Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linked to the income tax reforms are two changes to the national insurance contribution system ( other reforms affecting entitlement are discussed below ) . |
| 2 | Diets started without preparation are broken all too easily . |
| 3 | Beneath the Castle you will find dungeons and ‘ A Smuggler 's Adventure ’ in St. Clement 's Caves where strange tales of smuggling are retold daily . |
| 4 | A work of trash cinema par excellence , wit and sublime effects backed up by ideas , The Fly is a bleak modern fable where love , sex and faith are rent asunder by arrogance and human folly . |
| 5 | Kalchu had been working them , tilling the land on the south-facing slope of Jimale , where wheat and bitter buckwheat are sown alternately . |
| 6 | In India , for example , 6000 million t of topsoil are lost annually , while in the highlands of Ethiopia the annual figure is 1600 million t ( Earth Report 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country . |
| 8 | There are various operations offered , which have a high rate of success in minimising damage : the layers of the retina are sealed together by freezing or other techniques and the volume of the eye is decreased to reduce the chances of the retina being pulled open again . |
| 9 | Make sure that the ends of your hair are tucked neatly under the roller . |
| 10 | Silicone particles have no affinity with themselves so when they form the ingredients of a conditioner , any particles not attracted to the hair are washed away and create no build-up . |
| 11 | Matters of privilege are raised more rarely there than in the Commons . |
| 12 | The worker members of the supervisory board are elected partly by the works council and partly by the trade unions . |
| 13 | The deterioration to be expected has been analysed by the author , and results for the 80/20 case are given here . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal 's grounds for finding a duty of care in this case are scrutinized elsewhere . |
| 15 | Areas of woodland and permanent pasture are mapped together with built-up areas as inaccessible to archaeologists . |
| 16 | Some 24% of them are true endemics ; 18 species of flowering plants in this category are restricted entirely to the high Arctic . |
| 17 | Reputations for beauty , grace , wit , intelligence or for strength , humour , kindness , honesty are made early or never made at all . |
| 18 | The two frames of reference within which the problems of female and black underachievement are located therefore are quite different . |
| 19 | ( The rates for postage are shown below . ) |
| 20 | The terms of a contract are settled either before or at the time of making the contract . |
| 21 | Damages for breach of contract should put you as nearly as possible in the position that you would have occupied had your contract been performed properly — but no better . |
| 22 | Finger positions and speeds at every location in a text are recorded together with the reader 's voice during normal reading . |
| 23 | All notes , symbols and text are entered here and the majority of the editing also . |
| 24 | Had hir survival expertise been destroyed somewhere during the treatment SHe 'd had ? |
| 25 | Motifs from this play are repeated prominently in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 26 | Many recreation items such as caravans and boats that are on hire purchase are used so seldom they could be rented over the course of the hire purchase scheme and with enough cash left over to buy the item new if we still wanted one . |
| 27 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 28 | Why has lump sum payment been brought forward to 31 May ? |
| 29 | Details of this algorithm are described fully in Chapter Three , so only a brief outline is given here : |
| 30 | The practical components of such a response are discussed below but one perspective is crucial with regard to organisational structure ; it should reflect the integrity of relationships and be a vehicle for effective management . |