Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 3 | That is one reason why companies like ICI and IBM are building up comprehensive communications programmes , internal as well as external which involve listening just as much as talking . |
| 4 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 5 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 6 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 7 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 8 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 9 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 10 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 11 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 12 | Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’ |
| 13 | The North Down skipper reports no new arrivals on the scene and , although Colin Mockford has left to join Holywood , the Harp Senior League champions will have a significant input as Paul Johnston and Kyle Thompson have both been helping out first XI coach Austin Hunter . |
| 14 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 15 | Following Rayner 's discovery of such scandals as the laboratory with a 20-year supply of embossing tape , administrators all over the country are rooting out uneconomic practices . |
| 16 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 17 | In this case the excitation sequence has been jumped back two steps ( = half the total sequence of four steps ) and the step counter contents must be adjusted . |
| 18 | Talks on the future of Northern Ireland are to carry on next week . |
| 19 | Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ . |
| 20 | It indicates the persons who are to carry out those aspects of the work , thereby defining person responsibilities . |
| 21 | Secondly , is it appropriate to regard the state as bringing companies into existence on the understanding that they are to carry out public purposes , and hence similarly justifying a right of intervention ? |
| 22 | The Euge boys are whipping up considerable consternation over here largely because , as every single Atlantic Records ' employee is wont to point out , the fella from Nirvana likes ‘ em . |
| 23 | The Yugoslavs are bringing in considerable numbers — partly regulars and partly irregular forces — and repeating the Venezia Giulia tactics . |
| 24 | Whereas now we have put in a culture of performance , measuring against standards , and this year are bringing in performance-related pay . |
| 25 | In consequence , hitherto untouched lands are now being exploited ; and more intense land-use pressures coupled with an increased demand for fuelwood are bringing about environmental change at an unprecedented rate . |
| 26 | Some say it is they who are bringing about these times that are upon us . |
| 27 | ECMT papers report that existing and planned emission controls are bringing about significant reductions in air and noise pollution levels . |
| 28 | Here again , developments in computers are bringing about rapid changes . |
| 29 | recent Government White Papers are bringing about fundamental changes in many areas of further education , the most obvious being the upgrading of polytechnics to university status , together with the disbandment of the Council for National Academic Awards through which polytechnics awarded their degrees . |
| 30 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |