Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 4 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Yugoslavs are bringing in considerable numbers — partly regulars and partly irregular forces — and repeating the Venezia Giulia tactics . |
| 11 | Whereas now we have put in a culture of performance , measuring against standards , and this year are bringing in performance-related pay . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ECMT papers report that existing and planned emission controls are bringing about significant reductions in air and noise pollution levels . |
| 14 | Here again , developments in computers are bringing about rapid changes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 18 | I 've actually read it three timesThe idea was born in an Oxford workshop where David Pollard and Susan Nelson have been knocking out printed copies and computer discs since April . |
| 19 | The blooms are carried on long stalks and are over an inch across . |
| 20 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 21 | And now the states emerging from the Soviet empire are opening up new markets for him : ‘ Suddenly there are 17 or so more countries all wanting their own national stamps , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Sudden plagues of these creatures have been occurring over recent years which settle upon living reefs and devour the coral polyps . |
| 23 | I AM walking over hot coals , supended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs . |
| 24 | ‘ I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs , ’ he said of the fight against anti-Europeans in his own party . |
| 25 | Since this work has been carried out other dictionaries have also become available . |
| 26 | A Special Branch Officer said : ‘ It shows they are driving around nationalist areas , consulting electoral register records and basically doing their homework . ’ |
| 27 | FAMILIES are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel giants slash the cost of trips to the sun . |
| 28 | In the Conran shop Thirtysomethings are snapping up bendy Babars at £10 a pop ; Liberty stocks Babar children 's wear ; there 's a film and TV series on the way . |
| 29 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 30 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |