Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prison had been destroyed by fire previously , and then rebuilt in 1780 , only to be badly damaged the same year by the Gordon Riots . |
| 2 | Uncovering a breach of Rule 28 will not be easy given the complex nature of insider dealing transactions . |
| 3 | Until the microstructure of ultra-drawn polymers can be unequivocally revealed no final answers can be made about the validity of the various models . |
| 4 | I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned . |
| 5 | The turnpikes can be reasonably considered the leading edge of road improvement , although at no time did ordinary roads not outnumber them by five to one . |
| 6 | ‘ We seem to be automatically tagged a physical side . |
| 7 | Household duties provide plenty of bending and stretching , which can be consciously made the most of . |
| 8 | It 's an indication that they are working on it and what may seem to be an accepted fact one day can be vehemently denied the next as the bereaved person comes to terms with the loss . |
| 9 | Cellars sprouting fungus from every dripping crevice , where those who could not even afford a place on an upstairs mattress paid a penny to sleep standing up like horses , leaning against a rope which would be simply untied the next morning when the landlord considered they had slept long enough . |
| 10 | It is difficult to see how it could be otherwise given a political system dominated by appointment prerogatives and Moscow connections , rather than accountability to social forces with a direct stake in policy issues . |
| 11 | Neither Leland nor Camden has much to say about industry in England ; and there was nothing that could be specifically called an industrial landscape . |