Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
2 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
3 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
4 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
5 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
6 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
7 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
8 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
9 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
10 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
11 | You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void . |
12 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
13 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
14 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
15 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
16 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
17 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
18 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
19 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
20 | 6/Highlights are masked out while areas are filled in with a thin wash . |
21 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
22 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
23 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
24 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
25 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
26 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
27 | Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time . |
28 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
29 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
30 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |