Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To start with , imagine you are given just the physical outline of adults of several species . |
| 2 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 3 | And they are treated exactly the same as anybody else on the Tour . |
| 4 | There is extensive empirical evidence to show that if people who are leaving are treated well the quality of the service or product is maintained . |
| 5 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 6 | The group seems to have been given only the most broad and general of aims . |
| 7 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 8 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 9 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 10 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 11 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 12 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 13 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 14 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 15 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 16 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 17 | If other variables , such as blood pressure response , exercise duration and induced ventricular ectopics or arrhythmias , are included then the value of the test as a prognostic indicator increases markedly . |
| 18 | If two values of probability density are nominated then the area they define under the curve is the probability that any item drawn from the sample will lie between them . |
| 19 | If two values of probability density are nominated then the area they define under the curve is the probability that any item drawn from the sample will lie between them . |
| 20 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 21 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 22 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 23 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 24 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 25 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 26 | If an announcement has been prepared then the response to a leak should be more effective than in the event of having to deal with the situation at short notice . |
| 27 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 28 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 29 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 30 | As with other addictions , compulsive gambling and risk taking are seen when the sufferer is compelled to return despite repeated and increasing negative consequences and when the processes is used inappropriately and compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood . |