Example sentences of "[adv] they [be] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Survival of these roots may have been enhanced by greater lignification and/or suberization of cortical or epidermal cells , or perhaps they were located in resource-rich microsites . |
| 2 | These , ’ he gestured to the Twins , ‘ are the same person really , only they 're going in different directions in time and just stopping to say hello to themselves . |
| 3 | Thus they are seen in full stature , their crests being 3000 feet above the road , in an upthrust of unremitting steepness without a single weakness to encourage ascent . |
| 4 | Something must be wrong when , although they have to travel further they are coming in cheaper . |
| 5 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
| 6 | Later they were used in elaborate salads , John Evelyn listing no fewer than three dozen suitable in his book Acetaria in 1699 . |
| 7 | But at least they were united in wanting story and more story , and their worldly success suggested that by the 1950s the world was on their side . |
| 8 | The interesting questions relate to how they are expressed in different species . |
| 9 | This project will attempt to document how debt crises occurred and how they were handled in specific countries since the early eighties . |
| 10 | Next in seniority come the Circuit judges ( often referred to as County Court judges when they are sitting in that court ) each of whom is referred to as Judge So-and-so . |
| 11 | I run the search room there , which means that erm people come into Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk and the end of a telephone , and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure that they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strong rooms that we 've got . |
| 12 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 13 | Exercise one , put in apostrophes where they are needed in these sentences . |
| 14 | If the time came they 'd be directing operations from there and they 'd want to know just who they were directing where they were placed in British society — everything . |
| 15 | Just then the engine gave one final splutter and died , and once again they were enveloped in that rushing eerie silence . |
| 16 | All organisms exhibit these properties in varying degree ; however they are displayed in purest form in the skeletons of micro-organisms such as Radiolaria . |
| 17 | The attitude of most feminists appears to be that , if women have reached higher education , then they are ‘ successful ’ ; the only questions to be asked are why fewer women than men reach higher education in the first place , and why they are concentrated in different subject areas . |
| 18 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 19 | Certainly they 're moving in various directions . |