Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are widely accepted easy to use and , if lost or stolen , you are promptly refunded by the Bank . |
| 2 | In trusts , however , it has been widely maintained that intention always counted for a lot more than words . |
| 3 | Unless preference shareholders are expressly granted participating rights they are unlikely to be entitled to share in any way in the ‘ equity ’ or to have voting rights except in narrowly prescribed circumstances . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , despite disturbance , some young are successfully reared each year , and Ringed Plovers seem to be developing an increasing tolerance of casual disturbance by man of their breeding sites . |
| 5 | Since this includes all those forms which are conventially termed subjective , it is clear that the distinction between individual and society is only one or the selection or an analytical level , since the two are inseparable . |
| 6 | The burrow collapses around them so that they are effectively buried alive . |
| 7 | My final point relates to the penalties that will be employed when North sea workers are eventually given some sort of legislative protection against victimisation . |
| 8 | ‘ You see , from now on our demands are that your wife and child remain unharmed and are eventually released unharmed . |
| 9 | If semantics is taken to include all Conventional aspects of meaning , then perhaps most deictic phenomena are properly considered semantic . |
| 10 | This high-profile strategy to shape the public perception of Thomas was based upon that which had been successfully deployed prior to the confirmation of Bush 's previous appointee to the court , David Souter [ see pp. 37703-04 ] . |
| 11 | The study involved the analysis of environmental responses in two industrial areas — the domestic fabric detergent sector and plastics waste in the automobile sector — and also an investigation of companies which have been successfully innovated clean technologies . |
| 12 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 13 | You do it with your body just like it has been successfully done millions of times before throughout history . |
| 14 | Questionnaires and achievement scores may be used but they are rarely given high priority . |
| 15 | If rationing or discriminatory decisions in health care are rarely made explicit within the National Health Service , such judgements are nonetheless made , and have typically been left to individual doctors . |
| 16 | These are rarely found complete as the blades are generally made of iron and have therefore rusted away . |
| 17 | But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins . |
| 18 | ‘ a condition contained in debentures … is not invalid by reason only that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency ( however remote ) or on the expiration of a period ( however long ) any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding . ’ |
| 19 | Article 118A also allows majority voting in the Council , so offering obvious political attractions to the Commission and to the European Parliament who are thereby given greater powers over the legislation . |
| 20 | Chambers 4d and 4c are standard , mouldering guard rooms , but are wholly painted black , given them and bleak and depressing feel . |
| 21 | ‘ I come from a great medical mafia , most of my relatives are medically involved one way or another , ’ she told David Frost yesterday , adding that none of her family have private health insurance . |
| 22 | Dwarves are powerfully built little people who live underground or in mountain caves throughout Europe , particularly Scandinavia . |
| 23 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 24 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 25 | But they are pastoral at the same time , as you are constantly made aware , and nowhere more so than up here on the lofty Plateau d'Iraty , where several roads meet . |
| 26 | As rhetoric enfolds a group or initiative , so fibres of meaning interpenetrate every strand of sound , ensuring that the experience reaches us already placed in a general scheme of significance , validated and rendered ripe for the ICA We are constantly made conscious . |
| 27 | Rock'n'roll was originally a revolt against straitlaced stuffy mores ( encountered in the family , at school , in the small town ) , but now it 's ‘ brainwashing media images and fantasies ’ , the very institution of pop itself , that we define ourselves against , Indiepop is fast becoming nothing but commentary on pop — The Membranes ' ‘ Death To Trad Rock ’ , Sonic/Ciccone Youth 's obsession with Madonna , Age of Chance 's ‘ Kiss ’ , Oblivion is forestalled because we are constantly made conscious that this is a reaction against . |
| 28 | Some people , on the other hand , are suddenly rendered immobile , for example some of the ‘ emergency ’ admissions to hospital and those who suddenly collapse or become ill and are nursed at home . |
| 29 | At Tottenham Court Road there are greatly reduced one-off pieces of furniture that are either shop-soiled , damaged or buyers ' samples . |
| 30 | Language policies for education are highly charged political issues and seldom if ever decided on educational grounds alone . |