Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] the [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| 1 | Finally , British forces will be withdrawn once the territorial integrity of the island has been restored .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 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 7 | A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly onto your eyes . |
| 8 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( b ) It should be treated exactly the same as any of your other three shifts . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the incremental project can be accepted then the logical conclusion is to accept Project D in the first instance . |
| 20 | By simple calculation , it can be seen why the luckless Tretyakov needs the $15 million . |
| 21 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 22 | They spend so much time immersed in unglamorous stuff — transient and trivial details that vanish and reappear to be done again the next moment . |
| 23 | Many women say cleaning is boring : you do it one day and there it is to be done again the next . |
| 24 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 25 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 26 | IN THE light of the recent debate on defence in the House of Commons , perhaps now is a good time for the people of Darlington to be told where the prospective Labour candidate stands on the issue of nuclear disarmament . |
| 27 | After the show , Michael Codron ordered the number to be performed exactly the same way for every performance thereafter . |
| 28 | For that reason , services must be bought wherever the best deal can be obtained . |
| 29 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 30 | If eight levels of each colour can be shown then the total displayable colours number 2 8 or 256 . |