Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The demographic evidence on this matter has been examined above and found wanting as an explanation of population growth . |
| 2 | But this sound is not of this world for other sounds are heard distinctly and cause this sound to die , though it returns with the silence . |
| 3 | All the main skills are treated thoroughly and form an integrated part of the course : |
| 4 | Naturally , most of the staff in the camp considered themselves lucky to have been posted here and dreaded the idea of a move , which created the feeling of being on the sidelines . |
| 5 | The picnic hamper had been stacked quietly and moved aside . |
| 6 | Dr Chris Tydeman , Senior Conservation Officer UK for WWF , says this means there are no plans for an organisation taking a total view of Great Britain 's needs ( Northern Ireland has always been treated separately and has no NCC ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Bradford are limited financially and have to sell players to cut the wage bill , ’ said Todd . |
| 8 | Information abounds — piste maps are dispensed beside lift queues , weather forecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly . |
| 9 | And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up . |
| 10 | And for what reason had Sir Thomas Vaughan , his chamberlain , a man he trusted and respected above most , been marched away and imprisoned like a common thief ? |
| 11 | To conclude : I have suggested that conversational interactions , not just for speakers who obviously " straddle two cultures " but even for those who have traditionally been called " monolingual " and " monocultural " , involve the speaker in animating a series of personas which are realised linguistically and derive their symbolic value from their association with stereotypes which have reality and symbolic value for the interactants . |
| 12 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 13 | Some of the barley is used for malting to make beer but about two-thirds is fed to beef cattle which are fattened quickly and slaughtered at about 1½ years old . |
| 14 | The building has been carpeted throughout and furnished with new blinds and new lino . |
| 15 | In such circumstances the costs are carried forward and amortised over a period not exceeding five years commencing when the group begins to benefit from the expenditure . |
| 16 | At other times it is relatively hidden , smoothed over by extensive cultivation , familiarity and the techniques of what Bourdieu calls ‘ legitimation ’ , only to be revealed when constituent elements are wrenched away and placed in a new setting . |
| 17 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 18 | Extraintestinal involvement in Crohn 's disease has been reported increasingly and has been described in the skin , vulva , bone , and lung . |
| 19 | ‘ West Indians ’ are grouped together and contrasted with ‘ Asians ’ and ‘ Whites ’ . |
| 20 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 21 | All my self-esteem , respect and confidence have been eroded away and need re-building . |
| 22 | They had been approached beforehand and had agreed to go to Luxor and back as members of the Prince 's party . |
| 23 | Clough has already been approached privately and has confirmed he will accept the honour . |
| 24 | Then if a micro-instruction contains the control bits 10011 followed by zeros , the paths from the accumulator to the left-side of the adder , from the SDR to the right side of the adder , and from the result latches to the accumulator are opened ; thus the contents of the accumulator and SDR are added together and placed in the accumulator . |
| 25 | The worst aspect of all , however , is the way in which poll tax penalties have been carried forward and retained in this council tax Bill . |
| 26 | In particular , the silver picture plates of the Late Antique , examples of which have been collected together and published by the late Professor Toynbee and by Kenneth Painter . |
| 27 | These are large scale losses and very visible , some have been costed individually and have , individually , cost companies huge amounts . |
| 28 | Fiction and drama , when they are done well and provide a convincing , realistic context in which serious crimes occur , can often enable us to imagine ourselves doing things which , in the abstract description , we would consider impossible . |
| 29 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 30 | In many modern machines the stress and strain values are collected digitally and processed by a small computer to give direct values of and tan — . |