Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 3 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 4 | To start with , imagine you are given just the physical outline of adults of several species . |
| 5 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 6 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 7 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 8 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 9 | By the same token they are producing just the right level of output , . |
| 10 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 11 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 12 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 13 | * South Korea and Russia are to carry out a joint survey to assess the damage caused by Soviet dumping of radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan . |
| 14 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 15 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 16 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 17 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 18 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 19 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 20 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 21 | As per our telephone conversations of last Friday and today , I am returning herewith the faulty copy of Xtree Gold which we received from you last week . |
| 22 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 23 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 24 | The deep divisions which exist between people and the dreadful atrocities in so many parts of our world , the ethnic hatred , religious fanaticism , and racial strife are tearing apart the human family . |
| 25 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 26 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 27 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 28 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 29 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 30 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |