Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a clause does not relieve the parties from the obligation to register a registrable sale agreement , it merely suspends the operation of the relevant restrictions until particulars of the agreement have been furnished to the OFT . |
| 2 | The bedrooms are furnished to a very high standard , all are en suite , one has a four-poster bed , another a half-tester . |
| 3 | The panels cast a dreamy light in the rooms — which are furnished in the most sparse manner with stone floors , white beds and the odd piece of exquisite antique glass . |
| 4 | Its attempt to make farmers pay for the pollution they caused had been overturned by the environmentally primitive MAFF . |
| 5 | However , even if 10 years ' worth of rights from an old company pension scheme are commuted to no more than two years ' worth in your new one , it could still be worth accepting , particularly if your new job is likely to produce rapid pay rises . |
| 6 | In consequence of its importance as a relic of local industrial archaeology , the mill has been listed as a building of architectural or historic interest ( Grade II ) , a status which has not been jeopardised by the very careful treatment of the building by its present owners in their continuing programme of conversion and conservation . |
| 7 | The aristocracy — ie. titled landowners — do still exist and have been joined by the very wealthy ( through ownership or investment ) : it has been reckoned that this 1% of adult population owns one-quarter of all the wealth in Britain . |
| 8 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 9 | The perceptual side of the Umwelt has received less attention than the motor aspect , the study of animal perception ( as opposed to sensory physiology or discriminative behaviour ) having been inhabited by the explicitly anti-mentalistic bias of behaviourism . |
| 10 | Paisley 's whole career has been distinguished by a finely developed sense of symbolism and an event like the imprisonment was not to be wasted . |
| 11 | You are drawing upon a more ancient and powerful source of memory than me , or Huxley , or the boys , his sons , Christian and Steven — and God alone knows what happened to them . ’ |
| 12 | With the passing of the FSA 1986 regulation has been placed on a far more formal rule-orientated basis than previously . |
| 13 | It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories . |
| 14 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |
| 15 | They also tend to remain positive for a very long time , if not indefinitely , unless the infection has been treated in the very early stages . |
| 16 | My — though not necessarily her — interpretation of this observation leads me to ask whether in fact the capacity to show LTP might not be a purely artefactual phenomenon , which occurs only in animals which have been reared in the highly restricted environment of a research laboratory ? |
| 17 | In these activities , the ‘ players ’ are joined by a very large number of other people and organisations , each seeking an audience for their comments : |
| 18 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 19 | It is especially useful if you are knitting with a very soft yarn which breaks easily or with a yarn which has no stretch . |
| 20 | The cheeses are matured in a specially constructed humid cellar for 2½–3 months , during which time they lose a further 225–325g/8–12oz in weight and develop a mould or rind beneath the muslin . |
| 21 | The chances are that her shock has been compounded by an unexpectedly extreme reaction . |
| 22 | The processor 's A , B , C , D , E , F , H , and L registers are initialised to the least significant words of A% , B% , C% , D% , E% , F% , H% , and L% respectively ( see also USR ) . |
| 23 | Prior to calling the subroutine , The processor 's A , B , C , D , E , F , H and L registers are initialised to the least significant words of A% , B% , C% , D% , E% , F% , H% and L% respectively ( see also CALL ) . |
| 24 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 25 | This suggests that such firms are reacting on a more ad hoc basis to pressure in the market , the report says . |
| 26 | It was built in 1960 and the original leather interior has been re-upholstered in a rather fetching magenta ( plum colour to you non-artistic types ) Dralon . |
| 27 | High-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping have been developed to a very high standard by BGS . |
| 28 | Regional geochemical studies , including high-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping , have been developed to a very high standard by the BGS . |
| 29 | It 's great to see how the prototype has been developed into a commercially viable design . |
| 30 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |