Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 2 | Here your lines should be fine , light and crisp and areas of colour must be blended carefully for a smooth result . |
| 3 | Shiseido has increased the proportion of the moisturising ingredient hyaluronic acid in the Matte Red Lipstick to give a velvety texture , and the three-sided Black Variations Shadow Liner is as soft as charcoal so that it can be blended all over the eyelid or gently smudged as a liner . |
| 4 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 5 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 6 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 7 | The problem of computer-related crime will be highlighted today in the Law Commission 's report on Computer Misuse . |
| 8 | His experience will be highlighted tonight in a probe into cash machines by ITV 's This Week programme . |
| 9 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 10 | Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " . |
| 11 | It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote . |
| 12 | In favourable cases the latter may each be recognized embryologically by the presence of ( i ) a pair of hollow mesodermal somites , ( ii ) paired neuromeres ( embryonic ganglia ) , and ( iii ) paired appendages . |
| 13 | It can be amended even in a way not covered under the Bill 's title if the amendment is connected with the Bill 's purpose . |
| 14 | In all these cases catalogues can be amended simply by a general notice explaining that the groups of materials have been moved to remote storage . |
| 15 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 16 | They may be aroused sexually by the naked bodies they wash and care for . |
| 17 | Pin the front flap ( the one with the chain cast off ) around the front V of the garment , allowing the chain edge to be eased neatly beneath the V shape in the band . |
| 18 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 19 | Another method of identification has recently become more widely accepted , in spite of the fact that it needs to be implanted surgically by a vet , although this is a relatively minor procedure . |
| 20 | Occasional breaks in routine were available , to be undertaken either as a sign of enthusiasm , or as a momentary release from tedium . |
| 21 | Pasture improvement can be undertaken either by the individual crofter , after obtaining the ‘ apportionment , , of his share of the common grazing , or on a township basis . |
| 22 | No fast should be undertaken against an opponent ; it should be undertaken rather for the good of those near and dear to the person who fasts . |
| 23 | But bear in mind that interest rate hedging should not be undertaken lightly by the inexperienced , and then only to hedge an underlying cash position and not for speculation |
| 24 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 25 | ‘ The achievements will be rent asunder by the Government 's ill-informed proposals , ’ said Councillor Keith Geddes . |
| 26 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 27 | Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed . |
| 28 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 29 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 30 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |