Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , we are obviously dealing here with a new settlement of ve very extensive land take , I think that the there are certainly been quite a There 's been a lot of detailed work done by the various erm protagonists around around the table today about agricultural land quality . |
| 2 | IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp are apparently working together on a project to put Windows NT up on the PowerPC RISC . |
| 3 | But there are other recurring fingerprints — melodic motifs , rhythmic patterns , harmonic progressions — the secrets of which are perhaps known only to a handful of Shostakovich 's oldest and closest friends . |
| 4 | The growth cabinets are normally used only as a place to grow plants in a controlled way , measurements being made in the laboratory . |
| 5 | The following household tasks are generally assigned purely on a cultural basis . |
| 6 | Since action implies narrative , such figures are generally designed primarily for a profile view ( cf. above , p. 14 ) , while the ‘ repose-statue ’ ( the Kritian boy , Euenor 's Athena and their successors ) is meant to be seen from the front , like kouros and kore . |
| 7 | The students are already assessed independently by a larger number of staff than under traditional degree systems . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're only going away for a weekend , for heaven 's sake ! |
| 9 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 10 | Well when they 're just standing there in a vest and shorts then there is n't much else to look at is there , really ? |
| 11 | Friends for life , they 're now looking forward to a cruising holiday together in the Fiords — all expenses paid by Norwegian TV . |
| 12 | Choreographers should never assume that all in the audience have sufficient knowledge of the subject , theme and ideas which are possibly understood only by an exclusive coterie of friends . |
| 13 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 14 | At the planning stage , TV campaigns are usually indicated purely by a timespan and a TVR target . |
| 15 | As a rough guide base rates are usually kept within about a ¼ per cent margin either side of market rates , although it is possible to see base rates outside this ‘ guide ’ on occasion . |
| 16 | But the timber of woodlands always has a claim to be treated as a commercial crop , and though the making of a tree preservation order does not necessarily involve the owner in any financial loss ( isolated trees or groups of trees are usually planted expressly as an amenity ) , there are occasions when it does . |
| 17 | The seeds of life might have appeared spontaneously here or in space , or they might have been deliberately sent here by an extra-terrestrial intelligence . |
| 18 | ‘ The worshippers ’ he continued , ‘ are still regarded mainly as an audience but the house is manifestly a house of God ’ : Newman Hall intended it to be both a non-denominational centre and a ‘ Cathedral of Nonconformity ’ . |
| 19 | The Himalayas , whose rise began maybe 50 million years ago , are still climbing heavenwards at an average rate of seven millimetres per year , double the speed of their advance ten million years ago , though such rates are by no means constant . |
| 20 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 21 | That kiss , which had left her feeling totally shattered , had been clearly meant more as a punishment than a pleasure . |
| 22 | For besides the radical conservatism and traditionalism of Roger Scruton , politicians are also moved increasingly by a distrust of the universities . |
| 23 | These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study . |
| 24 | Moreover prisoners ' families are often regarded either as an essential bulwark against future recidivism of those in custody , or else helpless victims of circumstances in need of support . |
| 25 | Children 's communications are often expressed indirectly in a sort of ‘ code ’ . |
| 26 | Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper . |
| 27 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 28 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 29 | Organization Based on the MIT 's analysis of the plant since May 1991 , production teams are now formed differently with a new role for some operators . |
| 30 | It seems then ( possibly retarded by a cotyledonary stalk up to 3 m long ) , to be slowly moving downhill as a species . |