Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
2 | Finally , British forces will be withdrawn once the territorial integrity of the island has been restored . |
3 | Erm remember the hay we would be turning it w with pitchforks you know , and erm not a well goo drying day but you had to risk turning it and hoping that it 'd be dry but er it would be raining again the following day . |
4 | The upgrade path is simple and can be undertaken whenever the relevant skills have been learned . |
5 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
6 | Mr Ciampi 's first priority will be to carry out the electoral reforms overwhelmingly endorsed by Italian voters by referendum in mid April . |
7 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
8 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
9 | A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly onto your eyes . |
10 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
11 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
12 | There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service . |
13 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
14 | From Thursday onwards , the influence of Venus will be bringing out the artistic side of you . |
15 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
16 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
17 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
18 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
19 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
20 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
21 | If the incremental project can be accepted then the logical conclusion is to accept Project D in the first instance . |
22 | By simple calculation , it can be seen why the luckless Tretyakov needs the $15 million . |
23 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
24 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
25 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
26 | 4.28 Incidents of violence in establishments must be recorded both within the establishment 's routine method of recording so that all staff can see what has taken place and also be filling in the necessary report forms . |
27 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
28 | IN THE light of the recent debate on defence in the House of Commons , perhaps now is a good time for the people of Darlington to be told where the prospective Labour candidate stands on the issue of nuclear disarmament . |
29 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
30 | I suppose me Dan and Honey 'll be going back the cheap way . |