Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HCIMA has echnical information and lists of potential sources of help , many of whom are contained in this yearbook . |
| 2 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 3 | Some of them are explained in more detail on the following pages along with accounts of Tesco 's efforts to tackle a range of problems from toxic chemicals to energy conservation . |
| 4 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 5 | At the east end , the springmakers work , and the machines required by them are installed in this part , together with an electric welding machine and various bolt and nut machines ; boiler-makers work on the south and west sides , and the forging presses are also laid down here while the north side is mainly occupied by drop hammers . |
| 6 | Such questions are not only perennially interesting ; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge . |
| 7 | Bingley possesses an enormous fortune and both of them are committed to each other and love one another very deeply . |
| 8 | The Commission accept that both the 1968 and 1978 Theft Acts and the case law on them are thought by some to be " seriously defective " , but the draft Code was a restatement not a Code to reform the substance of the law . |
| 9 | Or has nothing been said about that yet ? |
| 10 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You think Miller and I are linked in some way ? |
| 12 | Gale said : ‘ I am gutted over this . |
| 13 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 14 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 15 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 16 | However , I am assured by those who know that public persons — premiers in particular — do not become reconciled to criticism , and despite affecting not to be , they remain immensely conscious of what is being said and are troubled if what is said is not to their liking . |
| 17 | I am fortified in this view by consideration of what could result if the local authority were right . |
| 18 | … I am moved by those cadences I find in Ivy . |
| 19 | Indeed my wife believes that if when I die I am cut in half , the letters ICI will be found stamped through me from top to bottom , like Blackpool rock . |
| 20 | I start up the hill towards Dýrafjöđ3ur but before I reach the top I am treated to some Icelandic weather . |
| 21 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 22 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 23 | I am influenced by many painters , usually those with a social or religious message such as Breughel , Velasquez , Goya , Delacroix , Gauguin or El Greco . |
| 24 | ‘ If I am a caveman , perhaps I am influenced by these islands ’ proliferation of caves ? ’ he suggested , grinning . |
| 25 | Time buckles and I am skewered to this one moment . |
| 26 | Nowadays , I am consulted on all matters pertaining to him , and I feel my role is to make him better known . |
| 27 | I am afflicted by that ambiguous unease which is produced by the prospect of starting some unwelcome task — a restless desire either to drink water or to pass it . |
| 28 | Marcus , not answering this question , said , ‘ I am confronted by several , quite different , dilemmas . |
| 29 | ‘ I am doomed for all eternity . ’ |
| 30 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |