Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottinghamshire club player Bryn Derbyshire was given a three-month suspended sentence with £300 costs , and had to pay £400 compensation to umpire Joseph Purser after causing ‘ bodily harm by wanton furious driving ’ by reversing his car at the umpire after a match in which he had been given out lbw . |
| 2 | Full details of what promise to be uplifting and enjoyable celebrations are carried on page 4 and the back cover . |
| 3 | ‘ People are fed up hearing about our injuries , but you ca n't run away from the fact that we have 28 professionals , and half of those ca n't be considered . |
| 4 | It 's the tiles are copies of ones found in the foundations and they 're hung on hand split oak lathes . |
| 5 | At the end of this season , when the achievements are totted up silverware or not Middlesbrough will have proved , once again , to be Cock of the North . |
| 6 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 7 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 8 | The redraft and the original are set out side by side so that typography and language may be compared . |
| 9 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |
| 10 | This was taken as proof of his innocence , especially when the case had been brought on suspicion . |
| 11 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 12 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 13 | He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen . |
| 14 | Up to 2,200lb of bombs could be carried on underwing racks . |
| 15 | CAMEO is designed to be carried on emergency vehicles and has undergone successful on-scene field trials with the Seattle Fire Department . |
| 16 | To avoid damage , Gyproc cove should be carried on edge , whether singly or in a bundle . |
| 17 | It will be about twice as long as the goods brake and , as Colin 's article states , it will be carried on No. 5 's bogies and used as a mobile shop/ticket office/refreshment car . |
| 18 | These from the castle will be more powerful , with longer range than any that can be carried on shipboard . |
| 19 | For direct mail to be carried out cost effectively we must accurately find out who the customers are , what motivates them to buy , and how can we best reach them — in short , planning . |
| 20 | Because of these complexities , friendships with the Willses tend to be built up step by step and to become all the more valued because their qualities are seldom revealed all at one time . |
| 21 | It is doubtful that Welton Ambassador will be seen out eventing again this season . |
| 22 | Ideally , gates should be hung on study posts , set well into the ground . |
| 23 | I 'm fed up hearing that the Olympic superstars are motivated by money . |
| 24 | Between the four of yous I 'm fed up buying hairspray . |
| 25 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |
| 26 | Glenavon chairman Adrian Teer confirmed : ‘ Glentoran will be turned down flat . |
| 27 | For instance , sugar came in huge blocks , so that before weighing it out , sufficient must be chipped off with a knife ; and black treacle must be ladled out spoonful by spoonful into the customer 's jar . |
| 28 | The pessimists feared the Conservatives ' nine seats could even be wiped out north of the border . |
| 29 | Under US export restrictions , only technology up to the Sparcstation 1+ level can be shipped out East , and although Sparcstation 2s will be allowed over ‘ within a couple of months , ’ there 's no green light for Sun 's superscalar boxes in the offing . |
| 30 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |