Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well done you and a very , very special thanks to the Princess Royal , without whose leadership it would not have been possibly at all .
2 The fears of insecurity which the system once provoked were far from notional — for example , the number of possession orders granted to farmers in England and Wales in 1975 was 1268 .
3 I doubt if I would ever have been quite to aware of this had we not gone through this disaster .
4 At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me .
5 The seats we now occupied were directly behind those of the complaining woman and her companions .
6 ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … .
7 I gather there was a defender on the goal line so Strachan could n't have been offside at all .
8 But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all .
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