Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , being , a cunning old devil and a bit of a peeping tom , ( a purvoyeur ) , he knew where every valuable had been hidden and late one night he removed everything leaving the holes empty . |
| 2 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 3 | Another unexpected disappearance from the scene was that of the defence minister himself , Adnan Khairallah , the President 's cousin , reported early in 1989 as having been dismissed and later to have died in a helicopter crash . |
| 4 | It also appears that as the low variants are replaced by higher ones , the relevant vowels are lengthened and sometimes diphthongized : thus , as the rules are applied , conservative variants such as [ rant , raent ] : ‘ rent ’ , are replaced by [ rΕnt ] ( raising and lengthening ) and [ rΕ ? nt ] ( diphthongization ) . |
| 5 | Specific rates of the demand for HE from individuals with particular characteristics — these typically include age , gender and social class — are calculated and then forecasts are made of the future demand from individuals with these characteristics . |
| 6 | Other SmartMath features include symbolic/numeric optimisation which simplifies expressions before they are calculated and so speeds up calculations , and live symbolics which trigger the program to evaluate expressions symbolically , using all previous definitions in the document . |
| 7 | Bear in mind that a number of legal avenues may be open to you if you are dismissed and wrongly treated . |
| 8 | You might have ageing parents who you support and god knows how much other outgoings which are hidden and then you have to go down that road and say that you 're going to look at at financial status you 're going to have to say and exactly what are all of your outgoings in and now down going to get real unpleasant intrusion into people 's business . |
| 9 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 10 | We hear that progress has been rather slow of late but feel this has less to do with the quality of Swan Vesta the boys are using and more to do with their strange diets . |
| 11 | This is most unlikely if the shares are listed but very probable if the company is a private one . |
| 12 | As regards board structure , the Proposal suggests that , for all public companies ( PLCs ) , whether or not their shares are listed or otherwise publicly traded , a distinction should be drawn between directors responsible for ‘ supervision ’ on the one hand and ‘ management ’ on the other . |
| 13 | A control contract is subject to shareholder approval by a majority vote ( including any shares held by the dominant undertaking : but , in the case of a company whose shares are listed or publicly traded , the domestic regulatory authority may — as the Stock Exchange presently does — ban an interested shareholder from voting in this type of situation ) ; such a contract may therefore allow predators who have obtained board control of a company to make that company effectively subservient to an external body without the formalities of a takeover . |
| 14 | A number of ancient suture zones representing previous plate collisions have been recognized but only a few of these , such as the Urals and the Appalachians formed 300 to 250 MaBP , are major relief features at the present day , most having been extensively eroded and covered by later sediments . |
| 15 | Well what 's happening here is all the cars are stopped and there all one behind the other |
| 16 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 17 | We have therefore sought only one in-depth interview with each family so far , about six months after the positive screening test ; any other direct contact with the families has been limited and only when sought by them . |
| 18 | the square roots obtained from all the interest category loan components are totalled and then each individual square root is calculated as a percentage of that total . |
| 19 | But some children do relapse into bedwetting once the alarm has been withdrawn and so re-treatment may be necessary in about one-third of children ( Turner 1973 ) . |
| 20 | The proximal oral papillae are pointed and roughly leaf shaped , the distalmost papillae is distinctly triangular . |
| 21 | But he sees such expression as running contrary to the dominant idiom and cultural meaning in which users of the language are socialised and as therefore not what the anthropologist is trying to make sense of . |
| 22 | I find her difficult to handle and my soundings are that she is deeply unpopular in Fleet St. She is also said to be extremely bitter about the way she has been treated and evidently stands to make millions from various lawsuits . |
| 23 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 24 | Despite the high profile Serious Fraud Office , police resources are limited and already overburdened . |
| 25 | Opportunities to observe how the novice 's area supervisor or other , more experienced , colleagues handle negotiations or use their discretion are limited and usually confined to the bigger pollutions or more intractable problems . |
| 26 | Unless the total values stored in one risk are limited and highly hazardous commodities such as flammable liquids are isolated from them , and unless they are adequately protected by sprinklers , it will become increasingly difficult to obtain insurance cover . |
| 27 | It might , however , be the method of choice against mosquitoes in urban regions where there may be more houses than breeding places , where there is likely to be opposition to house spraying , and where the breeding places are limited and more easily identified . |
| 28 | Thus , the Guideline on Evaluation , one of a series of Guidelines produced by The Library Association 's Sub-committee on Training , goes into considerable theoretical analysis , but its practical conclusions are limited and somewhat pessimistic : |
| 29 | Martinsville , USA : The three industrial products businesses within Courtaulds Films , covering dyed films , vacuum coating and coating/laminating , have been decentralised and now operate as closely linked but separate businesses . |
| 30 | Many students have little faith in the value of what or how they are taught and largely despise school . |