Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some organisations objectives are rather more like a woman shopping than a man shopping . |
| 2 | The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen . ’ |
| 3 | In music , the world 's top artists are most often with the world 's top record companies . |
| 4 | Those who succeed are much more in the image of representatives at the party conference than members of the old ‘ Establishment ’ . |
| 5 | The sexual and aggressive drives are much less under the guidance of rules . |
| 6 | No these numbers are basically nationally at the moment . |
| 7 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 8 | So in financial terms the local authorities are entirely virtually in the pocket , literally in the pocket of central government . |
| 9 | Detectives are so far at a loss to explain the reason for his death . |
| 10 | I do n't believe we are so far from the nomad as people in Europe believe . |
| 11 | ‘ Curry is great value and it is bound to have a big appeal for MPs because we are so often in a hurry . ’ |
| 12 | Such factors , however , are only partly under the control of government . |
| 13 | The mites are only just beneath the skin . |
| 14 | Like the majority of d-i-y models , it has an 82mm planing width , and a maximum cutting depth of 0.5mm. larger capacity machines which take off as much as 3mm per pass are more expensive , and are only really worth the money if you are a professional . |
| 15 | ‘ We are alone just for the moment . ’ |
| 16 | The position of the ontological idealist is that the " physical world " is merely a modification of non-physical reality , and consequently that , in the strictest sense , there are no non-mental phenomena ( although " mental " has to be taken here in a very broad sense ) ; whereas the classical dualist view is that there are two fundamentally distinct types of phenomena , one physical the other mental , which though irreducibly different are nevertheless ontologically on a par . |
| 17 | Although the carriers are normally fully under the control of the computer , there is the facility for the work group to give commands to the computer from one of 40 VDUs scattered throughout the plant . |
| 18 | and he replies : ( " Lady , I am not here by a trick ! |
| 19 | ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’ |
| 20 | Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not yet in the ESP business , sir . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not always at the village , ’ said Allen , ‘ sometimes I go east to Lincoln , or south to Peterborough , I have been as far as Lynn . |
| 23 | I am not really in a position to write this column . |
| 24 | If there are a lot of special conditions , they are generally there for a reason , and one has to try to work out why . |
| 25 | Games may be of the type where at the conclusion there is a specific winner , but for very young children the games are generally more in the form of an activity to experience and complete on an individual basis . |
| 26 | Even if the quarrel is not started by you at all , you will be less able to cope and respond appropriately if you are already slightly under the weather . |
| 27 | Right hon. and hon. Members are failing to remember in how many criminal trials it happens , often necessarily , that allegations are made by the prosecution or defence which are damaging to persons who are not immediately before the court . |
| 28 | The fact we are not ahead of the pack at the moment is a help because everyone is not talking about us winning it . ’ |
| 29 | could clearly make some kind of differentiation between a conglomerate paying V A T or some such tax whereas er the exception could be made to those people who are not clearly in a position to make er er to say that . |
| 30 | The fact remains , however , that the poor are not simply at the bottom of the stratification hierarchy , but are almost , in a sense , outside the margins of that hierarchy . |