Example sentences of "[be] [verb] and [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bear in mind that a number of legal avenues may be open to you if you are dismissed and wrongly treated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well what 's happening here is all the cars are stopped and there all one behind the other |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The proximal oral papillae are pointed and roughly leaf shaped , the distalmost papillae is distinctly triangular . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Despite the high profile Serious Fraud Office , police resources are limited and already overburdened . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many students have little faith in the value of what or how they are taught and largely despise school . |
| 24 | One might surmise that this is because they represent elemental features from which all other structures are compounded and so constitute basic units of mental processing from which all learning proceeds . |
| 25 | The discipline is the only means by which these forces are consumed and thus destroyed . |
| 26 | ‘ All marked spaces are filled and then motorists exercise their personal ingenuity . |
| 27 | Subsequently legal changes and current policy developments are examined and finally some examples of successful involvement of children and parents in key decision making are presented . |
| 28 | ‘ But a meeting has been arranged and hopefully the accountants can clear it up . ’ |
| 29 | The Russian Ministry of the Interior reports that , in the first six months of this year , 2,211 crimes in that field have been registered and about 10,000 works of art stolen from State museums and private collectors . |
| 30 | The siting of the control and communications unit where the emergency signals are received and possibly monitored for secondary action i.e. isolating services etc. , is imperative , and slave mimic display panels should be considered at other and remote positions from the prime risk areas to ensure cover for the control of the emergency operations . |