Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | The external auditor should review the work of the internal audit staff to determine their effectiveness in assisting management to improve the quality of information that is necessary if they are to monitor satisfactorily the efficiency and effectiveness of the programmes under their charge . |
| 3 | A major contribution of the discipline has been to emphasise how the identification and designation of a particular phenomenon or pattern of behaviour as a ‘ social problem ’ is not an unambiguous matter , but a process of social definition . |
| 4 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 5 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 6 | There is extensive empirical evidence to show that if people who are leaving are treated well the quality of the service or product is maintained . |
| 7 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 8 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 9 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 10 | What is a good average for two-colour work , will be hopelessly wrong for four-colour , because we are knitting double the number of rows to obtain the correct pattern , so the additional rows knitted will change the measurement of 40 rows in millimetres . |
| 11 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 12 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 13 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 14 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 15 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 16 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 17 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 18 | In fact there is clear evidence that the meandering creeks that wander across the flats are eating away the sediment again soon after it is deposited ( plate 5.1 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 20 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 21 | The eggs need to be well protected since they are carried on the wind , continually exposed to the sun 's fierce rays , and blown across the sand . |
| 22 | It bursts at internals to release into the atmosphere an enormous number of rusty-red spores which are carried on the breeze to germinate in distant damp timber , starting the process afresh . |
| 23 | The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless . |
| 24 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 25 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 26 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 27 | If other variables , such as blood pressure response , exercise duration and induced ventricular ectopics or arrhythmias , are included then the value of the test as a prognostic indicator increases markedly . |
| 28 | If two values of probability density are nominated then the area they define under the curve is the probability that any item drawn from the sample will lie between them . |
| 29 | If two values of probability density are nominated then the area they define under the curve is the probability that any item drawn from the sample will lie between them . |
| 30 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |