Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 4 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 5 | I 've been impotent for as long as I can remember . |
| 6 | The diets are similar in so far as they both exclude a great deal of fat , thereby maximising the reduction of fat from our body . |
| 7 | His hair had been white for as long as Burun could remember , but this was the first time his age had seemed to affect his behaviour . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is reassuring to note that although these studies involve different problems within the verb , they all seem to be converging in so far as the view of the relation between event time and universe time ( time containing the event ) is concerned . |
| 9 | Weiss believes friendships to be important in so far as they reflect attitudes and behaviour that are supportive of the individual 's own beliefs , and they provide a reassurance of self-worth by virtue of their acceptance . |
| 10 | In terms of review of staggered hours erm the review is sort of a constant one which has not really come to head yet , in terms of actually being able to write something down , so I 'm we 'll be able to as soon as we , as soon I 've something which we erm , come to any conclusions in terms of staggered hours . |
| 11 | These are briefly described in Table 8.4 , and there are numerous examples which indicate that , overall , carefully managed agroforestry enterprises can be successful in so far as they provide a sustainable food supply and are environmentally conservational . |
| 12 | The emperor 's approach is to adhere to that principle and hold the trust to be valid in so far as it does not conflict with it : that is , as far as the daughter benefited under her father 's will . |
| 13 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 14 | He was far less concerned with the ‘ facts ’ , with the accuracy or applicability of substantive knowledge — these things were important in so far as they indicated the perspective which lay behind them . |
| 15 | From their viewpoint high over the campsite , they were amazed at how soon after daybreak people appeared and started making use of the free detecting areas . |
| 16 | A group is coherent in so far as it has a certain continuity in its consciousness , its organisation and its action ; but its coherence also implies that its members do actually support one another in practical ways that are consistent with the objectives of the group . |
| 17 | The position is different in so far as it affects the duty solicitor scheme . |
| 18 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 19 | Any tense which includes a component of the present tense such as the passé composé ( il a écrit ) is personal in so far as it acknowledges the present moment of the utterance . |
| 20 | It does , however , link the law to the idea of harm and this is valuable in so far as it reduces the risk that boisterous behaviour , or other non-violent activity , can by itself amount to a breach of the peace . |
| 21 | Erm so erm th the cheapest er fuel at the moment is gas , you know , that 's , that 's why er a lot of the erm er er generators are now moving to towards gas er erm er generation er wh which is fine for as long as the gas exists but , you know , another , give it another ten fifteen years , and our North Sea gas will have gone you see so , so erm you have to ask well how much do you , weight do you put on market forces and how much in say , in the energy business , ought you to be thinking longer term ? |
| 22 | He did the things that he is good at very well and I was pleased with my own strengths , ’ he said . |
| 23 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 24 | It is logical in so far as Scotland , in pacing themselves in a World Cup context , have already given caps when deliberately fielding understrength XVs versus the like of Japan and Zimbabwe . |
| 25 | Cocaine is available about as freely and cheaply today as in 1989 . |
| 26 | In fact , automatic driving is available from as cheaply as £7 , in 1.4i Merit form . |
| 27 | Anyone with an illness or injury of any severity is disabled for as long as the condition lasts . |
| 28 | The Consolidation Act provides that any clause in an agreement is void in so far as it purports : |
| 29 | Particular religions are true in so far as they succeed in expressing the primordial form of religion which in turn is comprehended only in the depths of particular religions . |
| 30 | Staff employed on a casual basis are entitled to not more than one week 's sick leave on full pay for every completed 4 weeks of effective service . |