Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Proceedings may be instituted before a national court , and such proceedings have been successfully brought in the UK .
2 Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on .
3 They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found .
4 Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll .
5 Currently , 6,000 inspections are not carried out every year .
6 You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame
7 If they are deliberately turned up the ‘ right ’ way , they appear doubly solid , as the brighter light strikes the paler area .
8 These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives .
9 This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other .
10 Nigel was strapped into a light commode in a sitting position and had been carefully carried down the fire escape to the waiting car .
11 Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues .
12 passengers are now taken on a picturesque two and a half mile long trip to Holywell Halt and beyond .
13 Tiphook Piggyback System Demonstration — This new innovative system will be actively demonstrated explaining how road vehicles can be successfully carried on the railway .
14 and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er
15 At about this time a hitherto unsuccessful fortune-teller living on the other side of the block chanced to glance into her scrying bowl , gave a small scream and , within the hour , had sold her jewellery , various magical accoutrements , most of her clothes and almost all her other possessions that could not be conveniently carried on the fastest horse she could buy .
16 Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc .
17 When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower .
18 We are then taken on a tour of the factory while waiting for lunch .
19 Fox and Stephen Brown L.JJ. noted , at pp. 1080 and 1089 , that the relevant statements were not taken on the basis that they were merely ‘ to be used for a private investigation to see if the police had acted improperly in any way ’ — one of the two main reasons for Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Neilson v. Laugharne , the other being that the plaintiff there was merely ‘ fishing . ’
20 A written request for a brief photocall from the media , who were not allowed up the 100-yard driveway to the hotel , was conveyed by a garda to Mr Keenan .
21 Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased .
22 After a few weeks most boys bought their own pens and they were usually carried down the top of the right sock .
23 Telephone lines were also fed down the mine .
24 Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks .
25 They were now gathered around a large rock , on which stood a rather ordinary looking , dark haired , middle-aged man .
26 And er you see you were n't allowed down the pit till you were fourteen .
27 His remains were then hung on a gibbet as a warning to others .
28 Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore .
29 He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins .
30 Erm certainly on the rescue tenders , erm erm on , on each division would have that equipment , it 's not carried on every fire engine as far as I know now , erm I , I do n't see why it should n't but er again I think it 's a matter of cost , and , and carrying it about as well and finding the space for it , but certainly it 's at hand when it 's needed .
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