Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 2 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 3 | Here your lines should be fine , light and crisp and areas of colour must be blended carefully for a smooth result . |
| 4 | A mixture of clay and graphite are used for these pencils which produces an extremely soft dense black mark which can be blended further with water . |
| 5 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 6 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 7 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 8 | If they seem to be drawing close to us , we shall kill your niece without hesitation . ’ |
| 9 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 10 | Since their savings were completely liquid ( ie , they could be withdrawn immediately from banks ) , they were equivalent to cash . |
| 11 | Hungary 's Prime Minister , Miklós Németh , told parliament on Jan. 23 that in recent conversations with his Soviet counterpart , Nikolai Ryzhkov , it had been agreed in principle that Soviet troops could be withdrawn completely from Hungary , and that negotiations on a timetable would begin shortly . |
| 12 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 13 | Since money is less likely to be withdrawn quickly from time accounts , banks may feel the need to hold less liquidity , and therefore may decide to increase credit , thus expanding the money supply . |
| 14 | A whole set of disagreements on trade , notably over North American free trade and the GATT , could be smoothed over under that rubric : to be open and unbelligerent on trade is not weak-minded , but is in America 's interests . |
| 15 | His stubborn cousin , who saw his models as a kind of earth , part of the body and blood of the soil they dug , one impregnating the other , failed to see how the interchange he saw stamped on the dazed faces of these men could be smoothed away without losing the secret of how they lived , rooted and dumb and rough-barked as live willow trees . |
| 16 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 17 | An over-ambitious social physics , albeit statistically sophisticated , would give an oddly flat theory of social relationships precisely because unique , yet meaningful , patterns would be smoothed out under general statistical laws . |
| 18 | The main purpose of the costings for the latter years is to identify probable peaks and troughs in the overall programme , which can be smoothed out by phasing in major projects so as to avoid clashes . |
| 19 | And now the intimate clothes which she had put on so unthinkingly on the day of her death would be smoothed out by strange hands , scrutinised under ultra-violet light , perhaps be handed up , neatly docketed , to the judge and jury in the Crown Court . |
| 20 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 21 | The problem of computer-related crime will be highlighted today in the Law Commission 's report on Computer Misuse . |
| 22 | His experience will be highlighted tonight in a probe into cash machines by ITV 's This Week programme . |
| 23 | This is especially true of black women writers , who tend to be plucked out of context to lend a splash of colour to a pallid white landscape — like a single exotic flower among drab , overwatered shrubs . |
| 24 | Your hands will now be resting lightly over your ribs . |
| 25 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 26 | I think we 'll get together , Peter Davis , with with the Districts on that particular point , as far as the previous point erm madam , erm then you can rest assured that er the County Surveyor will be rousted out of his dinner tonight er erm when I get back , with a view to er providing the information that you require . |
| 27 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 28 | Endometriosis may be diagnosed late in women using intrauterine devices as pain and bleeding occur with both . |
| 29 | Reducing the aperture is known as ‘ stopping down ’ , exposure can be altered both by altering exposure time or size of aperture , e.g. an exposure 1/50th second at f/8 is equivalent to one of 1/100th second at f5.6 . |
| 30 | It is only because the different elements in the limb have their own positional identity that their pattern and form can be altered independently during evolution . |