Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electricity charges are to go up by at least 5.8 per cent from April 1st . |
| 2 | A first summit attempt by selected climbers has been pencilled in for between Friday and next Monday . |
| 3 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 4 | They had been caught up with at Dornock , east of Annan , on the shore of the Solway , by a fast-riding English host under Sir Anthony de Lucy of Cockermouth , who had crossed the shallow firth at lowest tide by the temporarily dried-out Knockeross sands , from Bowness in Cumberland . |
| 5 | Until that moment Evelyn had not realized exactly what had taken place when she had been let down from over the machine . |
| 6 | As the language of the Vedic scriptures , Sanskrit has always been looked down upon by tradition as the language of the divine . |
| 7 | Fei Yen had been looking up from beneath her lashes , her pose the very image of demure , obedient womanhood . |
| 8 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 9 | Laboratory studies have been made up to about 10 6 bars , at which pressures molecular hydrogen is still liquid even at 170 K. However , such pressures are encountered at depths of only a few 1000 km below the clouds , and therefore theoretical studies have to be used to obtain the phase-diagram at greater pressures . |
| 10 | The daylight fixtures are going too , I understand that Yorkshire are bowing out after at least 30 years of playing Ulster every season . |
| 11 | There have been recurring attempts by the police service since World War II to develop alternative means of entry and promotion to the traditional progression from the ranks , which have always been met by by by bitter reference to the schemes of the 1930s . |
| 12 | They are made up of between six and 12 Higher National Unit credits . |
| 13 | Me and Bill , he 's dead we had an ajax come through to and go on to Ireland , to go back to Dublin , yeah , they 're going back to with the plane . |
| 14 | According to Tony we 're going out of at the end of the month . |
| 15 | The next topic we 're moving on to in a way w is is erm speaking in terms of time , precedes the work of the feature analysis , the feature analysists . |
| 16 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 17 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 18 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 19 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 20 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 21 | Of course I accept that ruling entirely Mr Deputy Speaker but the point I was trying to make , I am going to give the speech very briefly indeed I do assure you , is that if you 're trying to assess the numbers er and the correctness of the numbers that are being er er going to vote for and indeed the boundaries associated with those numbers , it 's a perfectly I would have thought , fair question to ask oneself as they go off er from us as to what they are going off in to er and I I do assure you Mr Deputy Speake , I do n't plan to speak more than two minutes , two to three minutes on this matter , I do hope that you will allow me just to make a very brief point on this . |
| 22 | Its members undertake to repair or service 80 per cent of all appliances they are called out to within three working days . |
| 23 | If you sometimes wish you had eyes in the back of your head to see exactly what the children are getting up to in the back of the car , you 'll be pleased to hear about The Lane Changer from Automotive . |
| 24 | A flower-print dress was draped across the back of the chair , and there was a brown battered suitcase on the floor at her feet , which looked as if it had been pulled out from beneath the bed . |
| 25 | The Golden Girls are coming on in about what ? |
| 26 | But now the naturists are coming out of from behind the bushes in growing numbers . |
| 27 | It used to be very covert but now we are coming out from behind the bushes . ’ |
| 28 | We sat on the bank , dejected , wondering what we would have to do to find ‘ proper ’ trout fishing , such as we had been brought up with in our native land . |
| 29 | In the publicity department James Burkinshaw has joined from the Stockton Press in New York as publicity manager , Fi Henderson has been promoted publicity officer , and promotions and marketing officer Kerry Chambler has been brought in from within Alan Sutton . |
| 30 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |