Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 2 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 3 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
| 4 | Judicial statistics , which were compiled more systematically as time went by , continued to show a high number of offences . |
| 5 | There is an ancient variant in the Lucan version of the Lord 's Prayer , which is attested as early as Marcion in the second century and reads , ‘ May thy Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us , ’ instead of , ‘ Thy kingdom come . ’ |
| 6 | Will he order an immediate review of those cases with a view to ensuring that nobody is penalised financially purely because of the bravery that they showed and the sacrifice that they were prepared to make for their country ? |
| 7 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 8 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 9 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 10 | They were then struggling at 127 for four with 16 overs remaining but Byas pulled Caddick for six to restore confidence , which was boosted even further when he was dropped on the boundary edge by Andy Hayhurst when 27 . |
| 11 | But you know that is a danger not just for those who are lost as far as God 's salvation is concerned , there is a danger there for you and I as Christians , of being smug , of being self-satisfied , I 'm alright ! |
| 12 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke , who were beaten only once as England soared to promotion in the European League , suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the men 's doubles at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 13 | And consequently we was all subject , and you were fined very heavily if you were , if you tore these what's- a-names , blackouts , that 's the name . |
| 14 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 15 | She is introduced ironically enough when she saves her unfaithful brother 's marriage . |
| 16 | It does not provide a resolution of the conflict in either psychological or social terms , but because of the aesthetic coherence of the novel , the problem itself is stated more forcefully than it is in either of the two previous works . |
| 17 | Consequently , engineers have a primary role in ensuring that the risk management programme itself is managed as effectively as any other business activity . |
| 18 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 19 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 20 | The estate itself was defined as early as 1240 in a Sarum charter as Forestarehege . |
| 21 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 22 | ‘ We were so excited about a new life in a new house that we were drawn together again as friends and lovers and the Other Woman got left behind . ’ |
| 23 | Within these oppositions , one is rated more highly than the other : in this case , masculinity and science . |
| 24 | But , it 's possible that , the same amount of drink , two people drink , taking the same amount of drink one is affected more badly than the other , or worse than the other . |
| 25 | International discussion is eased if they are distinguished as far as possible . |
| 26 | Amongst users they are assessed more positively than traditional residential areas by non-motorised users , but not by motorists . |
| 27 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |
| 28 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 29 | They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed . |
| 30 | They are considered together here because of their close association with each other — girls experiencing institutional care also show a particularly high rate of premarital pregnancy ( Quinton et al. , 1984 ) . |