Example sentences of "[vb base] be [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another .
2 Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another .
3 The basic requirement is for a carry flag , a one-bit processor register which is set according to whether or not carry occurs out of the accumulator during an arithmetic operation ; the carry is out of the left-hand or next to the left-hand bit position , depending on whether the left-hand bit Position participates in multiple.length arithmetic or not .
4 Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India .
5 God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’
6 ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly .
7 We 've been away for a long time .
8 ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’
9 I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to .
10 ‘ We 've been apart for a long time .
11 Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year .
12 Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely .
13 Yolanda said : ‘ We 've been round to the new house and it is lovely .
14 I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time !
15 And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments
16 They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady .
17 While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back .
18 With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down .
19 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
20 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
21 The marketing drive is their latest attempt to commercialise space and earn hard currency , Until now any deals have been largely through the Soviet Space Agency , Glvacosmos .
22 The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time .
23 Whatever the outcome , CRII-RAD are highly critical of CEA in the affair and say that the official CEA figures have been well below the real plutonium levels at the site .
24 Clearly , vertical arrangements take a variety of forms , and they are an important feature of industrial society , indeed have been so since the Industrial Revolution .
25 For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers .
26 It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back .
27 If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present .
28 Table 5.8 Industrial dynamics of the eurobond market There have been 125 firms in the top 50 since 1975 , but of these only 14 ( 11% ) have been consistently in the top 50 ( see Table 5.9 ) .
29 The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates .
30 But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations .
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