Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 2 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 3 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 4 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 5 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 6 | Be careful , he warned , when buying bulbs such as cyclamen — some rarer varieties are gathered indiscriminately from certain parts of the Mediterranean and Turkey area and are in danger of disappearing . |
| 7 | The data are gathered mainly by intensive interviewing and observation of systems and management staff in ten organisations from the private and public sectors . |
| 8 | All four bedrooms have en suite facilities and are furnished individually with great care , the prettiest is perhaps the Waterwitch room , with its low bay window looking over the garden . |
| 9 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 10 | Final output targets are determined at the outset and input requirements are calculated precisely for each stage of manufacturing , including those bought from outside subcontractors . |
| 11 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 12 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 13 | During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another . |
| 14 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 15 | As Kaysen notes , ‘ [ w ] here new plants are placed both in regional terms and in relation to existing centers of population affects the balance of regional development and the character of urban and suburban growth ’ . |
| 16 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 17 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 18 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 19 | The domes are constructed on high drums but are hidden externally by steep conical , stone roofs . |
| 20 | The derivation of this is given in statistics textbooks and practical examples of its application , and an assessment of the closeness of the approximation , are given later in this chapter ( see p. 169 ) . |
| 21 | More examples of arguments along these lines are given later in this chapter . |
| 22 | Fuller details are given later in this Journal . |
| 23 | The Treasurer reported that the Society 's funds are in a healthy state , again the details are given later in this Journal . |
| 24 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 25 | Data from these vehicles are given freely to other nations in a global system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 26 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
| 27 | This could be in the form of simple notes , but a better way is to compile a revised shot list in which the details are given together with other editing information ( eg ‘ delete first six seconds ’ ) to help you set up the edit-points quickly . |
| 28 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 29 | Orthographically irregular words are pronounced more slowly than regular words ( Baron and Strawson , 1976 ; Underwood and Bargh , 1982 ) , indicating that they are treated differently in some way when they are read . |
| 30 | The incidence of heart failure among patients who are treated effectively with thrombolytic agents is probably lower than among those patients who are not treated . |