Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would increase group revenue before tax by £171m in respect of companies which are profitable and reduce it by £141m in respect of loss-making companies . |
| 2 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |
| 3 | ‘ As it has never impressed me either , you can pretend that I am normal and address me by my name . |
| 4 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 5 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 7 | He wanted to be different and run it in Germany ! |
| 8 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 9 | tendency if you talk about it you 'd be honest but to write it on a form you 'd be |
| 10 | This can be uncomfortable and requires plenty of gnawing to relieve the growing pain . |
| 11 | They must be brief and include lots of spare blank paper to be filled up later . |
| 12 | There , they are likely to listen sympathetically and you may be lucky and catch them on a quiet day . |
| 13 | We would ask everyone to be patient and to leave plenty of time for their journey , ’ he stressed . |
| 14 | In skill training the opposite can apply , the trainee is persuaded to be flexible and to orient himself towards the end rather than the means . |
| 15 | Secure in his job , with a growing international reputation , and uxoriously contented with his comely Sophie , lie knew himself to be successful and suspected himself to be happy . |
| 16 | However , your local council will be able to tell you if you are eligible and provide you with an application form . |
| 17 | the fields they are in have masses of grass , are level and have plenty of shelter , and |
| 18 | The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor . |
| 19 | Amid the unspeakable sufferings , however , there are epic tales of courage and heroism ; of those who voluntarily followed their banished loved ones into the unknown ; of enlightened , cultivated exiles who chose to remain after their sentences were complete and devote themselves to the scientific , artistic and educational development of the region . |
| 20 | Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington . |
| 21 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 22 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 23 | Molly congratulated the 16 successful candidates at this year 's examination , presented certificates to those who were present and welcomed them to their first training day as qualified teachers . |
| 24 | But is it true that we learn just by virtue of being busy and having lots of experiences ? |
| 25 | It was held that the employers were in breach of their personal duty of care , as they should have told the plaintiff to test the sashes to see if they were loose and provided him with wedges . |
| 26 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 27 | That 's right and surround it with grass . |
| 28 | Banks have little desire to underwrite — it is risky and demands lots of precious capital . |
| 29 | Be pro-active and do something about it before it is mentioned . |
| 30 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |