Example sentences of "[vb base] be [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the players who exert the most influence are not the worthy professionals nor the solid artisans , it is the daring wingers , the vicious defenders , the arrogant bastards and the uncontrollable wide-boys whose image is remembered by fans . |
| 2 | By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master . |
| 3 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 4 | There are very many ways of course to occupy the mind and the techniques we describe are only a few suggestions for practice . |
| 5 | It 's all looking much healthier now but time is still a major factor . |
| 6 | But time is now the one thing your father has n't got . ’ |
| 7 | Fisher 's study also suggested that recall was not a good measure of whether a road sign had been heeded . |
| 8 | Sociolinguists in this new , pluralist tradition , of which Rommetveit is perhaps an extreme exponent , have recently begun to challenge the ‘ mystification ’ of writing and of ‘ literal meaning ’ and to apply to literacy the more culturally relative , anthropological perspective that Rommetveit is proposing for language in general . |
| 9 | This will give you a better indication of the size and type of property , which we know is often an important factor in choosing a particular holiday . |
| 10 | Evaluation by a National Foundation for Educational Research ( NFER ) research team suggests that SNAP is potentially an effective approach to school-based inservice training , providing that strong management support is guaranteed by the headteacher and by senior LEA staff ( see Hegarty , Meeting Special Needs in Ordinary Schools , this series , for a brief summary ) . |
| 11 | We may decide let's be passive and move to battle decide is actually an important issue and wan na be aggressive and they actually bring in a relationship so important . |
| 12 | And for many people , make do and mend was always a harsh reality . |
| 13 | Most men like to wash their hair every day so shampoos like Vidal Sassoon 's Wash and Go are always a popular choice . |
| 14 | Because so often the questions that we ask are not the real issues they 're not the really important things . |
| 15 | — the prefix dis — of disobey is not a lexical unit because , although it is a semantic constituent , it is smaller than a word . |
| 16 | Thus it seems likely that the winter population and a substantial passage in February and March are largely composed of stellata ; passage of this species continues through April and May , and is then joined by a large movement of arctica ; immer is always a scarce species . |
| 17 | One context in which multiple-objective problems arise is when the objective function can be one of several possibilities , which one being determined by external factors beyond the control of the decision-maker . |
| 18 | cos she had her what we think is probably a final stroke , not too long ago . |
| 19 | Expand the brackets I think is probably the best thing . |
| 20 | You do n't get the good , really good light until you get across the water and out onto these hills and that 's where the the good light is in that erm top i third of the picture I think is where the real quality is . |
| 21 | Erm , having looked at all that , I think what the issue really boils down to essentially is the willingness of the County Council and I suppose the panel , having heard what er the debate , to accept what I think is really a modest level of flexibility er er requested by the District Council . |
| 22 | So that 's twenty two years go , and ecstasy , I think 's only the same thing reoccurring . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been here a long while , have n't you , Raech ? |
| 24 | No I 've been I 've been here a long time like |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been here a few times , ’ he admitted . |
| 26 | Erm what are the kind o obviously you 've been here a few months . |
| 27 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 28 | You 've been away a long time have n't you ? |
| 29 | " Oh I 've been 'ere a few times and I 've heard some bleedin' awful screams comin' out of that room . |
| 30 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |