Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandma used to say they were like chalk and cheese , and that they should have been shaken up together in a bag to get more of a mixture . |
| 2 | Sometimes assessments are carried out simply as a classroom routine . |
| 3 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 4 | Progressive assessment relates directly to the principle of credit accumulation in that passes in individual modules are built up progressively towards a final award . |
| 5 | ‘ Wayward , twisted psykers are hunted down ruthlessly on a host of worlds . |
| 6 | And then you 're going up again on a surprisingly gentle rebound . |
| 7 | We 're going out , we 're going out probably to a strip party |
| 8 | Well I think you 're moving on now to a sphere where perhaps C I D could you know help you on that . |
| 9 | And that 's alright till you 're sent out there on a frosty morning , ai n't it , and you dig your fork in . |
| 10 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 11 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 12 | The meeting has already attracted great interest from smaller nations which will be sending teams to the Olympics , and they will be accommodated in a one-and-a-half hour ‘ warm-up ’ before the principle events get under way at 7.30pm and are beamed out live to a world-wide audience by Screensport . |
| 13 | I am brought up sharp in a busy street , |
| 14 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
| 15 | The Brackley blooms are brought out early with a little help from 400 watt lamps sunning them from January onwards . |
| 16 | One law for the rich and another for the poor , as the two systems can be made to seem , are laid down together in a book which commemorates a desertion , on the author 's part , of the rich for the poor . |
| 17 | If there are any holes or dips in the cake , these can be filled in now with a little marzipan and glaze . |
| 18 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 19 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 20 | Government functions were to be carried out instead by a Cabinet attached to executive President Islam Karimov [ whose title is given wrongly on p. 37323 as President of the Supreme Soviet ] . |
| 21 | Surveillance may be carried out adequately by a skilled practitioner in 10 to 14 minutes once or twice a year , but , to have any impact , discussions about management and lifestyle to reduce the risk of complications will take longer . |
| 22 | The project will be carried out jointly by a Chinese research team and SPRU . |
| 23 | Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book . |
| 24 | So , Ill be signing off now in a CRAPPY SHEFF UTD sort of way . |
| 25 | Had we a powerful industrial policy in the nineteen eighties , would we be looking back now at a crisis of industrial investment in the nineteen nineties ? |
| 26 | Most of these ideas can be used directly as you knit or can be sewn on afterwards as a pleasant ploy during the holiday season . |
| 27 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 28 | Blinds drawn down in the heat of the day had made an oasis of quiet shadow , a source of energy that could be drawn on now like a pool of pure water guarded from the dust of the track . |
| 29 | This keeps the material inside reasonably dry and sweet and also provides a liquid fertiliser that can be drawn off regularly via a tap at the bottom . |
| 30 | Well I I I 'm waiting I I imagined that somebody would be rushing down here with a bottle for me . |