Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , as stated above , the ability to accommodate properly is often inadequate , imprecise or totally lacking in the visually impaired child . |
| 2 | Next thing I got on was erm |
| 3 | well you know what he did , on Monday morning he was in the garage when he suddenly made up his mind to com to walk across to the paper shop to get a paper and he had n't got er a jacket or any thing on , all he got on was a pull over |
| 4 | The stump she sits on is as dead as she is blind . |
| 5 | What she did n't bargain on was you whisking her off to the country and locking all the doors . |
| 6 | Looking back I can now see that some of the happenings through which I lived professionally were destined to be profound and far reaching in their impact and to become milestones of educational change . |
| 7 | The Supervisory Authority and the state prosecutor 's office may institute proceedings before the ordinary courts of justice for a declaration that an insider dealing or a misleading prospectus and dealings made thereunder are null and void . |
| 8 | Mm , it 's not not rotating somewhere is it ? |
| 9 | What now became clear was that Cadwallon was prepared to tolerate neither the family of Eadwine nor that of Aethelfrith as rulers of the northern Angles . |
| 10 | What soon became clear was that he had also acquired a modern-day glamorous superstar . |
| 11 | What also became clear was that computers were much better used with generic programs than with specific software designed to teach , say , mathematics , history or geography . |
| 12 | Techniques that can not readily be proven analytically are unlikely to gain much engineering credence . |
| 13 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 14 | In order to answer such causal questions , careful observation of what goes on is simply not sufficient . |
| 15 | I mean , I 'm not against foresters , but loggers seem to be a fairly destructive lot , I mean some of the forestry practice that actually goes on is appalling . |
| 16 | No matter how big the tree may grow , the same branching rule goes on being applied at the tips of all its twigs . |
| 17 | As long as we , she goes on being . |
| 18 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 19 | It 's painted on is it ? |
| 20 | However , once up there the temptation to carry on is too strong , so choose a day early in the summer if you have no will-power to stave off the seduction of the tops . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 22 | The one thing all readers are likely to agree on is that Derrida is a very difficult writer , whether he is read in French or in English translation . |
| 23 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 24 | Similarly , the focus may be placed on was to stress the truth of the utterance : |
| 25 | A common complaint from people who have not been taught properly is often : ‘ I could get the sail up alright and sail a little , but I could n't turn round and come back . ’ |
| 26 | Its eggs are transported in faeces , and if the ground these land on is sandy and moist , they will hatch . |
| 27 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 28 | Ive checked with my other half and she assured me that the info she passed on was from Sky and not made up ! |
| 29 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 30 | ‘ So , all you have to go on is a … ’ |