Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 2 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 3 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 4 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 5 | And that would put into that policy the flexibility that we have been given orally today and which Selby and myself and I think Richmondshire I 'm not sure , were were erm seeking for a local plan level determination . |
| 6 | So , it is n't as if we 're saying , erm maths has always been taught quite well but we can do it better . |
| 7 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 8 | They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed . |
| 9 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 10 | ‘ It appears the husband had been socialising rather strongly and there was a typical Christmas domestic dispute . |
| 11 | Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought ! |
| 12 | By the time of the next cabinet reshuffle , the Prime Minister will probably announce that all the departments are operating so splendidly that there is no more need for it . |
| 13 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 14 | ‘ You and Maria Luisa are living together now and it suggests you were involved before . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It has hardly been seen so far and it really must go on public view . |
| 16 | Even if several mouse embryos are pushed together so that they fuse and this large mass transferred back into a mother a normal mouse will still develop . |
| 17 | It can be seen that comparisons between the sub-groups are made much easier if they have been sampled in this way ; there is no problem of having to cope with a preponderance of one group and a dearth of another if stratification has taken place beforehand . |
| 18 | After many years of National Trust-going , I have found that visits to historic properties are made much easier if you take the right equipment with you , and now I would n't dream of going anywhere without at least the following : |
| 19 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 20 | Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come |
| 21 | We 're getting there faster than we think . |
| 22 | We 're getting there faster than we think . |
| 23 | Okay well there 's something we talk about a lot on the Action Line they 're called Fast Forward and they 're a training agency . |
| 24 | When you go arter a job like that , if you 're doing as fast as what the machine will take it to do it properly , you ca n't force it . |
| 25 | You 're coming home tomorrow and I ca n't bear it . |
| 26 | We 're fighting much harder than they are . |
| 27 | An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally . |
| 28 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 29 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |
| 30 | In this garden annuals and bedding are used particularly well as they are dotted around perennials and shrubs , rather than grown together in a bedding scheme . |