Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 2 | ‘ Consequently , the measures which the member states may adopt when exercising the power conferred on them by article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/82 with a view to excluding certain of the vessels flying their flag from sharing in the utilisation of their national quota are justified only if they are suitable and necessary for attaining the aim of the quotas … |
| 3 | Rose thought the girl had n't been eating enough until she unclasped the bracelet and discovered the pus-stained square of lint beneath . |
| 4 | To be told that animals are treated cruelly when they are caused unnecessary or unjustified pain is of little use unless we are told what counts as unnecessary or unjustified pain . |
| 5 | They are puzzling over whether it should be spelt ‘ E.C.U . ’ |
| 6 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 7 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , it must have been raining miserably when they went through here . ’ |
| 9 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 10 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 11 | The citation process has not been explained simply because it has been described . |
| 12 | One might suggest that the support service which the team gives to families has been developed largely because it was an " unclaimed " service area , as it were . |
| 13 | well said it does n't look as if it 's been painted once since it was built ! |
| 14 | Remember also that the thesis is not that authoritative determinations are binding only if they correctly reflect the reasons on which they depend . |
| 15 | But as the directives are binding only if they do not deviate much from right reason and as we should act on them only if they are binding , we always have to go back to fundamentals . |
| 16 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 17 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |
| 18 | It is said that more pigs are reared there than there are people in the entire country . |
| 19 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 20 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 21 | It had been bucketing down when she 'd left home that morning . |
| 22 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been climbing ever since I was a child , and I suppose Everest has always been a dream for me , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Different supporters clubs around the world , have got official status , and yet I 'm sure at meetings and socials of these clubs , worse ideas and maybe even actions are carried out than what has been discussed between us . |
| 26 | One was villagers being told that his visit had been cancelled just as he was arriving . |
| 27 | The genetic algorithms form a separate family which do not involve anything resembling neurones , but they are included here because they take their data in a very low level form , like the input to a neural net . |
| 28 | The theory of differential equations , as usually taught , is a rag-bag of special tricks , many of which are a waste of time and are included only because they can be calculated without having to think about what 's really going on . |
| 29 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 30 | By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic . |