Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resolution authorising the purchase will not be effective if the shareholder proposed to be bought out votes in respect of the resolution and the resolution would not have been passed if he had not done so ( s164(5) ) . |
| 2 | Planning Ward v Secretary of State for the Environment ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls , Staughton LJJ ) ; 25 Sept 1989 A private garden was capable of being an ‘ open space ’ and something that should be taken into account when deciding whether a development proposed to be carried out in a conservation area would preserve or enhance the area within s 277 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 , as substituted , and of Circular No 8 of 1987 issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 4 | THOMAS PENNANT in his " Tour in Scotland " 1772 writes , " A present was made me of a clach clun ceilach , or cock-knee stone , believed to be obtained out of that part of the bird ; but I have unluckily forgotten its virtues . |
| 5 | A train was blown up in Cambodia 's Battambang province in the latest of a series of attacks believed to be carried out by Khmer Rouge guerrillas . |
| 6 | Obviously , they deserved to be beaten out of sight , but since the weather had looked almost certain to save them if someone could have stayed there , the collapse became even more abject . |
| 7 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 8 | Perhaps this operation would be the last , perhaps his Western masters would finally decide that the old workhorse had given his best and deserved to be put out in rich pastures . |
| 9 | He deserved to be taken down a peg or two . |
| 10 | But we have to examine his other main passion : creative drama , as it came to be called round about this time . |
| 11 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 12 | The puzzling thing to me is how a man like Stavanger ever came to be mixed up with him . " |
| 13 | It would certainly explain how you came to be washed up in Seal Haven . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd been a social worker , then a deputy director of social services — he 'd been fired after the famous ‘ babyswap ’ scandal , but that was how he came to be taken up by FAMILY . |
| 15 | The very word ‘ teaching ’ came to be looked on with disfavour , implying , as it did , an unacceptable de-haut-en-bas presumption with regard to the teacher 's role . |
| 16 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 17 | The possibility of an increase in Japanese interest rates was raised , but seemed to be ruled out for the present by the Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , in a statement made after his return to Tokyo . |
| 18 | It seemed to be locked on to some invisible beam that was projecting from out of June 's vagina . |
| 19 | The hands on the office clock seemed to be weighted down . |
| 20 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 21 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’ |
| 22 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses . |
| 23 | Any commercial vans or lorries seemed to be made out of what was originally private cars . |
| 24 | The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction . |
| 25 | The truth of the adage that the All Blacks might be vulnerable ‘ going back ’ seemed to be borne out when Vinnie Cunningham 's neat chip over the line and the New Zealand defence looking anything but efficient . |
| 26 | This was because , despite its deficiencies in terms of theory , it seemed to be borne out so well by observation . |
| 27 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 28 | Above all , Marx 's analysis seemed to be borne out by reality , by developments both in the West , with the rapid rise of the German Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , and in Russia itself . |
| 29 | The dreadful genteelism for ‘ hard up ’ seemed to be wrung out of her . |
| 30 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |