Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to costs if proceedings are wrongly brought in High Court — see above . |
| 2 | Seldom has a team been so fired up prior to a major match , due largely to the pompous comments of Tipperary manager Babs Keating , who should have known better . |
| 3 | The two main additional floors are largely carried on new masonry crosswalls which are , in turn , carried on their own new strip-footing foundations . |
| 4 | Some good news on the A one , the earlier abnormal loads which were heading southbound and causing some quite lengthy delays near to Boroughbridge , they 're now parked up near to Wetherby so they 're not causing too many problems at the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ By Christ , you 're well set up this year . ’ |
| 6 | Particularly when VATable goods are usually taken on firm sale and have tighter credit periods than bookselling . |
| 7 | Jameie Geekie , Buckley 's key bowler , and Colin Evans , their young batting hope are both ruled out due to A level studies and that will improve the chances for Chris Lloyd 's Wrexham side , who are in need of a success after falling 19 points behind . |
| 8 | Furthermore , these giant corporations possess such wealth and power that they not only affect our lives , limbs , health , and property from the forceps to the grave , but they also bend the political democratic process in such a way that their interests are often prioritized over those of the electorate , consumers , employees , and shareholders . |
| 9 | ‘ People are often taken on short-term contracts , proper jobs are very hard to come by . |
| 10 | Day 6 ) From the guidebook : ‘ More stupid pictures are now taken on Grand Canyon trips than the combined total of all stupid pictures taken elsewhere . ’ |
| 11 | Oh I 'm all bunged up this morning . |
| 12 | A second canoe on this mission was paddled back to be safely picked up five miles from the English coast . |
| 13 | These cards are well mixed up this time are n't they ? |
| 14 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 15 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 16 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 17 | We were just locked up all the time , with half an hour exercise a day and no books to read . |
| 18 | Some of the tapes were already packaged up ready to be sent out . |
| 19 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 20 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 21 | Me and Jo were well split up last night ! |
| 22 | Upon closure of Woodhead , the class 76's were simply shut down one by one and congregated at Guide Bridge for many months afterwards , eventually departing for scrapyards in Sheffield or Leicester . |
| 23 | Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen . |
| 24 | According to Eric Partridge 's Dictionary of Catch Phrases , the phrase ‘ over the left shoulder ! ’ negates ‘ one 's own or another 's statement and indicates derisive disbelief , the thumb being sometimes pointed over that shoulder … |
| 25 | Around the château itself were neatly laid out formal gardens with mature trees , age-old fountains and sweet smelling bushes as well as a neglected , sunken , walled garden . |
| 26 | Then you can hit a key and hey presto ! the picture is all jumbled up ready for your child to piece it back together again . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , one of Mr Stein 's first duties as general manager is to recruit the rest of the staff , and he 's already set up some interviews locally . |
| 28 | The master 's degree is generally taken over three years and from 1992 it will be possible for teachers to take a Master of Education ( Management ) degree . |
| 29 | And the slag is normally tapped off first . |
| 30 | Finally , hypnosis is usually carried out some time after the police have done their normal questioning , but memory of an event can often improve spontaneously after an interval of time has passed ; this phenomenon is known as the ‘ reminiscence effect . ’ |