Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 3 | To start with , imagine you are given just the physical outline of adults of several species . |
| 4 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 5 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 6 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 7 | And they are treated exactly the same as anybody else on the Tour . |
| 8 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 9 | By the same token they are producing just the right level of output , . |
| 10 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 11 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 12 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 13 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
| 14 | As per our telephone conversations of last Friday and today , I am returning herewith the faulty copy of Xtree Gold which we received from you last week . |
| 15 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 16 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 17 | The deep divisions which exist between people and the dreadful atrocities in so many parts of our world , the ethnic hatred , religious fanaticism , and racial strife are tearing apart the human family . |
| 18 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 19 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 20 | Let us further assume that the charge distribution is uniform and denote the charge per unit length by pl ( we are defining thereby a linear charge density of dimension coulomb per metre ) . |
| 21 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 22 | They are hiring just the right number of workers , , that the calculus of profit maximization dictates . |
| 23 | And you 've put a lot of flower pots up and down Magdalen Road , well apparently those flower pots and the changes you 've made there , some of them very ill-advised , are costing about a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 24 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 25 | The groups are urging both the Scottish Office and Department of the Environment to match their offer . |
| 26 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 27 | Is there anything that 's fundamental changed with I mean we 're using exactly the same formulation . |
| 28 | Is the one you 're using now an old one ? |
| 29 | You 're becoming quite a leading man in this crew , George Merry . |
| 30 | Er , we 're getting quite a few calls on that subject now , John from Erith , good morning to you John . |