Example sentences of "[adv] [pos pn] [noun] be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this very moment perhaps my father was fighting the monster , with Ernest dead at his feet . |
| 2 | The police presence seemed , if anything , to be even more oppressive than yesterday ( the Tory Party had become acutely aware just how much its security was costing the poll-tax payer ) ; perhaps there was trouble brewing . |
| 3 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 4 | Soon my feet were trampling the earth , |
| 5 | Less than two days since Paula 's death , and already her spirit was demanding the companionship of others on its journey . |
| 6 | Having referred to the apparently absolute rule , the tribunal concluded : ‘ Nevertheless our duty is to apply the tests laid down in the Act in Section 24 ( 6 ) and to take the Code of Practice into account . |
| 7 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 8 | Now her mother is thanking the doctors who saved her life . |
| 9 | Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record |
| 10 | But now his father was slackening the pace and looking round him . |
| 11 | But mainly your job is harnessing the power and you often do that by being calmer and more confident , rather than screaming ’ like a banshee ’ |
| 12 | Today its job is to drain the dregs from the battered Island , back to their houses in the south . |
| 13 | There was a sudden , violent movement in Gosse 's face — a movement somewhere between ecstasy and extreme agony — and then his hands were thrusting the blade deep into his belly . |
| 14 | When I got there our chaps were burying the bodies with bulldozers . |
| 15 | When she got down again her mother was setting the table for high tea ; Clara , mutely . |
| 16 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 17 | Afterwards my job is to phone the grandmothers who pass the news down the line . ’ |
| 18 | Since being appointed as Shropshire Youth rep , I have become increasingly aware of the lack of ‘ voice ’ that the youth of Shropshire seem to have , and therefore my job is to represent the youth of Shropshire so that at last we can be heard . |