Example sentences of "and be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Price Waterhouse and now Touche Ross have dallied with the Deloitte domestic partnership and been given the cold shoulder . |
| 2 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 3 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 4 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 5 | Hunters are cashing in on this shortage and expense of whale meat , and are providing the Japanese market with a more affordable substitute of dolphin flesh . |
| 6 | It also ensures that all outcomes are covered by the assessments and are given the right emphasis , whether the assessment is knowledge-based or practical , achieved in the workplace or in a classroom . |
| 7 | They scrounge wiring , plasterboard , wood , all kinds of building materials from local firms and are rebuilding the charred structure . |
| 8 | They want instant results and are asking the impossible . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What I do is follow the money and make sure the people who are spending it on my behalf are actually the right sort of people , and are doing the right sort of job . ’ |
| 10 | Campaigning groups have served to shine a spotlight on many of the world 's diminishing rainforests and are making the guilty West sit up and take note . |
| 11 | Grumman TBM-3E Avenger N6827C and Tora Tora film Zeke /Harvard IV N15798 have been sold to Tim Wallis/Alpine Fighter Collection in New Zealand , and are making the long journey ‘ down under ’ by sea . |
| 12 | In Avondale Road , the Wilcox boys have risen from their beds at last and are making the most of their unsupervised occupancy of the house . |
| 13 | We 've become better at making money in sluggish trading conditions and are making the most of the patchy recovery we 've seen in some of our markets . |
| 14 | Many of these are now professionally translated and produced and are supplanting the pirated , crudely photocopied sex books and pamphlets that appeared in the latter part of Gorbachev 's rule . |
| 15 | However not much promotion was necessary in Eleanor 's case , ‘ I love Scotland and am enjoying the relaxed pace of life in Edinburgh ’ . |
| 16 | Ma'am , I have been reading my Bible and am left in no doubt that I have sinned and am paying the just penalty for sin and I repent strongly but to no avail as yet . |
| 17 | This is because we will commence knitting with the carriages at the right and be knitting the first row of background colour to the left . |
| 18 | It would save her , and be doing the honourable , Christian thing . |
| 19 | We now just wish to be left in peace to live our own lives and be afforded the same respect as any other family in Passfield . |
| 20 | 42% said they were actively doing something to ‘ avoid getting TB ’ and were asked the open-ended question ‘ what are you doing to avoid getting TB ? ’ . |
| 21 | I traced the problem to the fixing rivets inside the wheel rims which had rusted badly and were puncturing the inner tubes of the 7,50 x 16 Avon Rangers . |
| 22 | His parents then called from the USA and were given the false impression that British Consul staff were co-ordinating the search , when they actually had no regular contact with the Spanish authorities involved . |
| 23 | In 1901 , encouraged by the resurgence of peasant unrest , several local groups combined to form the Socialist Revolutionary ( SR ) Party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 24 | Several local groups came together in 1901 to form the SR party , and were joined the following year by the émigré Agrarian Socialist League . |
| 25 | They took along a box of wine they bought between them , and were drinking the red vin de table from plastic half-pint glasses . |
| 26 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 27 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 28 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |
| 29 | The Turks had invaded the Aden Protectorate from the Yemen and were fighting the British forces not far away at Lahej . |
| 30 | In the 1630s the two were convicted of breaking the newly enforced forest laws , by the alleged theft of wood ( to make charcoal ) and were fined the huge sum of £59,000 , eventually reduced to £12,000 . |