Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 8 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 9 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 10 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 11 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 12 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 13 | But the DIA would n't risk any action based on information that might have been traced back to one of Asmar 's people . |
| 14 | Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives . |
| 15 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |
| 16 | Mills 's activity as a surveyor and architect has been traced back to 1638 , but his claim to architectural celebrity was his building in 1654–6 of Thorpe Hall , near Peterborough , for Oliver St John [ q.v . ] , |
| 17 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 18 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 20 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 21 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 22 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 23 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 24 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 25 | ALL major social security benefits are to go up by 3.6 per cent in line with inflation from next April . |
| 26 | This involves staff cuts , 850 of which have already been announced : 400 jobs are to go out of 1700 in Hull , 130 out of 650 in Baglan Bay , 200 out of 1300 in Antwerp and 120 out of 600 in central office . |
| 27 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 28 | Not only in P P G seven but as has been pointed out in other erm guidance notes such as four erm and three . |
| 29 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 30 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |