Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
2 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
3 | But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back . |
4 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
5 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
6 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
7 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
8 | In chart terms the band were new , but in reality their roots can be traced back an incredible 15 years . |
9 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
10 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
11 | The aim should be to carry out a prompt and thorough investigation . |
12 | Mr Ciampi 's first priority will be to carry out the electoral reforms overwhelmingly endorsed by Italian voters by referendum in mid April . |
13 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
14 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
15 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
16 | He said you 'd ne , I used to say to you get on with your work he said and you 'd have a pencil in your mouth he said and you 'd be gazing out the window . |
17 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
18 | Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music . |
19 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
20 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
21 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
22 | ‘ We have to make sure that justice is done , that those who are guilty will be meted out the full penalty , ’ she told reporters after attending a funeral service for a pilot who died wiping out the rebels ' air support in last week 's attempt to overthrow her . |
23 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
24 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
25 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
26 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
27 | " To be bossing up the school . |
28 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
29 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
30 | Secretary of State for giving way , but when he made his proni provisional announcement on the er on the total S S A for Wales , was he aware that the er the various er salary review bodies would be bringing in a er a recommendation which was almost twice the current rate of inflation ? |