Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different opinions are given all the time . |
| 2 | Where VMS System Management decisions have to be made , you are given all the relevant information to enable you to correctly determine your requirements . |
| 3 | If it seems you are training hard — perhaps you are fatigued all the time — you are probably training at too high a level . |
| 4 | Living in a totalitarian system , he said , ‘ you are taught all the time that it 's unbreakable . |
| 5 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 6 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 7 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 8 | We wanted to see if Isabella and Edgar Linton are punished all the time by their parents , as we are . ’ |
| 9 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 10 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 11 | Within this secondary category are grouped all the engineering analysis activities normally performed using computers . |
| 12 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 13 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 14 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 15 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 16 | For stereo hi-fi recording , the microphones are connected all the way to the camcorder via separate right and left hand mixer channels , the mixer being set to mono for ‘ centre-stage ’ speech recording , otherwise to stereo . |
| 17 | Yet decisions about the significance , for entry into higher education , of school-level achievement in public examinations are made all the time — and it is odd that they seem to be made without reference to CNAA , BTEC or the NCVQ . |
| 18 | I mean he 's got plenty of every single bit of papers that they 're given all the time . |
| 19 | You 'll find you soon get through the day that way , and you 're occupied all the time which is the important thing . ’ |
| 20 | Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that . |
| 21 | So as they go round they get they look at their guidebooks , they 're told all the are . |
| 22 | And so you 're covered all the way . |
| 23 | Me , I think they 're lost half the time . ’ |
| 24 | Though their studies provide very little direct evidence on why teachers teach the way they do ( they were not really asked this ) , explanations are advanced all the same . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 26 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 27 | If you want to stock to 100 or 150ml size then ask your local chemist to order you a box of amber glass medicine bottles — they are used all the time in a dispensing chemist and a manufacturer 's box of 50 is relatively cheap . |
| 28 | Blatant attempts at suggesting status and covering up inadequacies are used all the time in the business world — to show connections and influence , establish a good track record or to create a mystique about something . |
| 29 | Comment : Indirect questions are used all the time by people who need their status boosting through being given buckets of approval , or who are looking for a reason for punishing other people should they not fall in with the anticipated scenario . |
| 30 | Drugs are used all the time in contemporary society . |