Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , British forces will be withdrawn once the territorial integrity of the island has been restored . |
| 2 | The upgrade path is simple and can be undertaken whenever the relevant skills have been learned . |
| 3 | Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them . |
| 4 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 5 | In chart terms the band were new , but in reality their roots can be traced back an incredible 15 years . |
| 6 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 7 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
| 8 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 10 | A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly onto your eyes . |
| 11 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 12 | In any case , the ideology of the RCC was that women should not be treated exactly the same as men : women are human beings , and therefore equal to men , but they are also more delicate , more beautiful and gentler — they are like flowers , and should not be compelled to be manlike and false to their nature . |
| 13 | ( b ) It should be treated exactly the same as any of your other three shifts . |
| 14 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
| 15 | There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service . |
| 16 | 7 This suit is not severely masculine — it consists of a shirt , tie and pale yellow jacket with fancy , scalloped lapels , and so could be considered merely a fashionable , feminine version of masculine dress . |
| 17 | On the back of each barrack room door was a plan of how our lockers should look : trousers , shirts , socks , pants , vests and everything else had to be sucked in a certain order , and folded exactly thirty-five centimetres square . |
| 18 | Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours . |
| 19 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 20 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 21 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 22 | The clauses under which Edward renounced his claim to the French throne and John renounced sovereignty over Aquitaine were excised from the treaty and embodied in a separate document which laid down that the renunciations were to be carried out no later than 1 November 1361 , and were to be conditional upon the transfers of territory agreed in the treaty being implemented by June 1361 . |
| 23 | Once any treatment has been completed , partial water changes should be carried out every three days on three consecutive occasions , before returning to fortnightly changes of about 20% , with water that must be as near as possible to that already in the aquarium , ( but hopefully that goes without saying these days ) . |
| 24 | From age 65 they well be carried out every 6 months . |
| 25 | Executions continue to be carried out an alarming rate in China , USA , Russia , Iraq , Iran and Nigeria . |
| 26 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 27 | She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system . |
| 28 | Elsewhere , however , known historical fords or bridge sites can be picked out every high summer when the crowfoot blooms — literally , living history . |
| 29 | The live set would feature the TARDIS , so by careful aligning of two camera positions and angles the two pictures on the output monitor could be made exactly the same , with only the TARDIS prop showing which one was which . |
| 30 | But if IBM faces another year or two of turmoil in the United States , its problems will be made all the worse by foreign woes . |