Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The data are gathered mainly by intensive interviewing and observation of systems and management staff in ten organisations from the private and public sectors .
3 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 .
4 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 ’ .
5 The domes are constructed on high drums but are hidden externally by steep conical , stone roofs .
6 Data from these vehicles are given freely to other nations in a global system coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The main conclusions are developed below under separate headings .
14 The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended .
15 A number of public sector pay awards have been treated leniently through supplementary estimates being granted , or have even been placed outside the limits .
16 These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 .
17 The republics are to go ahead with economic-reform plans of their own on the basis of the now changing programme .
18 This is important , because clean-up measures are expensive , and funds are limited even in rich countries .
19 These courses are taught jointly with Medical Microbiology and Biochemistry respectively .
20 This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) .
21 Its report shows that some 26m tonnes of plastics ( excluding textile fibres ) are consumed annually in Western Europe , with the EC accounting for about 23m tonnes .
22 Many British readers will not feel such change directly if they are students from a more prosperous area ( as is likely since higher education places are filled largely from non-manual social groups ) .
23 Various derivatives of the BCG matrix have been developed both by other consultancy firms and by large companies such as Shell , but a description of just one of these will suffice .
24 Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems .
25 In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level .
26 It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs .
27 The Primary Enterprise Pack — This support pack has been developed especially for primary school teachers by the Polytechnic of North London .
28 If the catapult is destroyed , or if the catapult and crew are broken either in hand-to-hand combat or as a result of a psychology test , then the catapult is removed from the game .
29 How many goals have been given away with faulty back passes ?
30 Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive .
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