Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 On the back of each barrack room door was a plan of how our lockers should look : trousers , shirts , socks , pants , vests and everything else had to be sucked in a certain order , and folded exactly thirty-five centimetres square .
32 Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours .
33 Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide .
34 Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness .
35 PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS .
36 The clauses under which Edward renounced his claim to the French throne and John renounced sovereignty over Aquitaine were excised from the treaty and embodied in a separate document which laid down that the renunciations were to be carried out no later than 1 November 1361 , and were to be conditional upon the transfers of territory agreed in the treaty being implemented by June 1361 .
37 Once any treatment has been completed , partial water changes should be carried out every three days on three consecutive occasions , before returning to fortnightly changes of about 20% , with water that must be as near as possible to that already in the aquarium , ( but hopefully that goes without saying these days ) .
38 From age 65 they well be carried out every 6 months .
39 Executions continue to be carried out an alarming rate in China , USA , Russia , Iraq , Iran and Nigeria .
40 Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance .
41 She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system .
42 Elsewhere , however , known historical fords or bridge sites can be picked out every high summer when the crowfoot blooms — literally , living history .
43 More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down .
44 The chart itself should be hung on a well-lit , shadow-free wall at a distance of six metres from where the subject stands .
45 Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface .
46 With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result .
47 These welfare recipients must be thinned out every three years . ’
48 Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening .
49 Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres .
50 That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all .
51 This space thus contains all the elements of the assembly and can be reflected up the hierarchical structure to a level at which assemblies are being considered .
52 Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying …
53 He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell .
54 By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes .
55 Royalty was to be one-twelfth and this to be paid at the end of every half-year : the said ore to be weighed up every three months and the banks to be cleared at the end of every such three months after weighing up .
56 The SPD pointed out that one-third of asylum-seekers came from Turkey and that strong pressure should be brought on the Turkish government to prevent this .
57 Such a claim can of course be brought in the same action by which the recognition of the automatic hiring and the awarding of the relevant salary is sought .
58 Still more damning evidence could be brought about the long-term effect of punches to the head .
59 The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up .
60 All this can be put on a quantitative basis and doing so results in the celebrated condition written unc that is , the product of the uncertainties in position and momentum is always at least of the order of magnitude of Planck 's constant .
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