Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lions scrum was consistently wheeled , but they put their act together twice in the 21st and 30th minutes , a pushover try being prevented illegally and the referee awarding the Lions a penalty try that Hastings converted . |
| 2 | First , the safety and soundness of a financial institution ( and the financial system generally ) may be put in jeopardy ; and secondly , those who are consumers of financial services risk being treated unfairly because of the increased likelihood that conflict of interest situations will be abused . |
| 3 | Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments . |
| 4 | I 've been called worse than that round here . |
| 5 | Children leaving home because they 've been abused physically or sexually erm or verbally erm the breakdown in the quality of family life has also got something to do with all this business and that has got to be addressed as well , and money wo n't change that . |
| 6 | I almost feel I 've been sent here so they can teach me a lesson about life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You saw her just now and you 've been engaged less than twenty-four hours ! |
| 9 | I think they 've been discussed previously and I think the arguments for refusal are very clear cut . |
| 10 | And learning together as we 've been reminded more than once than this morning engages us all irrespective of age , irrespective of experience it engages everyone and it 's worth emphasising that the quality of learning does not depend upon the size of a congregation ! |
| 11 | I 'm afraid we ca n't help you at the moment — we 've been told simply that Mr. Andrew is away from the office . |
| 12 | ‘ So I 've been told often and oft , ’ and he gave a sigh . |
| 13 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 14 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The contradictions in Belsey 's text have been examined sharply and at some length by Patrick Parrinder . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Confined to West Africa , these species of shrews have been persecuted locally because of their strange internal armour . |
| 19 | Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union . |
| 20 | In addition , small group music lessons have been arranged separately and are being given mostly by student-trainers . |
| 21 | These are large scale losses and very visible , some have been costed individually and have , individually , cost companies huge amounts . |
| 22 | Many of the larger systems have been mapped meticulously and show an intricate pattern of passages , often crossing at different levels and branching in all directions in weird disarray . |
| 23 | ‘ The security requirements for those holding any kind of firearm have been increased considerably and these are rigorously enforced by the police . |
| 24 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 25 | Young graduates over the years have been sent far and wide in search of that elusive first job . |
| 26 | It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets . |
| 27 | We 'll kee got to keep on getting it in proportion that ninety nine percent of them have been done right and that 's as to the seven hundred tests in out of four point five billion , is very small numbers indeed so the vast majority of women can be reassured . |
| 28 | It is easy to believe this story , and sadly expertise in such design , principles and skills , devised in our country , have been neglected here and instead developed abroad to give commercial advantage to other nations . |
| 29 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 30 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |