Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 2 | The lawyers ' proposals are calculated to save up to £43m . |
| 3 | Kick-offs have even been delayed to fit in with Sky TV advertisements . |
| 4 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 5 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 6 | Such birds as starlings , which mimic many sounds from their environments , have been heard sounding off like factory sirens , ice-cream van signals or even police cars in a hurry . |
| 7 | Consciousness has , once again , been put on the agenda but the concept of ‘ consciousness ’ has been altered to fit in with ideas coming from fields like machine intelligence . |
| 8 | We do need closer links , not only with the T & G but also with other unions , but let's not forget that other unions are organizing to build up their membership at the expense of the G M B. We need to make up our minds do we want an amalgamation or not . |
| 9 | We are helping to set up protected National Parks and helping communities to ‘ harvest ’ the forests , so they see how much more valuable the forests are intact than cut down . |
| 10 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |
| 11 | Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory tablets are helping to clear up tendonitis which forced him to return home early from Majorca earlier this month . |
| 12 | ‘ Those services which normally refer clients to us are not doing so because the local authority concerned does not have a contract with Roma or are struggling to sort out their assessment procedures , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Silva , who was born in South Africa of Portuguese parents and who won the European Tour 's Qualifying School in 1990 , hopes that his victory will do something to lift the game in Portugal ‘ where so many talented players are struggling to break through ’ . |
| 14 | EXCITING theme days have been arranged to spice up eating in the Barlaston canteen . |
| 15 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 16 | The orders she had been given whirled about in her brain in disordered , meaningless circles . |
| 17 | But India insisted Rhodes should have been given run out when he was on 28 . |
| 18 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 19 | But his attitude he 'd been taught to get on and do things so that he would be painting the back of the house or going on with his hobby or doing jobs on the car . |
| 20 | The Headwaters Forest , in the north of the state , is owned by Pacific Lumber , a subsidiary of the Maxxam Corporation , which has been struggling to pay off nearly $70 million worth of borrowing from Columbia Savings and Loan . |
| 21 | BET has been struggling to pay off debts after a period of over-expansion combined with the recession to hit profits . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been using Dream On as a kind of practical research , testing the possibilities . |
| 23 | I mean within a fifty kilometre er outline of the Riyadh city there are police check points and the people are checked going in and out , none of them allowed |
| 24 | The children visit the church and learn to look at it and describe what they see , and this is in itself a valuable exercise ; but it becomes more valuable still if as well as noting that the fabric is stone , they are provoked to go on to enquire what type of stone , is it all the same stone , why were these types of stone Preferred , where do they come from , and how do they come to be what they are ? |
| 25 | Local groups complain that the guidelines are bring drawn up expressly to meet the requirements of the port — the first of its type in Britain — and the Dash 7 aircraft that will fly to it From Britain 's regional airports and , later , abroad . |
| 26 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 27 | The particular principles adopted relate to attitudes and stated priorities , so there are schools where something like the Danish approach is used , and other schools where committees have been formed to set out the principles of a formal system comparable to SEE or SE . |
| 28 | This was the sight that Bill Brice saw when he smilingly turned round , holding the fresh bottle of sherry which he had been kneeling to get out from under the window-seat . |
| 29 | The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% . |
| 30 | The posters are intended to cheer up the staircase , which is in urgent need of renovation . |