Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 3 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 4 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 5 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 6 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 7 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 8 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 9 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 10 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 11 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 12 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 13 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 14 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 15 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 16 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 17 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 18 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 19 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 20 | Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section . |
| 21 | A spokeswoman for Softlab , however , told the US paper 's German sister publication , Computerwoche , that the figure had been plucked out of the air and , while confirming that the two companies are in discussion , said that negotiations are no further advanced than those it is currently having with at least four other US firms . |
| 22 | A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery . |
| 23 | The choice of 6 January for this purpose has been traced back to the gnostic Christians of Egypt , the corresponding date in the calendar used there being traditionally associated with the blessing of the Nile . |
| 24 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 25 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 26 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 27 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 28 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 29 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 30 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |