Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 2 | Going out to the outlying part of town in which the creche had been situated you now travelled along a metalled road . |
| 3 | As far as these cats were concerned , I have little doubt that nothing but positive r reinforcement would have been given because if they had been punished they simply would n't have done it , and they would have run away and it 's very much more difficult as a as a performer to have an animal w is n't going to want to do the act . |
| 4 | He said he had been unable to take it in moderation , and then , in a long illness , he was forbidden liquor , so when the habit had been broken he never returned to it . |
| 5 | So if somebody says I 'll have a set of double glazing doors or something until they 've actually been installed he then gets paid . |
| 6 | Or if liver and limb bud cells are mixed they too sort out into large clumps ; but they make neither a proper liver nor limbs . |
| 7 | Until the ‘ official ’ pilot schemes are instituted we only have the experience of the formative approaches in the UK to guide us on how appraisal is to be conducted . |
| 8 | If they are prepared they normally have colouring and smelling additives on them which attract the fish . |
| 9 | And when you 're sorted it out , they want six gangs , so that 's six times four . |
| 10 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 11 | Yeah well they were supposed to be in flat and then when they 're cut it out you supposed , their supposed to turn it over |
| 12 | You 're allowed it though . |
| 13 | Generally when they 're folded they just go , just like that , I mean |
| 14 | Ah they 're bossed them around all their life I was proud of him , just standing . |
| 15 | But if you do n't understand it and you 're lost you just get to hate it you think , Oh no I ca n't stand that . |
| 16 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 17 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 18 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 19 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 20 | He received a formal grant of the land in December 1471 , although he had perhaps been promised it earlier , since one of his associates was promoted to a benefice within the estate in the previous October . |
| 21 | He received a formal grant of the land in December 1471 , although he had perhaps been promised it earlier , since one of his associates was promoted to a benefice within the estate in the previous October . |
| 22 | When cells are stimulated they invariably display regular calcium spikes which often appear as waves . |
| 23 | And even if they are called they hardly ever come in time . |
| 24 | Mm Yeah we 've been found it really difficult finding a baby sitter really I 'm surprised ever since we 've had Lisa we 've been really bad uh uh actually having baby sitters and you know actually making the effort to go out really . |
| 25 | No no , so everybody should be given it up till then to pay anyway should n't they ? |
| 26 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 27 | Ideally , at this late stage , he should be given it intravenously , but there was no intravenous here . |
| 28 | That when women are given the vote it follows that children should be given it too is no argument at all , but a version of it occurs in modern debates over the justice or injustice of Mill 's famous disclaimer in his essay On Liberty . |
| 29 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 30 | Erm because it is an onerous task , erm onerous in terms of the time that needs spending doing the job even if it 's relatively simple in terms of what needs to be done it still takes time and there 's still running around to do . |