Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 2 | But , besides this we found those who had not been stopped etc. at all still reflected the overall differences between races — Blacks being least favourable , Asians most favourable , with Whites being sometimes closer to Blacks and sometimes closer to Asians . |
| 3 | Be careful , he warned , when buying bulbs such as cyclamen — some rarer varieties are gathered indiscriminately from certain parts of the Mediterranean and Turkey area and are in danger of disappearing . |
| 4 | The data are gathered mainly by intensive interviewing and observation of systems and management staff in ten organisations from the private and public sectors . |
| 5 | All four bedrooms have en suite facilities and are furnished individually with great care , the prettiest is perhaps the Waterwitch room , with its low bay window looking over the garden . |
| 6 | Final output targets are determined at the outset and input requirements are calculated precisely for each stage of manufacturing , including those bought from outside subcontractors . |
| 7 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 8 | During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another . |
| 9 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 10 | As Kaysen notes , ‘ [ w ] here new plants are placed both in regional terms and in relation to existing centers of population affects the balance of regional development and the character of urban and suburban growth ’ . |
| 11 | The domes are constructed on high drums but are hidden externally by steep conical , stone roofs . |
| 12 | The derivation of this is given in statistics textbooks and practical examples of its application , and an assessment of the closeness of the approximation , are given later in this chapter ( see p. 169 ) . |
| 13 | More examples of arguments along these lines are given later in this chapter . |
| 14 | Fuller details are given later in this Journal . |
| 15 | The Treasurer reported that the Society 's funds are in a healthy state , again the details are given later in this Journal . |
| 16 | Data from these vehicles are given freely to other nations in a global system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 17 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
| 18 | This could be in the form of simple notes , but a better way is to compile a revised shot list in which the details are given together with other editing information ( eg ‘ delete first six seconds ’ ) to help you set up the edit-points quickly . |
| 19 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 20 | Orthographically irregular words are pronounced more slowly than regular words ( Baron and Strawson , 1976 ; Underwood and Bargh , 1982 ) , indicating that they are treated differently in some way when they are read . |
| 21 | The incidence of heart failure among patients who are treated effectively with thrombolytic agents is probably lower than among those patients who are not treated . |
| 22 | Indeed , they are treated more as grown-up students than as children to be spoon-fed , and this in almost every case has a good effect both on the work produced and on their motivation . |
| 23 | This is always the case unless the purchase of equipment and other costs are undertaken privately by one or more members of the band . |
| 24 | Poems from the ‘ April Fifth ’ movement of 1976 had been posted there during 1978 . |
| 25 | Mary Henderson , Greek by birth , had first come across Laura Ashley in Paris when she and her husband had been posted there in 1975 . |
| 26 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 27 | It is , therefore , a site of some strategic significance in any military context , a fact which has been recognized continuously since Roman times , when , at least under Agricola if not before , a fort was established here . |
| 28 | The authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina ( whose independence , proclaimed in March — see p. 38832 — had been recognized widely since early April — -see pp. 38848-49 ) repeatedly requested foreign military aid and there were warnings that a flood of refugees , both Moslems and ethnic Croats , could pose a serious problem for neighbouring countries . |
| 29 | Among the canonist collectors and commentators at Bologna ( and probably also in Rome from time to time ) were the Englishmen , Gilbert and Alan , whose importance in canon law scholarship has been recognized only in recent years . |
| 30 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |