Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 2 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 3 | Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower , but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place . |
| 4 | Initally all the cargo had to be manhandled off . |
| 5 | The deer were not to be fenced out of enclosures in the forest with ‘ unreasonable hedges and ditches ’ , unless ‘ the greater part of the enclosure be sown with corn ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Not Beethoven playing for everyday listening perhaps , but rather a fine wine , to be pondered over , and deliberated upon at length before its true quality most fully reveals itself . |
| 8 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 9 | Another way of playing this game is to send children out into a local park with a list of items that are likely to be laying around naturally . |
| 10 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 11 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 12 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 13 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 14 | Interox to be split up |
| 15 | And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up . |
| 16 | He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again . |
| 17 | Hurray-for-the-Medici cycle of paintings to be split up after 370 years |
| 18 | They overcame this problem by imagining a full turn , or one revolution , to be split up into 360 equal pieces . |
| 19 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 20 | Either the government can order large firms to be split up into smaller independent companies , which it is hoped will act more competitively ( the so-called ‘ structural approach ’ ) , or the government can leave monopoly firms intact but seek to control their performance , for example by monitoring prices and profits and ordering price reductions when firms appear to be exerting their potential monopoly power . |
| 21 | Answer guide : This question needs to be split up into its constituent parts in order to take the student through the progression logically . |
| 22 | It 's bad enough having a seriously ill child without all having to be split up . |
| 23 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 24 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 25 | Pain has to be faced , to be gone through , you ca n't make it better by getting into bed with me . ’ |
| 26 | It will be seen that the new s 370A is not a significant change , since all the formalities of calling and holding a meeting would have to be gone through . |
| 27 | Often images and often the sense of the beginning and the end of a poem are all you have — some journey to be gone through between those things — you know that , but you do n't know the details . |
| 28 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 29 | Various other procedures have to be gone through but it is expected that the title will be completed within the next six months . |
| 30 | Various other procedures have to be gone through but it is expected that the title will be completed within the next six months . |