Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happens when a succession of items are placed one after another in a sentence without words to indicate their order or importance . |
| 2 | Er er simply er that the various upper case items which are listed one to twelve , are backed up in lower case script . |
| 3 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 4 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 5 | He did one thing in Hollywood for which he has not been given anything like sufficient credit . |
| 6 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 7 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 8 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 9 | In your opinion if you 're offered something like that you should have your own mind and if you want to take it that 's your problem . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been told one in 10 couples is infertile but they ca n't be in your street , can they ? |
| 11 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 12 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 13 | The theory has several distinctive aspects , the most important of which are these : ( a ) The insistence that units are ranked one above another in a definite order . |
| 14 | Suddenly , the ineffable goodness of the NEA and public funding is being proclaimed by many whose professional lives have been spent very-nicely-thank-you in NEA-free zones in the private sector . |
| 15 | On arriving back in your room after a day at college , you should immediately ( do n't leave it until later ) transfer the day 's pages of notes to the individual Shelfolds that have been allocated one to each course or subject . |
| 16 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 17 | While this is taking place they should be given plenty of nourishing food and a varied diet . |
| 18 | In addition to the enormous amount you will learn on the day , you will be given lots of helpful written information to take home , and have the opportunity to buy relevant Domino publications . |
| 19 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 20 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 21 | Ratio scales , to remind ourselves , contain all the properties of ordinal and interval scales with the additional one that they can be transformed one into another . |
| 22 | I was grateful to be called anything at all . |
| 23 | If these spaces are not to be compared one to another , and no original research has been carried out , what exactly is the purpose of this well-prepared book ? |
| 24 | Groups of gens related in this way from phratries and phratries may be linked one to another in a similar fashion to form tribes . |
| 25 | It seems clear that throughout the developmental period , certain factors can be identified which in certain circumstances will increase a person 's future psychiatric risk . |
| 26 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 27 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 28 | 2 If a word has a number of meanings which are a little different , then they are printed one after another and numbered . |
| 29 | In data manipulation on a parallel computer all bits of a word are processed at the same time , while on a serial computer the bits of a word are processed one after another . |
| 30 | British Columbia 's powerful timber industry — led by MacMillan Bloedel , the company that will be doing much of the cutting in Clayoquot — feigned relief at being given anything at all while bemoaning the loss of jobs that the mild restrictions would cause . |