Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cuts into the , it cuts into the we the weeks , I mean that sounds terrible , I 'll be , you 're only working a few days but it 's surprising the teaching days I do really , that really does cut into my time at home . |
| 32 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 33 | I get a lot of enjoyment from doing it , this is the biggest we 've been involved in and we 're all having a good time . |
| 34 | Well , I 'm sure that 's the right answer , but we 're already getting a little bit complicated in our vision of what 's happening . |
| 35 | They 're just taking a well-earned break from publicising the Lifeline Africa Appeal that 's just been launched by the Northampton-based charity , World Vision . |
| 36 | ‘ They 're just having a good time . ’ |
| 37 | At first , you 're just playing a fast game of Tetris , and then you 're suddenly confronted by a whole new set of liths ( the proper name for the shapes ) . |
| 38 | So we 're not actually changing your water tablets as such , we 're just knocking a little bit off and leaving you just on the Frusamide bit of your water tablet , okay ? |
| 39 | I mean we 're just giving a little bit of temporary relief in a situation which just seems to be getting worse and worse . |
| 40 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |
| 41 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 42 | They 're still doing a wee bit there . |
| 43 | What I 've you know when you 're like given a plain axis and I have to decide what to put on the sides I I 'm sometimes a bit |
| 44 | And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching . |
| 45 | They 're probably doing a Social Survey . |
| 46 | ‘ He 's very entrepreneurial , and was n't satisfied with just a holiday home , so we 're now developing a new hotel which promises to be — and I quote Stephen now — ‘ the best in the Caribbean ’ . ’ |
| 47 | They 're destined for thousands of people whose lives have been torn apart by conflict … who 're now facing a cruel winter . |
| 48 | As we 've mentioned before , Davie Phillips is now on Real [ a company with connections to New Deal UK ] , they 're now producing a no-pro deck called a Blank Stare . |
| 49 | If they want to come along on the day and enjoy themselves , that 's fine ; we 're even providing a bouncy castle , so children can bounce for the rainforests at the Banbury walk . |
| 50 | The festival 's boring ; we 're here telling a few stories … |
| 51 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've missed seeing Prague — but you 're otherwise having a good time , are n't you ? ’ |
| 52 | If you 're thinking of going to France this year you 'll be deli , you 'll be delighted to hear that we 're currently offering a three week inclusive holiday in the South of France for the price of two weeks , ask at your local A A shops for details of this and the free ferry crossing offer |
| 53 | So tonight you 're actually to do a little bit of discussion , and tonight , tomorrow morning , discussion with your colleague , to brief them in terms of what they need to do to fulfil that role . |
| 54 | As the Lord President will be aware , visitors to Wales are always given a warm welcome and a nice cup of tea , but coachloads of my constituents visiting the Houses of Parliament are cold-shouldered and can not obtain refreshments anywhere . |
| 55 | If we are ever to achieve a magnetically-confined plasma that is kept hot enough by thermonuclear reactions , then the confinement system must contain the electrically-charged alpha particles that are produced by the fusion of deuterium and tritium . |
| 56 | In these circumstances we are usually investigating a finite population and therefore a sampling frame ( i.e. a list of population members ) may well exist . |
| 57 | Smith , 29 , who has a year to run on his present deal , has had preliminary discussions with Mr Graham but Ken Friar , Arsenal 's managing director , said yesterday that he had not yet been formally offered a fresh contract . |
| 58 | If you are still using a standard radio system and only wish to execute the occasional loop or roll , then you can continue with your existing equipment , but you should realise that you are not going to be able to perform round loops or axial rolls . |
| 59 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 60 | The total stress ( we are still considering a two-dimensional flow for which the boundary layer equations apply ) . |