Example sentences of "be [verb] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether this book contains a wealth of information and I doubt whether it will be long before physicians are heard expounding the benefit of Liu Ye for tuberculosis , Jia Zhu Tao for its cardiotonic effects , Man Tao Luo as a general anaesthetic , or Yin Chen to treat hepatitis . |
| 2 | Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform . |
| 3 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 4 | Graphics-based applications are developed using the company 's C-Scape screen handler , which includes application programming interfaces for running Windows 3 , Motif or Open Look at the front-end . |
| 5 | Since the demise of the punch-card system for entering commands this has normally been undertaken using a keyboard and a screen driven by a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or liquid crystal display ( LCD ) , although voice entry of data and touch screens have also been used . |
| 6 | The cleaning posts are to go following a fall in revenue of three hundred thousand pounds and a fundamental review of domestic services . |
| 7 | According to the NRA , the net present value of the damage that would be caused by flooding , and hence the benefit accruing , has been calculated using a number of variables , and generally lies between £41 million and £69 million . |
| 8 | Since April 1988 the size of the budget for each school has been calculated using a formula ( based mainly on age-weighted pupil units ) rather than the use of historical costs . |
| 9 | Paragraph 5 of the rule was directed not only at enforcement of a judgment in favour of a claimant who had obtained judgment in his favour but also at preventing , by means of the principle of res judicata , relitigation of the same case by a person who was properly represented by a claimant against whom judgment had been given dismissing the claim , whether that person tried to pursue his claim against a named defendant sued in his own right only , or against a named defendant sued both personally and as a representative of a class , or against a member of that class . |
| 10 | Those who know , think it a matter without interest , so that again and again in my enquiries , when some touch of colour has been given illuminating the ways of life among the people who are above the need for help , it has been cut short by a semi-apology : ‘ But that is not what you want to know about ’ … |
| 11 | The week of 17–24 October has been designated Helping the Earth Week . |
| 12 | What users see on their machines is trending towards Graphical User Interfaces ( GUIs ) , where icons representing programs , and pull-down menus within programs , are manipulated using a mouse . |
| 13 | The little man roared with laughter and it evidently pleased him for he went about afterwards telling the Cabinet that ’ he had been caught telling the truth ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Karl had been caught travelling the Underground without a ticket . |
| 15 | Like some naughty child who 's been caught playing a prank she just kept her head low , staring at the floor . |
| 16 | Only with great care , of course , because you know that if you are caught breaking the limit by the police , the consequences will be unpleasant — a summons , a court case , a fine , perhaps an endorsement . |
| 17 | Dammit , I 've been parked watching the entrance since six ! ’ |
| 18 | Instead , home records are located using the bucket index and overflow records via the home bucket and a tag . |
| 19 | These were customer built display units belonging to Martin & Frost , each requiring samples of a special size , all of which have been prepared using the computer p.o.s . |
| 20 | Further to your response to our advertisement in [ publication of date ] /telephone conversation with [ person ] of this office , I can advise you that a confidential Information memorandum has been prepared covering the business of [ Name Limited ] and that our client has agreed to provide you with a copy in exchange for asigned undertaking of confidentiality . |
| 21 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 22 | These are done using the formula Wealth 1 — Wealth 0 as illustrated in the chapter as this is the only way of calculating profit to which the students have been exposed to date . |
| 23 | Then , in a dream-like sequence at the end of the first half , they are seen raiding the nursery at Rossillion , where they proceed to plunge their swords into a defenceless rocking-horse . |
| 24 | Anne and John are seen holding the cheque watched by ( from left ) Donna Smith , Lisa Erentz , Joan Boggan , Mary Lamb , Therese O'Donnell and Sheila Cole . |
| 25 | If further SSRs are written referencing the product once the issue is complete , then these should be distributed to all clients who have received the product . |
| 26 | As hedgerows become rarer , voles have fewer places to live , and as more roads are built crisscrossing the countryside , they stand more risk of being killed by passing cars . |
| 27 | By a series of Acts ranging from 1907 to 1960 exceptions had already been made permitting a man to marry his deceased or divorced wife 's sister or half-sister , his niece by marriage or his aunt by marriage ; and a woman may marry her deceased or divorced husband 's brother or half-brother . |
| 28 | However , the layout of components and the configuration of a printed circuit board may be protected by copyright through any drawings which have been made indicating the layout or by the design right . |
| 29 | When duty orders had been made covering the whole of Great Britain , the ‘ second appointed day ’ ( or SAD Day as critics dubbed it ) could be brought in . |
| 30 | If the Certificate of Search discloses that a resolution has been made adopting the provisions of the Clean Air Act , that 's an advantage to a buyer as a measure of protection against pollution . |