Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most hospitals now have chapels , but many are hidden down corridors and are uninviting . |
| 2 | The original stuff had all been ripped out years ago , so when I moved in I thought I 'd go to town on the redecoration . |
| 3 | Nottinghamshire club player Bryn Derbyshire was given a three-month suspended sentence with £300 costs , and had to pay £400 compensation to umpire Joseph Purser after causing ‘ bodily harm by wanton furious driving ’ by reversing his car at the umpire after a match in which he had been given out lbw . |
| 4 | In the April 18 issue of 19970 , chirpy chart regulars of the time , Blue Mink can be heard bemoaning the onset of ‘ Progressive Rock ’ in terms that are extremely revealing : ‘ The ‘ underground ’ scene has been rammed down people 's throats for too long . |
| 5 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 6 | We are carried on feathers . |
| 7 | The domes are carried on pendentives and below are rectangular piers without capitals . |
| 8 | These domes are carried on pendentives and are each 40 feet in diameter . |
| 9 | Full details of what promise to be uplifting and enjoyable celebrations are carried on page 4 and the back cover . |
| 10 | ‘ He must have been let out years ago , ’ said Preston . |
| 11 | On the one hand , much empirical evidence seems to point to the fact that fire-cults in which fire-wheels are rolled down hills , thrown into the air , or in which bonfires are kindled on Midwinter 's or Midsummer 's Day all reflect solar symbolism ; the object of these practices being to ensure the return of the sun , or protection against its heat or whatever . |
| 12 | come on , right time is nearly twenty past , now sit down and get on with it what ? there are come on Deana you get on you 're |
| 13 | The railway track had been torn up years earlier — a cutting fined with ivy-covered telegraph poles marked it now — but the house , in need of a few coats of paint , was just next to the old railway bridge . |
| 14 | The barracks should have been torn down years ago , but the fort 's current proprietors , the Archaeological Survey of India , have lovingly continued the work of decay initiated by the British : white marble pavilions have been allowed to discolour ; plasterwork has been left to collapse ; the water channels have cracked and grassed over ; the fountains are dry . |
| 15 | But if the Newton Cap Viaduct Protection Group had not fought so well , the elegant crossing might have been torn down years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ People are fed up hearing about our injuries , but you ca n't run away from the fact that we have 28 professionals , and half of those ca n't be considered . |
| 17 | It was growing dark , for the clocks had been turned back weeks ago and the nights were drawing in . |
| 18 | Much more common in tile roofing — as it was in the cheapest form of slated roof — was ‘ open batten ’ construction in which the tiles are hung on battens fixed directly to the top surfaces of the rafters without any intermediate boarding . |
| 19 | It 's the tiles are copies of ones found in the foundations and they 're hung on hand split oak lathes . |
| 20 | Yes they 're already , they 're signed up members now |
| 21 | At the end of this season , when the achievements are totted up silverware or not Middlesbrough will have proved , once again , to be Cock of the North . |
| 22 | As these sites are used up housebuilders have looked further afield to the small towns and villages of southern England which are now within commuting reach of London and the motorway-induced development radiating from it . |
| 23 | It looked a shambles on the live broadcast , but by the evening showing it had been cleaned up thanks to some additional mobile camera coverage . |
| 24 | They had been handed over counters , crumpled , made greasy by hundreds of sweaty hands . |
| 25 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 26 | We are handed out sheets and make our beds . |
| 27 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 28 | From the recent work of Clive Partridge at Skeleton Green , Herts , it is clear that a trading post had been set up c . |
| 29 | The advantages of hiring lorries on contract are set out below. : |
| 30 | The redraft and the original are set out side by side so that typography and language may be compared . |