Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that pocket money increases in the north are outstripping those in the south , in a strange reversal of trends . |
| 2 | A much more likely explanation of Libet 's findings is simply that all experiences are delayed relative to the stimulus causing them , so that synchronous external events produce synchronous experiences . |
| 3 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 4 | Strange sounds are heard live over the loud speaker monitors , some times spoiling the recordings . |
| 5 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 6 | Meanwhile piles of brightly coloured resisters are proving irresistible to the four-year-old . |
| 7 | From the six potential exemplars three films were chosen of each junction , one low risk , one medium risk and one high risk , the three levels of exemplar risk are assigned relative to the junction mean again using the mean risk rating from Study 2 . |
| 8 | The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details . |
| 9 | As a result we are given one of the most blatant examples of a blonde floozie being added to a film purely for box-office considerations . |
| 10 | Here details are given both of the executive at the PR consultancy working on the account and the relevant executive at the client company . |
| 11 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 12 | In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . |
| 13 | Some are listed adjacent to the term to which they are to be applied and in the form in which they are to be applied in the main list . |
| 14 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 15 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 16 | Although there was an attempt to introduce some competition for BT , this has been limited due to the natural monopoly position of parts of the telecommunications industry . |
| 17 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 18 | To protect the double doors when they were open to allow the passage of vehicles , two large stones about fifteen inches square and three feet in height had been placed next to the brickwork by the pavement . |
| 19 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 20 | TEENAGE vandals are targeting one of the few leisure facilities in north Belfast . |
| 21 | Candidates who are admitted to study for the PhD , MLitt or MPhil are registered first under the designation of ‘ supervised postgraduate student ’ . |
| 22 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 23 | John Prescot has been given one of the key posts in the new shadow cabinet . |
| 24 | Biazon had been given much of the credit for the successful loyalist defence of Camp Aguinaldo during the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 25 | This section does not cover failure of public transport services caused by strike , riot or civil commotion in respect of which warning has been given prior to the commencement of departure from home . |
| 26 | Strike , riot or civil commotion in respect of which a warning has been given prior to the date this insurance is purchased . |
| 27 | The old program is deleted ( as if a NEW command had been given prior to the LOAD ) and all the dynamic variables are cleared . |
| 28 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 29 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 30 | The cast-iron bath continues the Victorian theme and has been painted pink on the outside to fit in with the rest of the decor . |