status quo or independence . |
| 2 | Pits have been filled in and tips levelled to form the ubiquitous British , urban , flat landscape of close-mown turf and lollipop trees . |
| 3 | Today , no coal is exported from North Shields — the old Northumberland Dock has been filled in and is the site of a gas treatment station , an oil depot and Velva Liquids , which handles chemicals , etc . |
| 4 | In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid . |
| 5 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 6 | In addition , if you are delayed more than 12 hours and you have chosen to take the recommended Holiday Insurance Policy that Club 18–20 has arranged with Eagle Star , you have the right to cancel and receive a refund , or , at your preference , continue on your holiday and receive compensation of up to £65 per person . |
| 7 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 8 | What is also new is that they are building on and developing research in the various components of information skills . |
| 9 | The crowds are building up and doing things the American way . |
| 10 | How can he justify a cost per job in the strategic deterrent of £352,000 in a world in which the major powers are building down and renouncing weapons but he is building up ? |
| 11 | The demographic evidence on this matter has been examined above and found wanting as an explanation of population growth . |
| 12 | The contradictions in Belsey 's text have been examined sharply and at some length by Patrick Parrinder . |
| 13 | In the case of regulated agreements , the common law rule has been overturned so that s56(2) of CCA 1974 provides that antecedent negotiations shall be deemed to be conducted by the dealer , " in the capacity of agent of the creditor as well as in his actual capacity " . |
| 14 | This becomes discouraging because you are accumulating more and more partially learned material , and the more you go on , the worse it becomes . |
| 15 | Data accumulated subsequently suggests that the M 52 could have been flown safely and might have given the British aircraft industry a commanding lead in supersonic fighter development . |
| 16 | But this sound is not of this world for other sounds are heard distinctly and cause this sound to die , though it returns with the silence . |
| 17 | Repayments are calculated so that the total amount paid at each instalment is constant , but the capital and interest proportions vary . |
| 18 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 19 | If anxieties are ironed out before a transfer takes place , the employee is less likely to be under the pressure of family concerns when taking up the new appointment . |
| 20 | But all the previously jagged edges are ironed out and the sound watered down , presumably by the omnipresent hand of The Man , so that Billy Ray Wanker fans will buy it . |
| 21 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 22 | A spirit of enterprise may have to be injected into ventures that are justified even if only on this basis . |
| 23 | We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience . |
| 24 | ‘ Consequently , the measures which the member states may adopt when exercising the power conferred on them by article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/82 with a view to excluding certain of the vessels flying their flag from sharing in the utilisation of their national quota are justified only if they are suitable and necessary for attaining the aim of the quotas … |
| 25 | ( ii ) " Long Play " discs ( CLV : Constant Linear Velocity ) The frames on these discs are assigned differently and they do not play at constant speed . |
| 26 | Genomic mapping has yet to resolve the order of coding segments 1 and 2 , or 9 and 10 ; these are assigned tentatively as shown . |
| 27 | It also has a common interest with the health authority in seeing people are placed appropriately and beds are not clogged up . |
| 28 | Curiously , Gill and Jackson are aware of the problem of identity confusion but believe that it can be avoided if black children are placed transracially when very young : ‘ it is possible that older black children may , by the time a placement has occurred , have already internalised a definition of themselves as being black and that this definition may jeopardise the possibility of integration and emotional identification within a white family ’ ( p. 138 ) . |
| 29 | Now that the full complement of introns in the ancestral triose phosphate isomerase gene has been mapped , he has been able to show that they are placed so that amino acids near each other in the protein 's structure are encoded wherever possible by the same exon , bolstering the idea that the original form of the gene contained a full complement of introns and was produced by exon shuffling . |
| 30 | It had been hoped to have the English version ready for publication by Easter this year but it had been delayed principally because of objections to the use ‘ inclusive language ’ . |