Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are gathered together from all over the retina into a single bundle , which is the optic nerve for that eye . |
| 2 | At this time of day , however , when law and equity have been joined together for over 70 years , principles must be reconsidered in the light of their combined effect . |
| 3 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 4 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
| 5 | The tremendous density is due to the fact that all the parts of the atoms are crushed together with almost no waste of space . |
| 6 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 7 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 8 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 9 | It has already been pointed out above how Intasun had joined with Ramada to manage its new London hotel interests . |
| 10 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 11 | erm package and it has been developed now to quite , quite a high level of sophistication |
| 12 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 13 | The houses are arranged around at least one courtyard , so most rooms have windows on two or three sides , and therefore are light and airy . |
| 14 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 15 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 16 | ‘ He would have been cheering loudest out there . ’ |
| 17 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 18 | A compliant " interparliamentary crisis commission " had been formed earlier by upwards of two dozen politicians hostile to Aristide , to confer a spurious constitutional legitimacy to the coup . |
| 19 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 20 | The forecasts for earnings per share this year and in 1994 have been revised upwards to just under 15% . |
| 21 | However in the twentieth century this principle has been modified somewhat through both statutory and case law , by introducing the principle that a will should make fair provision for people who have had certain types of relationship with the deceased , mostly but not exclusively kin ( Cretney , 1984 , ch. 23 ; Green , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | MOTORISTS are advised to avoid Bayswater Road , Wallasey , where it passes over the access slip road to Leasowe Road , while road works are carried out from today . |
| 23 | This method of organisation occurs when similar activities are carried out in widely different locations . |
| 24 | In the Middle East and Latin American countries , business discussions are carried out in very close proximity , involving physical contact , which many Western salespeople find strange . |
| 25 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 26 | The examinations , which are purely oral , are carried out by specially trained native speakers . |
| 27 | Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 29 | Stuart 's been bleating on about how I changed my name , has n't he ? |
| 30 | From later Marxists comes the idea that individuals ' daily lives are caught up in quite distinct local forms of social relation . |