Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUNGSTERS in Northern Ireland smoke more , drink less and have been offered drugs more often than their British counterparts . |
| 2 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 3 | Y'know what is , you might say , if you got a question on groups , I 'm using groups hypothetically here because that 's the thing that we 've just done , ok ? |
| 4 | The other side of the coin is that firms may now be hiring workers more quickly as demand picks up . |
| 5 | The alternative would be to keep cats indoors even though this would curtail some of their freedom of movement and all their natural hunting behaviour . |
| 6 | You have to have a stu , a good familiarity with organic momegiture if you do n't , you could be throwing marks away even before you get in that exam room ! |
| 7 | Foreigners ( especially businesspeople ) were to get visas more quickly and the 150,000 Soviet citizens living abroad would no longer need permission to travel home . |
| 8 | To move forward we are laying plans now so that we are in a position to take advantage of whatever the future offers . ’ |
| 9 | Note that failure does not include collection failure — the absence of the sought item or topic from the collection ; one of the functions of a good catalogue is to inform users as quickly as possible that the library does not hold what they are looking for . |
| 10 | The aim is to disseminate messages as widely as possible within a given community . |
| 11 | But the aim is to help parents financially even though the actuality falls short of the intention of preventing family poverty . |
| 12 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 13 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 14 | what I 'm concerned about is put things down like that , er like that it encourages erm an appreciation of language skills that are bitty , partial , they can be pulled apart and it 's not the model of language teaching that I would like to promote . |
| 15 | Industry preparing for the Government legislation is luring inspectors away faster than they can be recruited to enforce it . |
| 16 | The only purpose of this sweet liquid is to please insects so greatly that they become addicted to it and devote all possible time during the flowering season to collecting it . |
| 17 | The handling of the bike , for example , was causing difficulties early on but with the help of his teammates , Jeremy was soon back on song . |
| 18 | In neighbouring HERTFORDSHIRE Wynne Norris was teaching classes as early as 1955 . |
| 19 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |