Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the call , quickly run through what has been said , to make sure that you have taken the right order or been given the correct information . |
| 2 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 3 | People only go to hospital when they are sick or are visiting the sick . |
| 4 | Section l(c) of the Nullity of Marriage Act should , therefore , either be repealed or be given the wide , radical , but unintended , interpretation outlined above . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Average ’ will either buy Israeli Koi , or save up for or be given the occasional better Japanese fish . |
| 6 | Or being liked the more because of it . ’ |
| 7 | The two luxury cars that are capturing the German imagination . |
| 8 | But these services are not among those that are experiencing the highest growth rates in the 1980s . |
| 9 | Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) . |
| 10 | He says ’ I think that for everyone who is objecting to the festival locally there are a lot more who are happy to see it go on and see the space used properly and there are twenty five thousand people here from all over the country that are loving the three days . ’ |
| 11 | Well I think if you look at the main jobs in Britain , all the managers are male , and I think it 's , it 's gon na change when we do have females and males in all these erm , these jobs that are managing the main N H S , social work |
| 12 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 13 | The fish are drawn into nets using an electrical charge ; the more fish that are caught the purer the water is likely to be . |
| 14 | The incidents that are reported the following day are necessarily the more memorable ones — memorable for their oddity . |
| 15 | And she 's just like , this really officious and then , she just said , everybody goes round , and they try and get the cheapest price and they go back to the place that are giving the cheapest price , whatever . |
| 16 | United States climatologists are discussing preliminary evidence that sulphur dioxide — a major pollutant and contributor to acid rain — may be inducing localised cooling effects that are countering the warming influences of greenhouse gases . |
| 17 | I found one of those plastic and formica Little Chefs that were replacing the old greasy spoon eateries and went straight into the Gents . |
| 18 | There she bargained with the Queen , and in return for not harrying the English ships that were pursuing the Spanish Armada , O'Malley was allowed a free hand in Connaught . |
| 19 | One or two instances that were favouring the fifty percent . |
| 20 | Nor could capitalist or socialist states deal by themselves with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe , or the difficulties that were facing the developing countries . |
| 21 | In the previous chapter a distinction was made between the attitudinal function of intonation and several other functions that were given the collective names of syntagmatic functions . |
| 22 | The latest Microprocessor Report says the cancelled Motorola Inc 68050 , a minor upgrade of the 68040 , fell prey to a resource battle with two next-generation implementations that were to follow the 68050 : the LP040 , a low-cost , low-power re-implementation of the 68040 in 0.5 micron technology due to sample in late 1993 , and ‘ Q ’ , a fully static modular , superscalar , superpipelined part that borrows from the 88110 and will probably come out as the 68060 . |
| 23 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 24 | However , some of the problems that were to haunt the postwar aviation industry had already begun to appear . |
| 25 | It was here that were found the richest markets . |
| 26 | Nor is coaching the same as either counselling or formal appraisal . |
| 27 | Nor is shooting the only manner of the birds ' destruction , because they are also trapped , by being driven into defiles and then caught in nets stretched between the trees . |
| 28 | But flooring need not cost the earth ; nor is carpeting the only solution . |
| 29 | It is this alternative that is called the competing behaviour ( CB ) . |
| 30 | Because they are connected with the area of the cortex that is designated the auditory cortex . |