Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this trip was taking much longer than planned , due to many orbits and several beautiful parts of the coastline flown as slowly as possible , we expedited lunch , and were soon airborne heading north to pick up the coast again . |
| 2 | THREE police football teams were too busy tackling crime to play all their fixtures — so they invented bogus results and sent them in to the league . |
| 3 | ANDREW SMITH 'S TIP : The nest of this fish is a rather tatty affair that soon falls into disrepair and if there is not enough plant material to fix to , can develop into a vast platform of bubbles . |
| 4 | The Hollow Men lack a bit of spark and passion , but what they really need to lift them out of their mid table rut is just one killer tune to help bring their genial pop to the attention of a wider audience . |
| 5 | There 's not too much mucking around with finances and all that palaver , and there 's even automatic team selection to save time . |
| 6 | They are too busy making money to worry about paying bills . |
| 7 | Martin played in two Tests in India and one in Pakistan on the way home , in front of massive crowds , picking up eight further wickets and playing a few useful tailend innings ; but there was only one Test appearance to come , and that was at Port Elizabeth on the 1966–67 tour , the final Test , after Martin had taken 11 wickets in the Griqualand West match and six in the South African XI match at Pietermaritzburg preceding the Test . |
| 8 | Because there was still enough runway space to go around , they failed to attract the airlines . |
| 9 | It was found that certain valuable cash crops like coffee , cocoa , oil palm and pepper grew well along rivers and that under the forest there was probably enough iron ore to meet world demand for 400 years , large deposits of bauxite , gold , nickel , copper and tin . |
| 10 | I thought the 238S could have handled the top end slightly better ; the lead guitar suffered from lack of cut because of the DBX noise reduction , but without it there was too much tape hiss to produce any acceptable recording . |