Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The initial writ requires to identify the licensing board 's failures and specify the circumstances which are relied on to show that the hoard erred ; it is not sufficient to recite without specification all the statutory grounds of appeal ( Sutherland v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1984 S.L.T. 241 ) . |
| 62 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 63 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 64 | Leapor often compliments other women in her poems , and two poems , ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ and ‘ Silvia and the Bee ’ , are given over to praising the beauty and the accomplishments of particular friends . |
| 65 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 66 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 67 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 68 | Visit Bodrum on market day , a lively occasion when whole streets are given over to selling spices or fruit , day old chicks or melons , and the most colourful variety of vegetables . |
| 69 | 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 . |
| 70 | Antoine Becquerel ( 1852–1908 ) observed that similar rays are given off by uranium . |
| 71 | 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 . |
| 72 | STM hinges on quantum theory , which suggests that electrons are given off in clouds from solids and will tunnel through a vacuum to other nearby conductors . |
| 73 | 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 ’ . |
| 74 | Fuelling this propaganda are free supplies of birth control pills , capsules and IUDs are given out to Timorese who are used to paying a small fortune just to consult a doctor . |
| 75 | As you 'll have heard , bass makers Warwick are branching out into the area of specialised bass amplification . |
| 76 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 77 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 78 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 79 | You can see the version of MS-DOS that you are using by including $V , and there are also several options for including special characters such as the backspace or carriage return line feed . |
| 80 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 81 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 82 | The ruins of the rack shelving were leaning against the wall ; the books had been stacked up in neat piles beside it . |
| 83 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 84 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 85 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 86 | In SAS style officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary bomb disposal squad are flown in by helicopter . |
| 87 | 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 . |
| 88 | 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 . |
| 89 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 90 | The salmonella has been traced back to contaminated Scotch eggs . |