Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 2 | What interests me is why you are so determined to find a scapegoat for your own inner fears . ’ |
| 3 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 4 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) The offeror 's solicitors are normally asked to undertake a review of all publicly available documents ( such as memoranda and articles of association , Loan Stock Trust Deeds , material contracts etc ) to elicit whether the takeover would constitute a default thereunder , trigger an early repayment of loans or the exercise of options or the documents could in some other way impact on the takeover . |
| 6 | This magnificent insect , as well as being rare , frequents the tops of oak trees , rarely descending to the forest glades , so binoculars are normally required to catch a sight of it . |
| 7 | It is probably obvious that comparability of unitization and assessment pattern , the frequency with which modules run ( often termly for popular Stage I modules ) , common requirements for students seeking the same qualification ( e.g. all honours students are normally required to complete a project ) , and central provision of course-wide performance data , all operate to facilitate monitoring and to reduce the burden it places upon staff . |
| 8 | The time will rapidly approach , however , no doubt just as interest rates are finally reduced to match a reduction in German interest rates ( if the pound remains attached formally or informally to the Deutschmark ) when the correct policy will be to raise interest rates . |
| 9 | When they are finally allowed to return a year and a half later , they discover that Xorandor and seventeen of his children are under close surveillance in different parts of the world , but that he has ‘ programmed ’ them to escape and neutralize nuclear missiles . |
| 10 | This recognition of the " blurred roles " of teachers and librarians , and of the importance of providing opportunities for those who wish to gain an understanding of and professional accreditation in both professions , has long been the case at school level in the USA , where school librarians are generally required to have a proportion of undergraduate and graduate credits in both disciplines ( the regulations vary from state to state ) , and the education system has long been flexible enough to meet the need without the provision of special courses ( though this has its disadvantage in that some students may therefore miss the opportunity to make direct cross-disciplinary comparisons under academic supervision ) . |
| 11 | The parts of the world — the Third World — which may suffer a loss , real or relative , as a result are generally estimated to have a debt of $1300 billion . |
| 12 | ‘ We are already pushed to complete a season if the weather is good . |
| 13 | The 6.00 news , this is Annie Webster , Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself , Paul Chandler reports : |
| 14 | Police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 15 | And police investigating a triple murder in Buckinghamshire are tonight trying to persuade a man hiding in nearby woods not to kill himself . |
| 16 | ‘ It is an absolute red herring and they are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill ’ — NEIL GRAY ( All Black manager in Australia ) after his team had been accused of excessively tough tactics in beating New South Wales ( 41–9 ) . |
| 17 | Try to learn to tell the difference between people who are just wanting to have a row and people who REALLY want to know more about Jesus . |
| 18 | As we go into the south we are just going to conduct a rent reduction , interest reduction campaign and we , we will then aim to consolidate that position and at some stage we will then move forward into land reform again , but to do that we will probably need a new land law because we 're recognizing the old agrarian land law is , is inappropriate , absolute egalitarianism is now dead in a sense of as erm it 's sort of saying that , that as Mao is arguing in May forty eight , May forty eight that absolute egalitarianism is wrong . |
| 19 | So she said you 're highly honoured to have a letter that long . |
| 20 | You 're maki making a an assumption that they 're obviously going to use a scale of |
| 21 | If they ask me Sir , they 're just trying to make a monkey out of you . |
| 22 | We 're not picking on you we 're just trying to get a conversation going here like , but it 's very hard when you just sit there and say nothing . |
| 23 | So you 're just going to compile a menu and you 're gon na hope that Joe public likes what you 've put on ? |
| 24 | We 're just going to have a fuck in the flowerbed . ’ |
| 25 | They 're still trying to establish a motive for the stabbing of Richard Miles , who was found dead in his garden . |
| 26 | ‘ At this rate , ’ grins Bill , ‘ we 're still going to have a theocracy here a hundred years from now . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You realize , ’ he said as they ascended , ‘ that if you 're ever tempted to breathe a word of what you see here the Society will eradicate you so quickly and so thoroughly your mother wo n't even know you existed ? ’ |
| 28 | Right we 're also going to give a mark for spelling and presentation . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're probably going to need a tetanus injection , ’ Rory told him . |
| 30 | ‘ Dammit , you 're probably going to get a chill . |