Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Baroness Lemberg 's creepily ornate fortune-telling parlor the lights are on and the baroness ( Miss Page ) is supposedly tuned in to the truth . |
| 2 | Also , the pressure on interest rates has been down and the balance of trade has shifted into surplus . |
| 3 | I 'd been in and the east fields at . |
| 4 | But he had not been in and the note was as she had left it . |
| 5 | But as Ivan Nagy says , ‘ The barriers are down and the world is becoming — in a civilised way — polluted with Russian dancers , and the myth will tone down . |
| 6 | It is interesting to trace the way in which the times of meals have changed over the centuries , particularly because in everyday life it is not just the clock which tells us which part of the day we are in but the meals that we eat . |
| 7 | Rather the objectives/skills analysis curriculum actually teaches dependence , in that it does not teach the children to challenge the system they are in and the places they will graduate to . |
| 8 | For example , when the forty days of mourning a death are over and the women in the family who have foregone food or combing their hair can start a normal life again , it is their female friends and sisters who cook for them and comb and oil their hair . |
| 9 | It possesses no clear Coda , no signal that the events of the narrative are over and the narrator is , so to speak , giving up the floor . |
| 10 | According to social services and health chiefs in the north-west , Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit are out and The X Factor is now flavour of the day . |
| 11 | She had been out and the mother left alone and ill , all morning . |
| 12 | That 's the only way the pressure would be down and the leak with water you know , it had to be a water leak . |
| 13 | This is a very attractive position to be in and the firm would begin to expand very quickly , using more and more investment capital . |
| 14 | It was hoped that , in present circumstances , the drawbridge would not be up nor the portcullis down , with the enemy army camped so close at hand , and its leaders no doubt either in the castle or lodged in houses in the town . |
| 15 | If you know what the story or feature is to be about and the angle from which the producer or journalist is approaching it you will be able to be much more helpful . |
| 16 | The great Felipe had not even been around and the servants had ignored the fact that the inglésa was calmly walking towards the great gates . |
| 17 | Cornelius noticed that the lights were on and the curtains drawn . |
| 18 | About the journey being on and the reconciliation o , of them . |
| 19 | We both knew only too well because of the business we were in and the sort of people we were what could happen . ’ |
| 20 | Operating expenses were down and the company has $1.1 billion in cash . |
| 21 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 22 | When the 3 weeks were up and the Scraggs returned , we looked for other accommodation and found a flat in Riccarton , close to Hagley Park and only a mile from the city centre , and we liked it so much we stayed for four weeks having intended two . |
| 23 | And by the time Cornelius had left the playground and taken to the street , his feet were up and the cigarettes were out . |
| 24 | The lamps were out and the curtains open , letting in an aquarium light that showed up the room for what it really was : a cold , colourless tomb . |
| 25 | One thirty until three thirty a friendly ballroom and sequence tea dance with refreshments is on and the I C C on Mansfield Road in Nottingham the International Community Centre and that 's half one till half three . |
| 26 | There 's only half an hour intermission while the news is on and the votes are collated , and the contestants ' fear ferments into an almost hysterical euphoria . |
| 27 | The areas of experience necessary for the full satisfaction of the Test requirements have proven very difficult to acquire over the two-year period , since what is available to the candidate is conditional upon the type of practice he is in and the volume and the quality or variety of commissions received . |
| 28 | Inflation is down but the problem for the Tories is that unemployment is up , business failures are up , house repossessions are up , interest rates are high and economic growth is non-existent . |
| 29 | I prefer to stick to lower levels and there are some walks I 've enjoyed more when the mist is down and the countryside has taken on a more sinister or unreal appearance . |
| 30 | The catastrophic eight year war between Iraq and Iran is over but the suffering of women and children under Saddam Husain 's bloody rule continues mercilessly . |