Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its weaving tradition can be traced back several millennia , and there are a number of pile carpets dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries still in existence today . |
| 2 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 3 | The contract for the £4.5m. worth of repairs is due to be given out this month and be completed by the winter of 1993/4 . |
| 4 | The principal object of the formation of a service company will be to carry out administrative functions concerned with the running of the practice — eg the employment of staff , hiring premises , furniture and equipment and general maintenance . |
| 5 | The routine sheets should be filled in each week or whenever the weight is increased . |
| 6 | It does not follow that Parliament had the same intention when , whatever criteria are adopted , all spaces in the school will be filled in any event . |
| 7 | Staff at Cardiff-based Rimer-Alco volunteered to work over the bank holiday to prepare special oxygen machines to be flown out next week . |
| 8 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 9 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 10 | Julie Oldfield ( from the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ) phoned : I have faxed her a copy of Dinamation 's letter for information and confirmed shoot times at 1630 to 1730 on Wednesday ; she was worried about the amount of equipment you might be bringing in 4 vehicles — you said you would have a camera and one light . |
| 11 | The Army will be bringing in 1,400 men and women . |
| 12 | The Steen business had to be sorted out that evening . |
| 13 | A 45m or 50m rope should be carried on all climbs , even though only short sections are used when moving together . |
| 14 | The white man 's burden had to be carried on strong backs . |
| 15 | THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed . |
| 16 | Tests must be carried out eight hours after the microwave 's last use . |
| 17 | Because of the hammering the great Bugattis and the like gave Brooklands during the summer months , extensive repairs had to be carried out each winter . |
| 18 | Any rigid scheme that means exact amounts of specific exercise must be carried out each day is usually doomed to failure . |
| 19 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 20 | The test can be carried out any time of day — there is no need to use the first morning urine — and its results are not affected by medicines such as pain relievers , antibiotics or the contraceptive pill . |
| 21 | Division by two can be carried out any number o times by using more bistables . |
| 22 | If they are re-elected , is there any chance that such proposals will be carried out this time ? |
| 23 | Two continuously cored boreholes drilled through the Gault and adjacent formations at Arlesey in Bedfordshire and Burwell in Cambridgeshire have been logged geologically geotechnical analysis of the core will be carried out next year . |
| 24 | The dominance reduction programme was set for about a four week period , although many of the suggestion do have to be carried out longer term — or even permanently — for best results with pairs of fighting male dogs . |
| 25 | This can be carried out last thing at night , once the puppy has been outside to relieve itself . |
| 26 | Permission is here conceived as existing already , even though that which is permitted might be carried out ten years from now , or never . |
| 27 | They may also be carried back one year in most circumstances . |
| 28 | Instead of closing the door o to its union supporters , Labour should be opening up new ways in . |
| 29 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 30 | It will be gearing up this year , but is unlikely to repeat the 1991 rights issue . |