Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 2 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 3 | This instrument was known to Ptolemy in the second century AD , and — the underlying mathematical theory of stereographic projection can be traced back at least to Ptolemy 's great predecessor Hipparchus ( second century BC ) . |
| 4 | ( Gordon and Heivilin ( 1978 ) , however , point out that the origins of ZBB can be traced back at least until 1924 ) . |
| 5 | The Swan 's chequered history can be traced back to almost 100 years before . |
| 6 | Robert Rickman , director of consultancy Forest Investment Management , believes the Forestry Commission 's estate should be broken up into geographically defined chunks for sale , with woods of special amenity value handed over to conservation bodies or local authorities . |
| 7 | It had always been Jamie Reid 's belief that the Sex Pistols should be broken up after successfully scandalising the Jubilee . |
| 8 | Any process with a clearly defined end and intermediate objectives that can be broken down into easily analysed subskills is ideally suited for computerisation . |
| 9 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 10 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 11 | It could allow only 800 posts to be filled out of more than 1,700 applications nationwide . |
| 12 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 13 | However , Miranda , who could n't stand indecision , was n't the sort of woman to be fobbed off for much longer . |
| 14 | Sale fan John Flacks , a member of the fledgling Supporters Shareholders Association , said last night : ‘ I was at a meeting with Alex Ferguson on Thursday and he inferred that something might be sorted out by today . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , hopefully , it 'll all be sorted out by now ; Jennifer was going to explain everything at home . ’ |
| 16 | It would have taken 25 years to complete and required the Thames to be frozen over for about seventeen years , to prevent the river flooding the deep foundations . |
| 17 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 18 | Her book features 100 authentic recipes that can be conjured up in just 35 minutes from start to finish , including antipasti and starters — try ricotta-stuffed dates for an unusual appetiser — and pasta , risotto and other typically Italian main courses . |
| 19 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 20 | Clearly , clearly , the survey could n't be carried on in very many parts of the sewer because the pipes are in such bad condition . |
| 21 | By using the stomach tube , and portions of liquefied food identified only by a code number , the test could be carried out without either the patient or the nurse giving the test food knowing its identity . |
| 22 | ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’ |
| 23 | However , a patch repair can be carried out by carefully scraping away the burnt area with a knife until all the charring has been removed . |
| 24 | Prescribing will be carried out by specially trained and experienced nurses , yet trained nurses are leaving the NHS at the rate of 80,000 a year — a quarter of all nurses . |
| 25 | Project development , European sales co-ordination , customer requirement analysis and the subsequent development of tailored systems will all be carried out from there . |
| 26 | Distillation may be carried out in either a batch process , using a pot still , or a continuous process , using a patent or Coffey still . |
| 27 | Not so popular was the experimental survival section of the course which always seemed to be carried out in extremely inclement weather with a helicopter helping to increase the discomfort of tossing about on a life raft in Plymouth Sound . |
| 28 | Must be torn up at once . |
| 29 | I demand to be let out of here ! ’ she cried in a shrill voice . |
| 30 | With a microphone on a long lead plugged in , the on-board mike is automatically disconnected and the sound can then be picked up at much closer range . |