Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pits have been filled in and tips levelled to form the ubiquitous British , urban , flat landscape of close-mown turf and lollipop trees . |
| 2 | It also has a common interest with the health authority in seeing people are placed appropriately and beds are not clogged up . |
| 3 | Now that the full complement of introns in the ancestral triose phosphate isomerase gene has been mapped , he has been able to show that they are placed so that amino acids near each other in the protein 's structure are encoded wherever possible by the same exon , bolstering the idea that the original form of the gene contained a full complement of introns and was produced by exon shuffling . |
| 4 | It had been intended lightly but Edward was not amused . |
| 5 | Initial nominations and appointments are listed below and members are invited to make further nominations to fill vacancies where indicated . |
| 6 | The letter had been ripped open so Dexter drew out the note within , a sheet torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 7 | May I draw to my hon. Friend 's attention a report in the Sunday Express pointing out that paramilitaries convicted of bombing and murder are sheltering in the Republic are drawing more than £2 million per week in dole money and social security , paid for by the British taxpayer , while many would face reconviction if they returned to Ulster ? |
| 8 | These advances in molecular genetics mean that by using a combination of haplotype and mutation analysis prenatal diagnosis is now possible in the great majority of couples who already have a child with phenylketonuria , although this has been undertaken infrequently because paediatricians and parents see early treated children as ‘ healthy . ’ |
| 9 | It had been placed there when Mr Blakey had finished in the garden . |
| 10 | Mrs Seale , long departed after her disgrace over losing Dinah years back , had been replaced by a dresser who was less vigilant , and the Chinese puzzle of the dressing-rooms had , in the days of the departed Mrs Asshe , been altered so that admirers could come and go . |
| 11 | It has also been pointed out that dinosaur fossils have been found at quite high latitudes , hinting again at endothermy , since no reptile can survive in the cooler climates beyond the equatorial regions . |
| 12 | It has been pointed out that investors are primarily motivated to invest in a company 's shares on the basis of the company 's likely profitability ; not whether the management engage in insider dealing . |
| 13 | The text does , however , refer to a rescript , and it has been pointed out that oddities in the structure and language may be due to incorporating that . |
| 14 | It has already been pointed out that family continuity , conjugal status , and marital affiliations can be determined by an informed examination of armorial achievements . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out that incense was given to Jesus at his birth , and perfume poured over him to prepare him for his death . |
| 16 | Recently , however , it has been pointed out that mansi absi were often registered as owing dues , which were always in cash rather than labour services . |
| 17 | ( It has been pointed out that Governments tend to speak of ‘ subsidising railways ’ and ‘ investing in roads ’ — which shows a clear difference of attitude . ) |
| 18 | It is the banks that are benefitting handsomely whilst economies as a whole stagnate in both North and South . |
| 19 | In recent years , the obituaries have been pencilled in as Liverpool have brought in younger strike partners . |
| 20 | • Complex computer-based games have been developed so that scores for manipulative skill , decision-taking , vigilance , etc. can all be calculated as the game proceeds . |
| 21 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 22 | Suggestions following each heading are intended merely as indications of the scope of the topic , and are not of course exhaustive . |
| 23 | David Nicholson says his yard is a fantastic place … all the horses and all the staff are more relaxed because there 's no roads to worry about and there 's plenty of room for them to roam … the horses are eating more and training hard |
| 24 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 25 | So the sort of things that are happening are happening everywhere and community care I think could be probably one of the areas that I could talk about at some length if you wanted to later on . |
| 26 | In such a contest everything will hinge on the state of the economy and whether Major and his team are trusted more than Neil Kinnock and his . |
| 27 | LIFESPAN determines which processes take place at the terminal and which are carried out as background activities , largely depending on the time they will take to complete . |
| 28 | Their experiments are designed accordingly and tasks selected and modified until the dissociations emerge . |
| 29 | This is why all our insurance policies are designed so that premiums are payable monthly . |
| 30 | In the room each bit of furniture seemed to be too far away from the others , as if they had been dropped there as markers , but the space was eroding them . |