Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in this darkness the process of crucifying the image of sin in the practice of penance is completed for the contemplative is dead to the world . |
| 2 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 3 | Her nervous system melshed with the dirigible 's , which was n't such a good idea since two of the four motors suddenly cut out and the right-side viewcam blanked . |
| 4 | Included in the fair is a ‘ video box ’ with twelve monitors and a competition for a large-scale sculpture or installation . |
| 5 | The effects of these depletions on the global ozone budget and the possibility of similar massive ozone reductions occurring over the Arctic are of prime interest . |
| 6 | Mr McKee referred to the Royal 's ‘ recent difficulties with one particular health and social services board ’ and said the media 's assistance in highlighting their problems contributed greatly to bringing about committed support from their own staff , the public and the GPs of the area . |
| 7 | Branches dominated by the left are less likely to be racialist , but unfortunately in many areas with large immigrant populations , like Leicester and Loughborough , the important union bureaucracies are controlled by the right wing . |
| 8 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |
| 9 | What happens for a simple is that on first application you bring your financial details to the interview references are taken up naturally in confidence and you are then allocated a place or not if you meet financial criteria . |
| 10 | The mask she has to wear in order to be accepted as an equal is seen to be seriously flawed . |
| 11 | There is not , of course , any serious evidence that kin support for the elderly is declining , despite the persistent myth that it is . |
| 12 | • Britain 's best loved soap opera , Coronation Street , will also have a smoky flavour later this autumn after filming took place on the Cheddleton-based North Staffs Railway 's picnic area looking towards the Knotty 's attractive base . |
| 13 | It is a commonplace to talk of the young being alienated . |
| 14 | Living with the dead is my life . |
| 15 | Other forms of words instilled into the young are also present . |
| 16 | When he came into the Provincial 's small executive team under managing director in June 1990 life was tough for the industry as a whole after the storms and other claims-raising disasters . |
| 17 | In the last four bars the melodic line is carried by the two clarinets in unison , and extra grace-notes which do not appear in the original are given to 2nd flute and 2nd oboe with the object of enhancing the suggestion of the chirping and clucking of chickens . |
| 18 | He also became very defensive and threatened human visitors in a way that he had not done before the young were born . |
| 19 | They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality . |
| 20 | A factor related to the above is the relatively high incidence of complex verbs phrases in the extract ( 59–62 ) : unlike the other two writers , James makes substantial use of modal and aspectual auxiliaries in such phrases as " would be " , " should n't catch " , could find " , " would have liked " , " had been invited " , " had been " . |
| 21 | Er to , to work the truth out of things , one has to think what Adam , Adam had lost in the beginning , what Jesus had to gain back , cos according to the Corinthian 's letter that erm Jesus came back to buy back what Adam had lost and if you can work out what Adam had lost in the , in the first place , then you can see the point why you 're put on the earth and you can see that it , that he , he was given a commandment not to take off the , the tree of kno knowledge written by were n't he ? |
| 22 | Pushed to the left were the tweeds and a green three-piece number the texture of a holly bush in a style unseen since the fifties . |
| 23 | Second , the presumption made by the healthy is that no one really wants to die . |
| 24 | Alongside the debates about the most appropriate method of caring for the elderly are concerns about the ‘ blocking ’ of acute beds by older people who no longer need the facilities provided by an acute setting but who , for other reasons , can not be discharged . |
| 25 | Often , the words alleged against the accused were spoken in an alehouse , and although alcohol might help loosen one 's inhibitions , we surely have to be sceptical about the depth of commitment of someone whose only Jacobite statement was made in a drunken stupor . |
| 26 | Much the most prominent in the archaeological record were ivory and shells , and it was mainly from these that the bracelets , necklaces and pendants buried with the dead were made . |
| 27 | Neatly coinciding with the fair is the publication of a new book , Facing the Page : the artist and the book , by Silvie Turner , published by Estamp which provides details of those working in this field in Britain at present and the projects currently underway as well as summarising the work of the last decade . |
| 28 | The one punchcard accessory that ca n't be used with the electronic is the punchcard lace carriage . |
| 29 | The goods sold in the fair are a true reflection of the contrasts in modern Bolivian society . |
| 30 | The individual worker who specializes in the elderly is a social work assistant , who carries a caseload of approximately sixty . |