Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was coloured a garish blue , an obvious re-spraying job after massive areas of the body-work had been filled in after various collisions . |
| 2 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 3 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 4 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 5 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 6 | Colic , eczema , asthma , persistent runny nose , glue ear , headaches , migraine and even behavioural problems , have all been traced back to certain foods or food additives . |
| 7 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |
| 8 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 9 | Not only in P P G seven but as has been pointed out in other erm guidance notes such as four erm and three . |
| 10 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 11 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 12 | I am plunged back into robust adventures with my sturdy sea-horse . |
| 13 | The point of departure is the general valuation model that has been developed out of discounted cash flow ( DCF ) techniques . |
| 14 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 15 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 16 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 17 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 18 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 19 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 20 | Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps . |
| 21 | If large goals are broken down into small specified short-term tasks , a sense of purpose is created . |
| 22 | They are fully bio-degradable in a maximum of three days * , by which time all the active ingredients are broken down into natural harmless substances . |
| 23 | In order to cover this range of variation , the figures in table 3.13 are broken down into mandibular incisor digestion ( columns 13 ) , maxillary incisor digestion ( columns 4–6 ) , isolated incisor digestion ( columns 7–10 ) , and all these combined in columns 11 to 13 . |
| 24 | As these wastes are broken down by physical , chemical , and bacterial action , they gradually form ‘ humus ’ , a highly important binding factor in the formation of stable soil crumbs or tilth and in the transformation of minerals into soluble plant nutrients . |
| 25 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 26 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 27 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 28 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 29 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 30 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |